The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be "All things are made of atoms." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wanted them to know both sides of their history and become the fully rounded human beings they were destined to be. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I first saw that list, given to me in history class, there were a few names I didn’t recognize. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For four months I attended lectures on geography and history and politics. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Keeping in mind all those old ladies who have passed on, today is the eve before we honor the first English child born in America—Virginia Dare in 1587. Don’t forget your history,” she murmured. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In all its history, I think it was Coalwood’s best moment, even though my dad lost to the union, and my mom was forced to stay a little longer in the hills. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were broken, an almost unrecognizable bunch of mourners held together by habit and grief and a shared history of survival. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Frank guessed they didn’t know or care about the history of this river. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The dude who teaches art history is cool. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In 1930, Haile Selassie became emperor and the shaping force of contemporary Ethiopian history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their children are taught the history of the Empire with a kind of disclaimer hanging over the whole thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In short, I acknowledge that it is much more difficult to understand human history than to understand problems in fields of science where history is unimportant and where fewer individual variables operate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that was not the way history happened. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I would sit, galvanized, hearing what I then accepted from Mr. Muhammad’s own mouth as being the true history of our religion, the true religion for the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes crosses into the United States in one of the largest immigrant waves in the country’s history. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the little bit of family history Vonetta had first recited spun itself into a long, winding yarn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Which is why we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life—or change the whole world!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The knowledge, the history, the culture—it drew them like magnets. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I just think it’s a simplistic comparison to make. You need to understand a bit more history,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Don’t you know that if you play with me, you certainly will go down in history because you’ve got to kill me?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily it was seen only once a year, at the time when the village gathered to hear the Ruin Song, the lengthy history of their people. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another interpretation of the US origin myth found in some history books is the idea that relations between the Native people and the European Americans should be viewed as a cultural conflict. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The discoveries once again fractured the consensus about the early American history, miring it in dispute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It applies to everything in the Universe, and it does so at all times in the history of the Universe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before the voyage, Charles had been a typical natural history collector. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t be able to ask that without him asking about my history and how I was caught. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve studied pages upon pages of the history of a single stone.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. A name helps to define who we are. It reminds us of our history.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“His effect on world history was incalculable, greater than that of kings & captains,” Wouk wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“When Mrs. Roosevelt spoke at the opening of the school she told the students to learn their history or they’d be ‘doomed to dust’ like one of the Lost Worlds.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even the glimmer of hope he felt when they finally pulled into the parking lot required a history he didn’t want to tell. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If something has a place in history, it’s historic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It creates a sense of place, a sense of personal history. Pleasure, even, Cadence. Have you ever heard of pleasure?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The history of our past voyages of discovery suggests that Voyager and other spacecraft reconnaissance missions will revolutionize our knowledge of this place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fifth-grade history we had spent a lot of time worrying about the flooded river deltas of the ancient world. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I didn’t miss that whole history lesson, she said, mocking him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“So, David, is that one of the things you thought about all those years, when you imagined the Smoke being invaded? Did you ever wonder what would turn the cities into history?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We have to get together this week. I really need a good grade in history.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then the other one, the one that taught history and government, said they'd better be running along. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Despite family history, I feel drawn to Turkey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She does not want to be one of those middle-aged women who thinks of nothing but her own painful history. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before we turn to the evidence from archaeology, let us consider the evidence of Japanese origins from biology, linguistics, early portraits, and recorded history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For all of our history, there has been the fear, or hope, that there might be life beyond the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he traced the prison’s history, he saw progress, the “puritanical” practice of the nineteenth century evolving into the “more enlightened social thought” of the twentieth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got a real live piece of history standing in front of us. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I have my own history—I've trembled with the awareness of some other presence, something, someone, who knows my name. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This may seem like a discouraging setback in our attempt to understand the course of history, since technology has undoubtedly been one of history’s strongest forces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it's the longest day in the history of long days. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

While researching the murders, I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away, and not long after we spoke, I learned that Martha had died from heart failure. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I want to write this down, that the revolution is like a merry-go-round, history always being made somewhere. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Given this, it is important to remember music education’s history, origin and deep roots in the American education experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Ah! Here it is! The art history department. It’s in Goethals Hall.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was freshman year for a history project. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

That week, which included the hottest three-day period in the nation’s history, the heat would kill three thousand Americans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Let’s now turn to the history of Bill Gates. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I will be officially recognized in the annals of German history...oh my...quite a lot of movement. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My motive for investigating these geographic differences in human societies is not to celebrate one type of society over another but simply to understand what happened in history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Were these related to the same scar of history? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Sure. You can study your history books and help out with chores,” she said matter-of-factly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s some crazy project. We start with home. End up talking about the two towers in Manhattan. Something about history.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think about all the women artists throughout history who managed to paint despite the odds against them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today you get an opportunity few are given — today you get to change history—to change time itself. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

That was history; this campaign was taking place before my own eyes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that Smith had a history of giving his horse moonlight workouts, the newsmen first tried showing up at ungodly hours of the morning. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Causey was the commanding officer of squadron 234, which had the reputation and history of being one of the best F-8 squadrons in the Marine Corps for the past five years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a single magician in your family history.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the purpose of all of them was to arrest progress and freeze history at a chosen moment. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In 1687 Boyle’s friend David Abercromby announced his intention of writing a treatise which would be a history of discovery through the ages—the book that Polydore Vergil had failed to write. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From the point of view of future history, this kind, we’ll be invisible. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even copy out many of the passages on history. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The journey of the first humans to Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus’ journey to America or the Apollo 11 expedition to the moon. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning, John the producer called and said it’s one of the most-watched interviews in the network’s history. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“We can just give them a new history class. One that teaches facts rather than propaganda.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In this long history of accelerating development, one can single out two especially significant jumps. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes just a folded map, or a paper menu from a restaurant with an interesting history. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I was literally carrying on my back the history, culture, and heritage of my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most beautiful night in the history of the capital. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similar epidemics marked the histories of Tonga, Hawaii, and other Pacific islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This flow of envy and thus, of power, is, for the first time in the history of geeks, flowing in the other direction ... breaking what has been the status quo for many years. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Agricultural Revolution is one of the most controversial events in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other is a short history of England and do I want it? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They may have had a hard row of it, but even those kids from other countries knew more about the history of our nation than I did. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

We all sit around the kitchen table, but it’s the quietest dinner in Carter family history. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Now, listen, my boy,” Neylan rejoined, launching into a two-hour monologue about the history of the oath, the duplicity of Robert Sproul, and the faculty’s disrespect for the board of regents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how yet—but the towers falling is my history, too. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, Adams possessed a congenital affinity for deconstructed interpretations of history, of his own life, indeed of practically everything. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If she didn’t, I saw no point in telling her my own private history. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The spread of writing has occurred by either of two contrasting methods, which find parallels throughout the history of technology and ideas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was one of the most gallant retreats in all history. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew little and less of Dome or its history, if truth be told. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

James pored over the maps in his history book, trying to think out where the treasure might be. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham was approaching that prime meridian of inebriation that his wife, his sons, and his daughters, based on a grievously embattled history, had come to fear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran a hand along the few feet of personal history, her brief chronicle of taste. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her brother jumped in, eager to give the rundown of their moving history. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But before I could actually say it, the bell rang and it was off to history class, where I had to sit with it all. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In 1958 he’d made history as the driving force behind the first ascent of Hidden Peak, a 26,470-foot mountain in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan—the highest first ascent ever achieved by American climbers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He bought a program, the kind you can buy in London theaters that’s full of photographs and gives a history of the production. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But in the history of Nature, the record is clear. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principal tracked me down in history class and ordered me out into the hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a history lesson and a chess tutorial, but mainly it was an amazing feat of memory. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until my book was finished and about to come out that I actually went to the library and read histories of that battle for myself. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The other kids had history—they’d been in the same class the year before, or soccer league, or Sunday school, or Girl Scouts, or had grown up on the same street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Evolutionary biologists have recently been developing ever more sophisticated methods for drawing conclusions from comparisons of different plants and animals of known evolutionary histories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Politics class was actually just the familiar Communist Party history. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I responded that it was always unacceptable to live in degrading conditions and that political prisoners throughout history had considered it part of their duty to fight to improve prison conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a history with him coming into my bedroom. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The other reason I wasn't down at the game was because I was on my way to say good-by to old Spencer, my history teacher. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

