History

Historians, after all, like sequence. We like causes and effects, clear change over time, and neat narratives that we can mold into compelling stories.

We mostly don't see the job as "complicating" the past but rather to explain it, to make its complications clearer and more conclusive. Put differently, we like answers. The past is a problem and the tools of history allow us to seek explanations as to why. History empowers us to answer these questions.