history book

C926
concept

A history book is a written work that systematically records, analyzes, and interprets past events, societies, and developments to explain how they have shaped the present.

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All labels observed (49)

Label Occurrences
history book canonical 416
historical study 276
historical work 271

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: history book
Generated description
A history book is a written work that systematically records, analyzes, and interprets past events, societies, and developments to explain how they have shaped the present.

Instances (1,350)

Instance Via concept surface
Unparteiische Kirchen- und Ketzer-Historie church history
Maghazi of al-Waqidi historical work
The Story of Mankind —
The Pity of War —
The Cash Nexus —
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World —
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire —
Civilization: The West and the Rest —
The Ascent of Money —
My People: The Story of the Jews —
My Country: The Story of Modern Israel historical book
Goethe’s travel diaries primary historical source
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan 19th-century book
Primeval Man 19th-century book
The Unity of Nature 19th-century book
Life of De Witt Clinton 19th-century book
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials —
Letters of a Russian Traveller 18th-century book
L’Histoire de la poésie historical study
Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (with Dirichlet)
surface form: Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie
19th-century book
The Economics of Industry 19th-century book
History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds 19th-century book
The Manliness of Christ 19th-century book
Longitude historical nonfiction book
A More Perfect Heaven historical nonfiction book
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time —
To Father: The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste historical work
Memoirs of Joseph Holt historical narrative
The Writing of History —
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology historical study
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt —
The Nile: A Journey Downriver through Egypt’s Past and Present historical narrative
Topography of Thebes and General View of Egypt 19th-century book
Dalmatia and Montenegro historical work
Narrative of Sojourner Truth 19th-century book
Plantae Asiaticae Rariores 19th-century book
Up the Country 19th-century book
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.–Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama —
“The Story of Our Continent”
surface form: The Story of Our Continent
—
Black Folk Here and There historical study
Trial by Battle historical study
Trial by Fire —
Divided Houses —
Cursed Kings —
The Brothers historical nonfiction book
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America historical book
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II historical study
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War —
Japan in War and Peace historical study
Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum 19th-century book