For years I'd wanted to implement a project to change the way we talk about racial history and contextualize contemporary race issues. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He continues, “Anyway, if something like that had happened in our history, the Bureau would know about it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In history we learned about the Arts and Crafts movement, and there were all these ideas I liked. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I learned afterward that I’d made history by becoming the first American woman ever to win gold in that event at the Olympics. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There’s some interesting local history of witchcraft here, too. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Therefore, as I have said, a new prince in a new principality has always instituted an army, and the history books are filled with such examples. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not the first such arrangement in history, though the shape it’s taken is not the usual one. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heading home on the bus every day, people would be pulling flat shiny bags out of their history books like crazy and passing them to Cletus in the backseat. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like cultural idiosyncrasies, individual idiosyncrasies throw wild cards into the course of history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would include a beautiful mosque, school, library, and hospital, and a museum documenting the black man’s glorious history. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people were within earshot, they engaged in first- or second-date conversations, making up past histories for themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I had said I couldn’t do anything to change history. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

On its website, a history of the company makes no mention of lead–or indeed of Thomas Midgley–but simply refers to the original product as containing "a certain combination of chemicals." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I was going to mix up something special to repay her for the denture rinse but I’ll give you some history instead.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A good illustration of the histories of trial and error involved is furnished by the development of gunpowder and gasoline from raw materials. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, to talk about the negative sections and aspects of Baltimore without talking about its strengths, its history, and its opportunities would be inaccurate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to relay all that history. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And it is a history of the paradoxes posed by an innocent-looking number, rattling even this century’s brightest minds and threatening to unravel the whole framework of scientific thought. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the parched Atacama Desert, the Chinchorro created history’s first mummies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To this day, Handel’s music is cherished with unqualified, familial warmth by all Western musicians, belonging not to one nation’s musical history but to all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s as if history can be no more than a mirror tipped up to show each of us exactly what we already knew. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But history is written by the victors, and Glorious Revolution sounds so much better than Invasion if you want to keep the populace happy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I first saw that picture in the daily digital news feed our history teacher made us subscribe to, and I think it might be the loneliest picture I’ve ever seen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This is a history of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She weathered the buffets of history with resilience—but she weathered the buffets of heredity with something more than resilience: a grace that we, as her descendants, can only hope to emulate. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Though these ordinary, everyday, hardworking people might not be recorded in history books, they strove to create the change America needed. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The currents of history spun around him and came into focus, and he knew what had caused them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I guess Buddy never read much history, because his mouth stiffened. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Foaly. Don’t act so surprised. I have more successful recons under my belt than any officer in history. Plus I did my basic training in Ireland. Back in the top hat and shillelagh days.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Marines have lost more than ears in their long history. But still they come, always attacking, always forging ahead, driving forward without regard to life or limb.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for history to remember. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Today I went on a field trip to New York to the natural history museum. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blending, in fact, was everything—a way to feel like myself, to remain Michelle Robinson from the South Side inside this larger sweep of history. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Free and clear of your family history. It’s a chance at life.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With some digging, we could get a broad geological history. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer said that there was a long history of research into the concept of switching costs, the time it takes to refocus after moving from one mental task to the next. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In history, Mr. Pape does an interesting exam review period, where he puts the desks in a rectangular formation with one historical war image on each desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As Loretta steers her around Dupont Circle and down Massachusetts Avenue, Annabelle feels the wind, the force, the guiding light, the history, the story, the exhaustion and the grief and the triumph of the crossing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In fact at the present rate of decline this Saturday will probably be the end of your season and then you will join the 1986 team in history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first class after homeroom is American history. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel small, like a blip on the history of this little pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even if they were part of our family history. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Someone who could see the letter—history—the world—from a different point of view. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each can feel itself the natural rulers of all Earth, and each has a history of humiliation by the North, for which it can be human enough to wish a senseless revenge. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Only four months had passed since his thirteenth birthday and Bobby had become the youngest chess master in history and one of the strongest young players in the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Today’s lecture was on presidential sex scandals through history, and he texts Nora: numbers on one of us getting involved in a sex scandal before the end of second term? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was about the same size and shape as Mendel’s garden—and in time it would become an equally iconic site in the history of genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Kneeling near the lamp, Ash pulled out volumes on history and trade regulations, old account books, and a small, cloth-bound journal written in a fine hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warily his mind dismissed one question after another, and then finally he asked: ‘If you could choose the time in history you could have lived, what era would you choose?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory, who was a descendant of slaves that had worked for the Cullinans, told me her history. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first mathematical proofs in history was about the incommensurability/irrationality of the square’s diagonal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To make things worse, he had history with Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“This is like a real moment in history, Quinn,” she said, not yelling, not shouting out over the crowd, but almost shyly, like she was sharing something that meant the whole world to her. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pa tries to make my brothers understand the history of politics in Cambodia. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drawing his last game and coming in sixth, Bobby Fischer became the youngest chess player ever to qualify to play in the Candidates tournament, and the youngest international grandmaster in the history of the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I began to feel that something more than a national trophy case was needed if I was to be truly free, and for that I have the history department of Howard University to thank. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Please. You ate more sugar than any kid in history, and you still got pearly whites, don’tcha? Just one cavity your entire life.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And just like that, it’s over—the greatest student government project in the history of school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The train to Kielce is a normal passenger train, a strange contrast to our history on the railroad. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By day’s end there was every indication that Chicago’s fair would become the most heavily attended entertainment in the history of the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

All this history seems both plausible and creditable, good reading for doctors, but there is always that other leech, the worm. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our city has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

While those differences constitute the most basic fact of world history, the reasons for them remain uncertain and controversial. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All those Hebrew words and sounds seemed so alien, and I had so much history and tradition to catch up on. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about everything, about the whole history of the world and all its racism and the unfairness of all of it.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“From the outset, Governor,” Katzenbach said, “all of us have known that the final chapter of this history will be the admission of these students.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many words convey subtle shades of meaning, provide glimpses into the history of the language, conform to elegant principles of assembly, or enliven prose with distinctive imagery, sound, and rhythm. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The history of colored people in South Africa is, in this respect, worse than the history of black people in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“About the history of the theatre . . . and the actors who performed here. Do you know anything about that?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“She did not want to talk about the Holocaust,” Jack said, “so I did not push her. But I wish I had gotten more family history from her before she died. So much is lost.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And if history had taught any lessons it was that humans couldn’t get along with anyone, even themselves. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I used to tell Marcus that all the history of London is right here. These aren’t rocks and stones beneath your feet, you know. They’re what is left of the city over thousands of years.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It set the precedents, established in palpable fact what the Constitution had only outlined in purposely ambiguous theory, thereby opening up and closing off options for all the history that followed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Will you be writing about our country, history perhaps? Economics?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she didn’t have many ideas; but then, she was younger and hadn’t had a chance to learn much about ancient history. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas was over the moon when it came to American history. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I went into this investigation imagining history to be a unified narrative, free of debate, which, once uncovered, would simply verify everything I had always suspected. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My homework swims in front of my closed eyes—the Intro to Wall Street stock-picking game, the Inca history paper, the ding-dong math test—they appear as if on a gravestone. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Clubs at Amsterdam Heights are about learning our history.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I began first telling my black brother inmates about the glorious history of the black man—things they never had dreamed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will be, I am sure, a great history. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When this story goes out into the world, I may become the most famous hermaphrodite in history. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Scientific Revolution, which got under way only 500 years ago, may well end history and start something completely different. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talks about American history, If the American farmer, with flintlock and musket, could wrest from the English a continent, surely we, warriors ever, can recover our island. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Such a match evoked the drama of some of history’s great rivalries—clashes such as Mozart vs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the fourth time I’ve had to sit through my childhood medical history and my current issues. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered something he’d told me a long time ago, when he first gave me the magic sword: It has a long and tragic history, which we need not go into. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A tall, thick-lipped boy who had trailed Red in pursuit of Ben caught the history book full in the face, his nose splitting like an overripe piece of fruit, blood spouting down his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The portions of our history you have related to him are incomprehensible,” said Dr. Trefusis. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Here is Harry Hansen’s view, from his magisterial history, The Civil War: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In each new country, I would initially seal myself away in our hotel familiarizing myself with information about the country’s policies, history, and leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about this through history and all of math class. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like people in history didn’t have whipped cream until a company started selling canisters that squirt out runny foam. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t want to be some manager of a few crack houses. I wanna be part of history.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

