history books
Written accounts yesterday
History books are written records of past events, especially those used for education or reference.
The phrase often implies established or conventional accounts: That battle changed the course of history books.
To say something is one for the history books means it's remarkable enough to be remembered.
The history books will judge suggests future assessment of present actions.
- university pressesScholarly publishing arms of colleges
- biographiesAccounts of people's lives
- monographsScholarly single-topic publications
- annalsYear-by-year historical account
- textbooksEducational reference volumes
primary sources · archives · memoir · records · chronicle · editorial process · narrative · Herodotus · chapters · turning the page · past · wars · timelines · scholars · ancient · research · compilation · antiquarian
- nonfictionbiography, autobiography, biographies, memoir, documentary
- coffee table bookscoffee table book, art book, photo book, hardcovers, monographs
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, letter, literature
- library materialsmagazines, newspapers, journals, periodicals, periodical
- museum shoppostcards, magnets, mugs, tote bags, keychains
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
history booksfiction
Imagined narrative work
fantasy novels · fairy tales · fables · works of fiction · novels
history bookscurrent events
Recent notable happenings
newspapers · breaking news · news reports · journalism · live coverage
history booksfuturism
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
prophecy · predictions · forecasts · speculative fiction · science fiction
history, books, bookish, historical, histories, historian, anachronistic, hagiography, ahistorical