historical account
Record of events
A historical account is a narrative or description of past events, typically based on research, documents, or testimony.
The phrase emphasizes that the telling aims for factual accuracy about what happened: The book provides a detailed historical account of the civil rights movement.
Historical accounts may be primary (eyewitness) or secondary (compiled from sources).
- annalsYear-by-year historical account
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- biographyWritten life account
- primary sourceUnmediated evidence from events
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
historiography · comparative analysis · official record · ethnography · eyewitness · narrative · turning point · textual analysis · travelogue · testimony · war diary · artifact · time capsule · political propaganda · cultural identity · secondary source · archive · dusty
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- historiesannals, historical record, historical narrative, historiography, historical text
- Ancient JudeaSecond Temple, Judea, Jerusalem, Masada, Herod the Great
- Grand Tourgrand tour, aristocrats, aristocrat, nobleman, tutors
- scholarly workstreatises, dissertation, dissertations, journal article, theses
historical accountmyth
Traditional explanatory tale
legend · folklore · fairy tale · fable · tall tale
historical accountprophecy
Foretelling of future events
prediction · forecast · futurology · prognostication · breaking news
historical accountfiction
Imagined narrative work
novel · creative writing · fantasy literature · romance · adventure story