That group of young geniuses came to be known as the “Termites,” and they were the subjects of what would become one of the most famous psychological studies in history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And not for the last time in musical history, ‘art music’, the music of the wealthy, educated and privileged, was to be saved from itself by popular, or folk song, traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Each history in the sum over histories will describe not only the space-time but everything in it as well, including any complicated organisms like human beings who can observe the history of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only going to be the greatest boxing match in the history of the world: our favorite, Joe Louis, going up against the heavyweight champion of the world, Jim Braddock. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I be busy meanwhile reading my short history of England and finding out all about their perfidy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“There is always a reason. A history. A wound.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The history of Winston Churchill that Myron is working his way through at night at the hookups sits on the coffee table. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Bible has much to teach, yet professors must use it judiciously, supplementing it with other sources, when they teach ancient Middle Eastern history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It will be based on an event in American history that America would rather forget. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ninety-one years is a long time to live—there’s a lot of history in those boxes, and you never know what you’ll find. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

With a few hours to kill before his meeting with Fuchs, he strolled through a local history museum. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and I had history class together and exchanged pleasantries sometimes, but he couldn’t even look at me this morning. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s their history! We might be over here now, but by God, our people are over there.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Do you have a history of all those years? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To understand our nature, history and psychology, we must get inside the heads of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up Pauline Hawthorne in the card catalog and found a few books on art history. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not afraid, Mami. I’m not scared of my power. I’m not ashamed of what I got. Not ashamed of my history, and I’m not ashamed of Abuela. You hear me?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Wegener investigated the many plant and fossil anomalies that did not fit comfortably into the standard model of Earth history and realized that very little of it made sense if conventionally interpreted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Portrayed in countless U.S. history books and Hollywood westerns, the Indians of the Great Plains are the most familiar to nonscholars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here is how one history of the period describes the advent of time-sharing: This was not just a revolution. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But Malala is definitely a part of history, and an important person who shares my background. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“These are marvelous, undoubtedly the most delicious cookies I have ever tasted in the entire history of my life,” Quentin told her after a nibble. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Math and English and biology and chemistry and history and sports. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“America,” historian Daniel Okrent has stated, “had been awash in drink almost from the start—wading hip-deep in it, swimming in it, at various times in its history nearly drowning in it.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Unless he’s the greatest actor in history, I totally believe that he’s just found this out about himself. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had to be the best-behaved busload of kids in the history of C Average Middle School. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I looked up from the paper on women suffragettes I was writing for history and held my breath. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them had spent their lives studying the history of goblin-elf conflicts. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

To learn early American history, for example, students dressed in costumes of the era and were taught how to spin yarn, hook rugs, and use quill pens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to learn by marching down history’s bloody road. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” said Roy, “every day we’ve been reading about regular people, ordinary Americans who made history ’cause they got up and fought for something they believed in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At most, they might have stayed in custody until age twenty-five or older, if their institutional history or juvenile detention record suggested that they were still a threat to public safety. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Was this the only true history of the times, a mood blared by trumpets, trombones, saxophones and drums, a song with turgid, inadequate words? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely you must feel some obligation, for the sake of history...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And was it usual—I’m only quoting what I’ve read in history books—was it usual for these people and their servants to push you off the pavement into the gutter?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that history was our way of keeping score, since the points didn’t matter, but I couldn’t just ignore it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My sister Princesse would give an introduction to the performance, describing our history. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was a history book, and the index was full of names of people and places. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No one in history has ever conquered the Russians. Now how many more people will have to die?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d video her doing something silly like riding her bike or baking a mud pie or something, but it always felt so vital to me. Like I was recording a piece of history.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The worst music and the worst hair in the history of the human race—that’s no lie.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The reporter next asks Imam Malik questions about the history of the Islamic Center, and his voice shakes as he answers. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When he was young, he was a world-class tennis player, and over the past fifty years, he has coached and counseled and known many of the greatest tennis players in the history of the game. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

All had normal medical histories before the chemicals they were using boomeranged and struck them down. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could see that she was beside herself with joy over finding a legitimate cause, a bona fide case history, a new movement. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could we make events turn out differently from what the history books assert? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Riddle, he understood that Seabiscuit had to conquer War Admiral on the track to be deemed his superior in the championship voting and in history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windmills, art, their shared history—they still have a lot in common. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The first day began with a complete medical and aviation history, followed by a comprehensive check-up by an internist or flight surgeon. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then we could have ordered the Inca army to capture the gold-crazed conquistadors and saved the Inca civilization, and history would have been different. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it a great pity you have to be reading all about England after all they did to us, that there isn’t a history of Ireland to be had in this hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She also did a quick check of the local history shelf before they left, hoping to find something about the Washingtons or the Allens, but she didn’t see any books related to them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And like the heroes portrayed in the history books, these new heroes were men. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the dizzying sequence of events that comprises the political history of the 1790s, the full range of their disagreement was exposed and their different agenda for the United States collided head-on. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His enquiry into the prehistory of the idea of the circulation of the blood was the beginning of the history of science as a learned enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For Booth, this was his final and greatest performance, not just for the small audience of soldiers at Garrett’s barn, but also for history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I know more of Estella’s history than even you do,” said I. “I know her father too.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I picture you happy, I see you with your own apartment somewhere outside of the palace and a desk where you can write anthologies of queer history. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This chapter will look at the history of multiculturalism and diversity education, the field of ethnomusicology, and strategies for teaching using multicultural music aesthetics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Its rolling periods, its fine orotundities, its balanced pairs, and its vivid sense of how history pivoted on this moment, on these men ... it was a tour de force. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The best fish in the history of the world! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

None of our ancestors, as far as I could tell from our distorted history, had ever been shackled and considered chattel, bred and traded like cattle, as the ancestors of the American black had been. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to her history of the alphabet, she started another book—a manual on code breaking for teens. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Though Corcoran had no known history of drug abuse, sources close to the boy say that the normally extroverted Corcoran had become moody and withdrawn in the months prior to the disappearance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I found a compact paperback history of slavery in America that might be useful. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nineteenth-century authors tended to interpret history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s the first time in our history that we ever ran, and when we ran we lost. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Cape Town saw one of the biggest antipass demonstrations in the history of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just put that behind you. If you worry about it, it’s gonna screw you up. It’s history.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Owning, building, acquiring—that was his life, his future, his present, and all the history he knew. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No note is made in the history at that time, or at the six weeks’ return visit that there is any abnormality of the cervix.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jose sort of spun Grace away, setting her down on her feet so hard that her teeth rattled together, and then Grace was gone, leaving her backpack, Adam, Max, and U.S. history class behind. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She remembered the cruelty of the 1986 season, her husband’s first, when Odessa was going through the worst economic crisis in its history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They will be instructed in the false history that I myself will be given after the reset procedure. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

