How do historians learn about the past

You might be wondering how historians study the past, if so you found the write blog. Historians use something called the Historical Method, there are five steps to it. The steps are; To gather, categorize, evaluate, interpret, and share. The first one which is gather, they have find many secondary and primary sources. A primary source is a source that is made during or right after an event, a secondary source is made by someone  who studied that event. After that they categorize written and non-written sources, written sources are sources that are written, and non-written sources are not written, there are only five types of them. Next they have to evaluate their sources, a good way to do that is to use the five W's, who, what, where, when, and why. Following that, they interpret their information that they have found. Lastly, they share their theories with others. That is how historians learn about the past.