history book
Chronicle of events
A history book is a book about historical events, people, or periods.
The term often implies a traditional or authoritative account: It's one for the history books means an event is significant enough to be recorded.
You can't rewrite the history books suggests the past is fixed.
In classrooms, history books are standard textbooks covering national or world history.
- annalsYear-by-year historical account
- schoolbookEducational classroom volume
- required readingAssigned essential literature
- chronicleOrdered historical record
- textbookAcademic subject manual
accounts · turning point · oral tradition · biography · great men · cultural heritage · social movements · primary source · world wars · colonialism · ancient civilizations · old world · past · lesson learned · revolutions · annotated edition · archive · pages
- historieschronicle, annals, biography, autobiography, memoir
- history mediadocumentary, docuseries, period film, war film, archive footage
- nonfictionbiography, autobiography, biographies, memoir, documentary
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, letter, literature
- textbookstextbook, textbooks, schoolbooks, math textbook, science textbook
- coffee table bookscoffee table books, art books, photography books, hardcovers, monographs
history booknovel
New and unusual
fiction · fantasy novel · work of fiction · fairy tale · myth
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