What we got, however, was an elaborate disquisition on the history and architecture of the Capitol and a look at the official china patterns produced for the Senate, followed by a polite and chitchatty lunch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As a result, despite one of the great education explosions in modern history, economic mobility—moving from one income group to another over the course of a lifetime—has stopped rising, researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I would like to let the record show that Ali and Shohreh probably had the most amicable divorce in the history of divorces. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Cognitive Revolution is accordingly the point when history declared its independence from biology. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the thirty-seventh time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this nation.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We had to record oral histories from senior citizens in a retirement home. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At many moments in history, states have arisen independently—or, as cultural anthropologists say, “pristinely,” that is, in the absence of any preexisting surrounding states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The public would see this room, I supposed, and Frith, if he showed them round, would know the history of the pictures on the wall, and the period of the furniture. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the history of the OASIS, there was no record of any avatar ever acquiring an extra life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In history class we break up into our groups. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Natural history, the subject that gripped Darwin at Cambridge, was not particularly poised to solve Herschel’s “mystery of mysteries.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Since Shin had been taught next to nothing in Camp 14, a radically revised history of the Korean Peninsula was not meaningful to him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The development is described in history books as regrettable but predictable, given the virulent racism that gripped the South and the political dynamics of the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thus, the difficulties historians face in establishing cause-and-effect relations in the history of human societies are broadly similar to the difficulties facing astronomers, climatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geologists, and paleontologists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to describe what happened next—except to say that it is a moment that occurs uniquely in the histories of refugees. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I adore the history of the arts, especially when it concerns writers, poets and painters; musicians may come later. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

One by one they flicker and vanish, phantoms of a different history. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was a little too drifty in school so she thought it was a good idea that I read more books, and she knew I liked history and adventure stories. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time that many people had realized how murky and changeable the waters of history can be. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn't I have been the first Iranian in the history of the world born with a button nose? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although Native historians and scholars have written at length about how events in US history have impacted Indigenous peoples, their perspectives are not often included in history courses. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the history of Hopkins Hospital certainly isn’t pristine when it comes to black patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The angels believed and the people agreed that there was a good amount of proper and deserved shame in history and some things were just never going to be things to be proud of. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But that's not how the conversation went in my history group. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe Mr. Milton got all loud at me in history? I was about to go off on him!” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He saw her just as he had seen her in history class, a pencil between her teeth, one hand laid against the nape of her neck, lost behind her effusive hair. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our 1,600 ships were the largest armada in history, and the number of our troops was even bigger than the force that landed on the beaches of Normandy in Europe. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All of those decades—over a century!—of history. When you stood on the courtyard in the rain, you felt like the gods were singing in the heavens.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“This is a time in American history,” I wrote one day, “when people say nothing. People are murdered, and no one says, ‘This is wrong’ or does anything about it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as she was cracking the spine of yet another dusty history, Ophie would catch movement out of the corner of her eye, and there would be the ghost boy standing in the doorway. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Reusable spacecraft, named after important ships in history, took people into space to explore, investigate, and build. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the biggest in Klan history, he said, and he expected 10,000 Klansmen to be there—in their robes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If ever an enterprise needed to be illuminated with a sense of the history and meaning of the landscape, it is this. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was a shy man, interested only in natural history, who had never fought with anybody in his life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By visiting them we could truly understand how history works; history could become an experimental science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages—the first permanent settlements in history, long predating the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Courses in English, French, math and history offered at any hour of the day or night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The greatest in thirty-five thousand years of human history, Mr. Scoresby. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day in history class, my teacher talked about America’s history of slavery. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

None of this will stop me from telling much of my version of the history of science in terms of the people involved, including Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

What transpired over the next several minutes turned out to be one of the great varsity races in the history of the Cal-Washington rivalry. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Long before the first race, the track was filled well beyond capacity with the largest attendance in its history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doodle in history while Mr. Pape reviews points of view. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They spoke of the history of Village, how each of them there had fled poverty and cruelty and been welcomed at this new place that had taken them in. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Their internment starting in 1942 and spanning the war represented one of the darkest periods in American history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

More than any great leader in American history before or since, he was accustomed to getting his way, and equally accustomed to having history prove him right. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It did this by starting a number of projects, including state histories. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For now, she busied herself with simply sleeping on silk, eating on gold and being the single most feared and admired woman in Florinese history. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two recent popular books on the history of the dating of Earth actually manage to misspell his name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Because now that I’ve been reminded of Hiroshima I don’t think the shelter should be fake. See, Miss Volker has changed my mind already. Her talk of history has me fearing the future!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of those arrested for drug crimes are not charged with serious offenses, and most of the people in state prison on drug charges have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My own interest in history had early roots and was encouraged by my father. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other kids had history—they’d been in the same class the year before, or soccer league, or Sunday school, or Girl Scouts, or had grown up on the same street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I read some history further on: Now, in 1760, Dresden underwent siege by the Prussians. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their place were depictions of African history: a prince and princess strolling beside a crystal river; a conclave of black scholars debating in an outdoor forum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As she made that comment a history class that met a few yards down the hall did not have a teacher. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Cap said the book had the whole history of everything inside it,” Meeks said, scratching his head. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they have some way of letting their customers get into those bins. I’m sure I’m not the first person in history to have locked a key inside.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he asked for permission to publish articles about the early history of code breaking, the NSA forbade him to do any such thing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They swapped stories of their nations’ great books and made plans to trade old manuscripts one day, so they could better understand the history of their two races a thousand years before. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The empire was as populous, rich, and well organized as any in history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I began, finishing off a drink of water from my sippy cup, “everyone says history repeats itself, but I did not expect it to be so literal.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I take out my history book and notebooks and organize them in my backpack. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He explained to them that history was like an old house at night. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of history, sport has played a dynamic role in shaping cultural discourse. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It might seem a marriage made in heaven, but there were still hurdles to be overcome before Kepler could achieve the breakthrough that made him a key figure in the history of science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He pointed out various curiosities and was well versed in the history of the region. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not just our personal history that gets mangled. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Still," I said, "there's your universe, and that drip-drop upon the water you hear is all the history you've made, all you're going to make. Now laugh, you scientists. Let's hear you laugh!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I own half his genes, and all of his history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Army saddled him with writing an official account of their wartime code and cipher operations—“all the histories and data and things—the final say.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“A national history prize. You didn’t know about this?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Despite all the convulsions of history, the Onondaga have kept the council fire burning for Haudenosaunee to this day. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And just as Pop Pop predicts, this is the year black women make history at the Miss America pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

All social studies is is a stupid way to say "history." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

How he came to command the locomotive was a story, but now was not the time for the unlikely histories of colored boys. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Allyssa and her partner came in first in the state’s history day in the performance category. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In this approach, a particle does not have just a single history, as it would in a classical theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After learning about this sad history I again telephoned Francis Black. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d become the first person in history to hit someone through a phone. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Even though I had a history in that house, it didn’t matter. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When I’m done, Captain Keelson sighs and goes, “He’s correct, you know, Amos. There’s very little we can do. It’s an awkward situation. Big Skiff and Jack Croft have a history. Best not to meddle.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She shares a piece of my history I never knew—that Lolo and Lola didn’t want her and Dad to get married. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“He kept saying how we are part of history. How this is part of history.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I said a positive contribution to history or society.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

That was the way he knew what history he remembered. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, Hawaiian history was repeatedly punctuated by revolts against repressive chiefs, usually led by younger brothers promising less oppression. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This African patriot had helped found the organization in 1912, and casting my vote near his grave site brought history full circle, for the mission he began eighty-two years before was about to be achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Jefferson also had a national vision and a firm conviction about where American history was headed, or at least where it ought to be headed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Sure. He was in my art history class. He’s hilarious. I hate that geeky friend of his, though, the other one with the glasses, what’s his name?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Throughout the long history of the family the insistent repetition of names had made her draw some conclusions that seemed to be certain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My dissertation gave a different shape to history, one that was neither Mormon nor anti-Mormon, neither spiritual nor profane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But his case brought about one of the largest research oversight changes in the history of experimentation on humans. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s okay, I don’t have time right now. I’m Haley Daley. My ancestors were Irish, okay? So can we skip the history lesson and...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The two men had a long history of mutual respect and friendship in spite of their political struggles. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Throughout most of human history it was far more accessible to Eurasia than were the Americas, but the Saharan desert is still a major ecological barrier separating sub-Saharan Africa from Eurasia plus North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Papa says the history of the world is a lot of people fighting for power, within each country, plus between countries.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s so much beauty and strength in our history,” she’d say as she’d recite the works of black people who had come before us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the youngest national League president in history, perhaps the only person in this world Hilly’s afraid of. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s local history,” said Scarlett, nodding, proud that she hadn’t actually lied. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I thought of my father and his parents, my mother and her parents, each family’s respective lineage and history of participation in social movements—Garvey on one side and Booker T. Washington on the other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment the surveys were distributed, in third-period history, I bubbled in my answers. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I do not mean to imply, however, that the role of disease in history was confined to paving the way for European expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you talk to veterans of Silicon Valley, they’ll tell you that the most important date in the history of the personal computer revolution was January 1975. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

More black men are imprisoned today than at any other moment in our nation’s history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In short, literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ben grabbed for a history book Mary Anne was taking to her first afternoon class. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the farm dead, that plan is history. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the Ballet Comique de la Reine can be viewed as a significant landmark not just in the history of ballet, but also in that of instrumental music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For over sixty years, the official history of Elizebeth’s World War II unit was buried deep in the “sealed tombs” of the government archives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The boat smelled of old mop buckets and a history of nausea. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The one next to me, with the iron glasses, said she taught English and her friend taught history and American government. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He ran down for them a history of other conservancy districts in the state which had effectively destroyed subsistence farmers by forcing them into cash economies where they could not compete. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is to say, each of us is at a certain stage of life and has a history. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this chapter we have looked at a series of local histories: Kepler’s efforts to make accurate measurements of Mars; the introduction of the word ‘fact’ into English; the weapon salve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My dating history gave me few reference points to work with. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bede started his history with the year 60 BC—60 years before Dionysius’s reference year. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Creating that army was the largest organizational achievement in American history up to that time. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a history lesson that flabbergasts most newcomers from the North. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Tonight there's been some lecture in the dining hall on medieval Jewish history, and it's gotten out late. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt, who was only forty-two years old, became the youngest president in the nation’s history. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

By 1932, the modest, mild-tempered Cunningham, whose legs and back were covered in a twisting mesh of scars, was becoming a national sensation, soon to be acclaimed as the greatest miler in American history. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I can read my journals from this period and trace the evolution—of a young girl rewriting her history. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“And in 1962,” I said, looking up from the paper and bemoaning my fate, “the longest grounding of a boy named Jack continues to go unnoticed by history.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One day while killing my hour of prayer, I remembered a series of volumes of Indian history I had read the year before. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Especially because the first king of the City of Bright Moonlight is known for being the greatest ruler in the city’s history. All his descendants, including King KaeJae, revere him.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, one said, "Two thousand pounds of hash is one of the biggest hash busts in U.S. history. We'll have to take that into consideration." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And the length of that night is most of our history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were required to be able to identify thirty different weapons, how to wield them, and their detailed history. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In the history book there was an image of scantily clad Africans, their heads down, being marched off a boat under the watchful eyes of white men armed only with walking sticks. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we read about this in history books?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Before I went to college, I packed the boxes that pertained to my foster care history. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I have become very good at clearing histories. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In mid-November, Pearl and Moody, along with the rest of their modern European history class, had gone to the art museum to look at paintings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I loved hearing these histories, because officers were not supposed to know them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Peale had opened a natural history museum in his house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the classics are what define language and history, they...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

There was so much history slapping hands and saying yes to Paul. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not all, of course, are suitable subjects for this technique, much depending on details of the life history, population density, and reactions to radiation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tío Pepe says this is our Magna Carta, and I’m so glad I was paying attention that day in history class so I don’t have to ask what that is. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

"That was his cousin. I knew his whole family history before he left. He gave me an aluminum putter that I use today." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You will make history. Scholars in the future will look at these pictures.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the passage ffom the history book that he had copied into his diary came back into Winston’s mind, and a lunatic impulse took hold of him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My long, sordid history with the White Noise included several episodes of fainting, vomiting, and memory loss, not to mention my most recent experience with bleeding profusely out of my eyes and nose. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were several on the history of mathematics, a book called On the Plurality of Worlds, and another called The Roots of Coincidence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I began to read more of the history of my people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But if we have a record of people’s scientific discoveries or histories, they can relearn them in the hazy period after their memories are erased. People are very pliable then.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She’d look in and stagger back, blinded, as the facts of her own history poured over her like lava. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact of history is that black people have not— probably no people have ever—liberated themselves strictly through their own efforts. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I am the only Indian in the history of the world who ever lost a fight with himself. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, when I sang this song with the Lansman family, those words seemed like ancient history. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One cannot deny that it is more difficult to extract general principles from studying history than from studying planetary orbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So although it became one of the most famous scientific meetings in history, one in which evolution and religion fought on center stage, Charles Darwin was not there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat there for a long time, running his fingers over the symbols, wishing his skin were porous enough to let all the knowledge and history of the world in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As political legacies go, the Richards family is one of the most complex bits of history Alex has tried to unravel. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I blew the dust off it, sneaked it into bed with me that night, and was stunned to find an entire chapter on Hazara history. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, now let’s talk about the ways in which history can be sacrificed for entertainment.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In second period, when Mr. Powell hands back a history test and I see I only got a 92 when this boy in my class, Alex, got a 94, I don’t even care. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Both Burr and Hamilton thought of themselves as great men who happened to come of age at one of those strategic points in the campaign of history called the American revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The third is the history of a clown’s underpants. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He opened Mom’s call history, and it was just as empty as before. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ample warning against such a notion is provided by the academic painters and sculptors of the nineteenth century, who were as a group among the most proficient artists in history—as well as the dullest. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A striking example from the history of writing is the origin of the syllabary devised in Arkansas around 1820 by a Cherokee Indian named Sequoyah, for writing the Cherokee language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was denounce your people, denounce your history, and leave your darker-skinned friends and family behind. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If we were to succeed, the history of our species and our planet would be changed forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not for me, of course, but most people just stopped caring after a while. He was just another story, another unfortunate bit of history.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“They are related to . . . rats. You know how we feel about rats. You know of our own dark history with rats. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Why should a man deliberately plunge outside of history and peddle an obscenity, my mind went on abstractedly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

What made it possible to consign alchemy to the dustbin of history was a new understanding of what chemists were trying to do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s heart leapt at the idea that this all might be part of his family history . . . perhaps his ancestors really had been actors and artists! The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In his history of Plymouth colony, Governor Bradford himself provides one answer: robbing Indian houses and graves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sure, Daoud and I had history, but none of it had been great. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The study was a secret history of the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was Praise, sometimes history, and a lot of the time it was pure fantasy, but told with such authority that they all believed it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it about the history of this school’s vice principal having his office inside an old janitor’s closet complete with a mop sink?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Given that this book relies in part on hindsight, many historians will feel justified in condemning it as an example of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was hard for teachers not to feel depressed by the lack of rudimentary knowledge, like in the history class in which students were asked to name the president after John F. Kennedy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their meeting was a critical moment in American history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Lincoln Memorial concert made both musical and civil rights history. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Deep down I guess I had always known my Gypsy history was merely Uri’s story, not reality. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg had just become the first person in American history to face criminal charges for leaking government secrets to the press. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only, I don’t really want to go down in history as the one who gave out the details. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Smith’s pencil sped almost indecipherably as he hurried toward more recent history: the motorcycle accident that had crippled him, the burglary in Phillipsburg, Kansas, that had led to his first prison sentence: ... In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That most important source for the history of the War of the Ring was so called because it was long preserved at Undertowers, the home of the Fairbairns, Wardens of the Westmarch. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Some histories repeat; some events are unique. There is regional, statewide, and national history. We share all of it in common as Americans.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He talked to her about military history, the question of strategy and tactics in past eras. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Sefia grasped for answers, her vision flooding into the darkest corners of his past, invading his history. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The data collected on the colored pilgrims and their descendants over years and decades, the doctor said, will prove one of the boldest scientific enterprises in history. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“My history is done and gone and better left that way,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The true magnitude of Ptolemaic power is still discernible in Polybius’s history, however. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Jefferson himself thought in this French fashion, Adams claimed, confusing the seductive prospects envisioned in his imagination with the more limited possibilities history permitted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The published works around him were considered priceless treasures, the very history of his region and his home carefully recorded and preserved. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“So they can have fun and remember their history.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similar questions arise for the history of the development of wheels, pyramids, and gunpowder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lee read European history, trying to discern from the filaments of the past some pattern of the future. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had to learn the history of Florida. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

You can hardly show me a black adult in America—or a white one, for that matter—who knows from the history books anything like the truth about the black man’s role. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver, in the whole entire history of his life, had never offered to give out his presents first. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The year before, when he had been in her history class, they had held a Beautiful Baby contest. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see no reason why they should pretend to ignore his existence, even though any discussion of him is liable to be dismissed as Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The last betrayal that sent Velutha across the river, swimming against the current, in the dark and rain, well in time for his blind date with history. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also gave a history of the match—before, during, and after—and was not particularly flattering to Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, we know from recorded history that English really was carried from there to England by invading Anglo-Saxons in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's not exactly thrilling to see her, but there's a kind of weighty relief in seeing anyone with whom I have a history. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You need to know the history of this town because if it dies out someone will have to be around to write the obit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I know this isn’t a surprise to you, but there’s a long, violent history of resistance against the police in this city,” said Wanda, and she squeezed his hand a little tighter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had studied American history the year before, but I was having a hard time making the connection. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Beyond the daunting task of following the greatest hero in American history, Adams faced a double dilemma. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a great blur of snow and silvery glass the building’s roof—that marvel of late nineteenth-century hubris, enclosing the greatest volume of unobstructed space in history—collapsed to the floor below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By two noses in two runnings of the race he and his wife most wanted to win, Howard had lost $182,150, and Seabiscuit had been denied the title of history’s greatest money winner. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared already to know much about them and all their families, and indeed to know much of all the history and doings of the Shire down from days hardly remembered among the hobbits themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Next question. In 1960, the Yankees hit more home runs than any other team in baseball history. How many did they hit?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I read my history textbook for a while, but my consciousness felt like a camera with a dirty lens, so I decided to text Davis. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was probably the longest period of time he remained idle on his boat in the history of the Clara Belle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But Oppenheimer knew that it wasn’t just his reputation and career on the line at Los Alamos—it was the outcome of the biggest war in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Norvelt News had arrived and as I picked it up I saw that on this day in history, General Mills had introduced Cheerios in 1941. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Unexplored rooms hovered around them, promising rich histories and secrets. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He knows how to delete browser histories and whatever, he can cover his tracks perfectly well, but I know' that I turned the computer off before I left. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe they don’t want to remember our history because some of it’s painful.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were long dissertations written in long hand; some were political and others dealt with the history of art. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the entire visit I kept thinking about how he was much more enthusiastic and excited than I had expected him to be, given his history. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every year in history is, of course, important. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But because he can’t see past his own history to let us have ours. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Darryl is a professor of social and religious history, an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and still a religious conservative—though not always predictably so. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Despite the lack of elbow room, they were busy tossing torn bits of paper over the side, creating a steady rain of confetti onto the "greatest and most significant" parade in New York City's history. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I turned and spoke to this woman, and my words were hot with all of the moment and all of my history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He said that he was the son of the Sun,” according to the report of two Spanish priests who investigated the valley's history in the 1550s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the time I walk into history class, though, all that preparation feels like a total waste. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He tells us we’re a disgrace to Ireland and her long sad history, that we’d be better off in Africa praying to bush or tree. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That was the worst trip downtown in history. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that point the world turned fuzzy and gray, and I thought I was history. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Win or lose, everyone knew the vote would make history. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

If permitted to define a decade somewhat loosely, then the next decade was the most crucial and consequential in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We will refuse to celebrate what is beautiful about our distinct cultures and histories, even as we blend and evolve. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her voice carried the voices of a hundred thousand souls in it; a whole history of resistance and rage moved with her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Just...uhh...remembered I have a history quiz this afternoon. You were saying?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Luke tried to remember if there were any history books among his family’s collection in the attic. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He read late into the night, often long after I’d fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dingiswayo’s Zulus illustrate that each of those agents contributed somewhat independently to history’s pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ziman, in a recent Nature essay, points out, “the invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of fragments of scientific work may well have been the key event in the history of modern science.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about suffrage; why you have opposed the president; the whole history of your campaign; why you picket; what you hope to accomplish by it.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Do you suppose those women know anything about the age and history of the place? The older one looks as though she might." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write this autobiography as the history of my schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And throwing away the good memories feels like a slap in the face to our history. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, two researchers, working independently, were making some startling findings by drawing on a curious fact of Earth history that had been discovered several decades earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Professor Jabavu taught Xhosa, as well as Latin, history, and anthropology. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no. I just wanted to show you. It’s not for rivers anyway. They sailed them once on oceans. I think we learned about it in history class.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And when someone taps me on the shoulder in history class, my heart is a pinball. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The history of slavery in the Dutch colony of Surinam was a long and brutal one. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas’ library. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next class, American history, was held in an auditorium named for the prophet Joseph Smith. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kay said definitely: “I can’t stand any more history. After all, we are supposed to be grown up. If we go on, we shall be doing dictation.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I do,” said the Wart, “and sometimes I don’t On the whole I can bear a good deal of learning if it is about natural history.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under criminal history: Arrested at fourteen for arson, set fire to family house in Los Angeles. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His feet in place, Maxx swayed his arms to the music, and the crowd erupted with laughter and deafening, sustained applause— the largest ovation by a good measure in Speaker Day history. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the actual intervals — the way the notes sound — are not arbitrary accidents of history. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

These voyages of exploration and discovery are the latest in a long series that have characterized and distinguished human history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Millennium Challenge, then, Blue Team was given greater intellectual resources than perhaps any army in history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I have always found this criticism to be vexing and based on both ignorance of ANC history and maliciousness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prediction in history, as in other historical sciences, is most feasible on large spatial scales and over long times, when the unique features of millions of small-scale brief events become averaged out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In America, the history of racism is taught like this: “There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin Luther King Jr. and now it’s done.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

While my family’s history of mental illness was cutting through my consciousness like a red line, my scientific work as a cancer biologist was also converging on the normalcy and abnormalcy of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Yet, if history could be changed, this book in the hands of a white man—even a sympathetic white man—might be the thing to change it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The obvious culprit is the recent history of education practice. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The kids in our history class at Burnt Mill Creek High School all believed Cade was some sort of superhero who could inflict brain aneurysms at will. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Mars said Juno wants to unite the Greeks and Romans to fight Gaea. But, jeez—Greeks and Romans have a long history of bad blood.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Leaving the maps, then, Bloom talked about the history of the north, about land grants and how they had been lost, strayed, or stolen, divvied up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keegan’s topic is the history of warfare— that part is clear enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The most eye-popping piece of information in this article, however, next to the fact that Brian might be changing history and all, is that he’s at Stanford. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Again, it cannot be denied that this point of view is abundantly justified by American Negro history. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Their calling card was “a history in which the rights of others were violated.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, in the Smoke, objects grew old, carrying their histories with them in dings and scratches and tatters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But I called it whisper history, so as quickly as I could I pulled out the card and flipped it over. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg drew sharply different lessons from the history of the civil rights movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, before he receded from history, too, White was eulogized as a good man who had solved the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Beneath the blanket of white, the land now seemed empty, its history erased. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter man was busy explaining to an interested group the history of the W, and off in a corner the Humbug and the Spelling Bee were arguing fiercely about nothing at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is a key to understanding our history and psychology. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its racial problems are complicated, spilling over into matters of class, history, politics, even education. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, secular histories tended to overlook spiritual movements like Mormonism altogether. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was relating the entire history of his life to an audience who knew it already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“This apparatus works unerringly as the mills of the gods, but beats them hollow as to speed,” the Electrical Engineer read, according to a history published by Columbia University. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, 1989,” he says, and I realize that for him this is already history. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange how when I’m in the college cafeteria and hear the students arguing about history or politics or religion, it all seems so childish. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Black ex-farmers had not left their distrust and fear of whites which history had taught them in distressful lessons. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got older, she described herself as a student of American history, attuned to the inevitable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We had too much history, the three of us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The English language has a long and storied history. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of the black people’s labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture, their history—and even their human dignity? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And overlaying all of this was the history of Howard itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The JPL Spacecraft Assembly Facility, known as the "clean room," was the little-known birthplace of the most famous spacecraft in Mars exploration history. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pizarro proceeded to hold his prisoner for eight months, while extracting history’s largest ransom in return for a promise to free him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And as you know, I always have to add a little marble pillar of history to hold up a story and properly show it off, so don’t put your pencil down.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And all parties to the debate seemed to believe that history, as well as the future, was on their side. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This word has had a complicated history over the years. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew precisely, but Becchina gave the Getty’s legal department a sheaf of documents relating to its more recent history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time in Native American history, the confusing, incorrect name prevailed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was already a good day for death, and I was about to go down in history. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They called it Operation Hannibal, after one of the greatest military strategists in history. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

All the vanguard members of the revolutionary generation developed a keen sense of their historical significance even while they were still making the history on which their reputations would rest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

During his entire advance through history, he has been waving the banner of Christianity . . . and carrying in his other hand the sword and the flintlock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think to my own brief ballistic history, right after those men attacked us in the woods—how I took Kelton’s pistol, and how I was fully prepared to use it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

First, you have to know about Shahryar, who was a Persian king—not in true history, but in myth history. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They studied the infinitesimal effects of spit on snow and history. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beliefs are almost always the same; it’s just that the histories are different. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He claims he’s actually a very important figure in the Congo at this moment of history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty perfect games had been documented in the game’s sixty-year history. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It is this very anomaly, on the other hand, which makes these texts the perfect place to embark on a new, post-Kuhnian history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

With whole regions of the country’s interior seemingly on the edge of revolt throughout Ptolemaic history, it is likely that Greekspeaking travelers faced similar risks in Eratosthenes’ time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Bobby became the youngest member in the club’s history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from the treatises on farming and the cultivation of various crops, there were rows and rows of histories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The hand of history’s course at 8000 B.C. lies heavily on us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marines had captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of the American military. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if there was a medical history they hadn’t told her about, some complication? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Looking back over the full sweep of American history, one would be hard-pressed to discover a presidency more dominated by a single foreign policy problem and simultaneously more divided domestically over how to solve it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

According to W George Lovell, a geographer at Queen’s University in Ontario, it was “the greatest destruction of lives in human history.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That task was evidently so difficult that there have been only a few occasions in history when people invented writing entirely on their own. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is not to say Jim and I didn’t have a history. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have to know all the important dates in Irish history. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To do this, we must perform the sum over histories for all possible Euclidean space-times that have no boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll get my daughter and then go find some history books from the library, if I can figure out what they look like!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And it’s history that gave us all these problems,” she said. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

All of these capabilities of centralized societies have fostered intensified food production and hence population growth throughout history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day, I was in Baba’s study, looking through his stuff, when I found one of my mother’s old history books. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Prism is an enormous, colorful honeycomb, full of the most creative little worker bees in the history of the universe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We know that a nation so conceived and so dedicated could and did endure, indeed flourish, to become the longest-lived republic in world history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Male Voice: Is there a history of asthma or heart trouble? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel at times that this is the first time in the history of the world that geeks can really take charge. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she’d wanted to, she could have seen the history of the sixteen-pounders at the gun ports, the ship, maybe even the sky, the sea, the very air that whipped around her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Since we were just about to start studying ancient Egypt in history, Mr. Browne thought this was a good choice for a precept. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The advent of ffee-to-air music for the world's grateful millions would change the value, purpose and style of music more dramatically than any other development in its history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This curtain of silence shrouds tens of thousands of years of history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

History ain’t one of my favorite subjects, but I ain’t ever learned any history about colored folks being physicians and directors. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was gratifying to be able, finally, to address some of these issues through our new project and to articulate the challenges created by racial history and structural poverty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a history buff; I assumed that whatever you were scared of would come from history, and Nazis were pretty scary.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

This was an unparalleled situation in the country’s history: in the South African parliamentary system, the leader of the majority party becomes the head of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But so many times in Jewish history, what was at stake was a lot more than a trophy or a championship. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Despite recent efforts to locate the title in the twentieth century, they comprised, by any informed and fair-minded standard, the greatest generation of political talent in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You know, I borrowed your laptop the other day to do a paper when Heather was using mine. I saw your search history.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

One way to sum up the new scholarship is to say that it has begun, at last, to fill in one of the biggest blanks in history: the Western Hemisphere before 1492. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You will know your history, your biochemistry, and your toxins ad nauseam to impress at conclave,” Goddard told Rowan with a disgusted wave of his hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The system that kept the black race at the bottom of American society was so deeply rooted in the nation’s history that it was impervious to the country’s ideals of equality. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And finally, the height, the pinnacle of my employment history so far. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

This was not Philadelphia, with its Brotherly Love and polite political history. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was also, poignantly now, a slender, hardbound history of Centralia, prepared to mark the town’s centenary just before the outbreak of the fire. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Art history is boring to those of us with normal brains,” Oliver chimed in. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Extreme marginalization, as we have seen throughout world history, poses the risk of extermination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Moreover, despite the rising global tensions with the USSR, the United States was enjoying one of the most prosperous decades in its history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Jess was in the middle of the deadliest volcanic eruption in American history. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how it would feel, to hate your own history and to crave love from the people who gave that history to you at the same time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is that this makes me the greatest seventh-grade president in the history of student government. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I walk to the altar, and someone has typed up and laminated a history of the church, which is propped against one of the vases of flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hugo had also gotten one of the biggest chops in the history of the family, but that was another story. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Another clue that mass incarceration, as we know it, would not exist but for the race of the imagined enemy can be found in the history of drug-law enforcement in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It had a deep and abiding sense of place and history, so unlike the town, where not even the origin of the name itself could be vouched for with any confidence. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became interested in politics in my U.S. history class during my junior year. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"We're very thirsty men. This young man pushed history ahead twenty years today." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was just the most devastating event in world history...that somehow didn't happen," according to the historian Martin Sherwin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My siblings knelt around the coffee table, studying Mom’s encyclopedias and history books. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There are stories within each of these stories, but this book is also a very personal story—an intimate history. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

People will pass on, but we must preserve our history. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re scared—who isn’t? But this is important. Do you want to hide all your life, or do you want to change history?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

By then I’d read Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson—writers central to the canon of our new noble history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Each time, she said, “Hi, my name’s Deborah and this is my reporter, you probably heard of us, my mama’s in history with the cells, and we just found this picture of my sister!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was still, in his bearing, a trace of his teenage history: the one who didn’t try too hard, the one the girls wanted and the boys wanted to be. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Luke wished he’d had the nerve to ask about the Population Law, or the famines, or even some family history. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other brothers, Albert and Benjamin, led more private lives and left behind little history aside from their wills and land deeds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And maybe for a short time, we're a part of that history. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“They are our history. Some families who like crafts even fill them with dried beans and pose them in favorite attitudes—a big hug, for example, or a beloved picnic.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was Monday, in history class, which meant it was also the second day of the worst group project of all time in the history of life. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Clancy, however, was ready to give his weekly lesson on U.S. history. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In America, renewed interest in the subject of women in space emerged after Tereshkova made history. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see that we’d be studying the history of Pennsylvania. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, i-Earthquake is the first named person in the history of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because when Peeta and I each pull a twelve, we make Hunger Games history. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So I injected it in myself and the rest is history! I was trying to get the rest of the T. melvinus specimen out of the lab when the rent-a-cop busted me.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I knew the answer because, unlike some people, I’ve actually read a few history books.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is far and away the most ambitious undertaking in the history of European music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That part of the grim history of sugar and slavery was over. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Southern redneck would prove to be one of the most durable inventions in American history. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents swore and signed my false medical history. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So its history in space-time is a two-dimensional surface called the world-sheet. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A really old person had probably lived through all that history and wouldn’t want to hear about it again. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

With all the visitors engaged in playtime pursuits, however, Apples to Apples is the only game left on the shelf, and Mackenzie grabs it, not knowing the sordid history. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

You didn’t get elected if you didn’t first submit to the full-bore scrutiny of the American gaze, which ran itself over your entire history, including your social associations, professional choices, and tax returns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was a giant hole in my knowledge bank about these fundamental parts of history that had been skipped over in all of my education up until now. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rene says he beat down some history teacher so bad he put dude in a coma. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are nonexistent.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Those disparate rates constitute history’s broadest pattern and my book’s subject. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to remain calm, I started by talking about my history. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the theater, it is wallpapered with old posters from shows throughout the history of the playhouse. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton’s incredible energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But instead, there are several articles and documentaries on the history of representation for black women. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Lock, stock, and barrel, they’ve got their own three ways to live with our history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a singularity, a concept that became very important later in the history of science—but at this early stage, mathematicians knew little more than the artists about the properties of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Tell him the truth about things. Put all of this in your history. Tell him the truth so you can move forward. Put this hakujin boy away now.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But to my surprise, most officers seemed to have little interest in inmates’ histories. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find this interesting, but it does make for suspicion of history as a record of reality. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far more species have become extinct in the history of the Earth than exist today; they are the terminated experiments of evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, it led to the establishment of ethnic studies departments where courses were offered in such fields as nineteenth-century black history and Hispanic-American folk art. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I looked again at the young faces around the table, and looked back at Elijah, who was saying that no people in history had ever been respected who had not owned their land. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It is thus easy to think that one could write history from Galileo’s point of view. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m planning on heading back to the classroom for more scintillating lessons from the history teacher. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Serious history was the West, and the West was white. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, fun ain’t going to get me through history or trig.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in Ben’s history class where he distinguished himself daily with a titanic ignorance of American history. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The controlled release of atomic power has been demonstrated for the first time in history,” Fermi said of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess the history books has got to be rewrit; it’s took forty-three year, two month, and a day or two for the Finger of God to steal its twentieth soul.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He looked back down at the history book. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Pamela has barely been arrested, yet he already has her entire family history cued up and all set to go. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m also learning a lot about the history of Judaism,” I admit. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But if your strategy for racial justice involves waiting for whites to be fair, history suggests it will be a long wait. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Special Investigations Unit would become known to history as “the Plumbers.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Round one starts with questions on Islamic history. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She keeps telling her that Stephen has a concerning history of tormenting kids and that he patrols the neighborhood preying on them after school. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A multicultural interpretation of US history emphasizes only the “contributions” of groups that were ignored in the dominant origin myth, including Indigenous peoples, women, African Americans, and immigrants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bunk master announces schedules of byzantine complication: Mondays are for mechanics, state history, racial sciences. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Lightning came from a well-established soccer program with a history of sending teams to both state and national championships. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He figured he’d made baseball history, and he wanted to stretch it out as long as he could. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about the history test she had had on Monday at school. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Western scholars have written histories of the world since at least the twelfth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had three holes across the top, and I covered the third one to generate the 2600-hertz tone that had made this whistle famous in the annals of hacker history. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The race, anticipated to be the greatest in the sport’s history, was on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my history class, we’d talked about how some moments in history are moments people never forget. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Geology is the study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the earliest settlers, those with their histories recorded in the museum, had grown old and were gone now. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name ’Cause we made history Na na na na, na na na I poke Mirren with a carrot. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Given that recent history, and the promising look of some of the freshmen walking away from the shell house that evening, Ulbrickson had plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the upcoming season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Actually, Mrs. Doyle,” I break in, “if you could give me a lift to the library, I have to finish up some of my research for the history final.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"It was about our faith, ma'am. We're Catholic, thanks mostly to the French part of us. Even one of the most violent, bloody antireligious revolutions in history couldn't keep the French away from the Church." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They will have to restart, something they’ve grown used to doing; their youth is packed with more history than most teens their age. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In a subdued voice, Kissinger said that history would one day rank Nixon among the great presidents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He reckons it'll be worth a fortune twenty or thirty years from now, when the Falklands War has turned into history. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She would drink whiskey with tourists, embroider histories flagrant with peril, stride through the darkness with nothing but a tambourine and too many carnations. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iam traveling through years as well as leagues, Tyrion reflected, back through history to the days when dragons ruled the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This is the true length of human history; before that there were two million years of prehistory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear physicists spend their coffee breaks at scientific conferences talking about quarks? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am going to help him, you see, because the task he’s undertaken is the greatest in human history. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julie’s topic of the day was insecticides, their uses and history. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Of course, any choice of a starting date for the history of science is arbitrary, and my own account is restricted geographically, as well as in the time span it covers. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He wanted to throw a Mess Night that would worm its way into the oral history of the Marine Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering whether you could tell me anything of Tom Riddle’s history? I think he was born here in the orphanage?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In this place, my history only goes three months back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s not her fault she had no father to tell her about the family. The history. How could she know what is true? How could she know our father?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Poetry, fiction, history, biographies, the library had them all. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t let my sister carry half-true histories back and forth between Miss Trotter and her sister. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“All he ever seemed to want was knowledge—numbers to crunch, history to learn, information to file away and use later....” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

If you read many US history books, you may find several interpretations of the country’s origin myth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That was a decision between husband and wife. Why are you bringing up this ancient history?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The idea that history progresses through struggle and change occurs in revolutionary jumps was similarly appealing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the ones we could evolve and sustain through the early millions of years of our evolutionary history, when the total human population was tiny and fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad preferred science and math books, biographies and history. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Never in the history of politics has there been such a nefarious lobby as labored to block the ratification in Nashville,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She concentrated on what was to happen next—after the showers and the hair-cutting, remembering from the lessons in Holocaust history in school. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

During most of recorded history property could be owned only by flesh-and-blood humans, the kind that stood on two legs and had big brains. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But thirty in my history class definitely seemed doable. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

People of color, because of the history of racial subjugation and exclusion, often experience success and failure vicariously through the few who achieve positions of power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before the three of us lose it right there, in the middle of campus, I say, “Dad, what can you tell us about the history of NYU?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I spend the rest of lunch talking to Mrs. Medina about oral history projects and good questions, and then I wander over to my next class before the bell rings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And it is so easy to look away, to live with the fruits of our history and to ignore the great evil done in all of our names. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

What you read shapes how you think about the world, whether it is history or story. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the folder were several lung X-rays and a short case history. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could see her screen from the bed—she was scrolling through comments on her stories as I read one of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist essays for history. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What followed was one of the biggest disasters in all of American military history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Newton was a great one for rewriting history in his own favour, and the inverse square law emerged much more gradually than the story suggests. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Kenny had a history of mental instability—she claimed to be possessed by spells—and she had once even attempted to murder another local attorney. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Adams believed that Jefferson’s version of the story, while misguided, was destined to dominate the history books. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Looking at it another way, if you had a film of the universe’s history and ran the film backward, the universe would shrink and shrink. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She came home from the Welch public library every week or two with a pillowcase full of novels, biographies, and histories. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She just don’t know you, is all. Plus she ain’t got a real good history with white ladies.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Uh, yes, I guess you do know your history,” she says. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Was there anything about the Chinese environment predisposing toward Confucian philosophy and cultural conservatism, which may also have profoundly affected history? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the history of science literature it is generally taken for granted that Wittgenstein was a relativist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Also, we worked on reports and materials that seek to deepen the national conversation about the legacy of slavery and lynching and our nation's history of racial injustice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Will history remember me for my MBE, my British Empire honor for“chivalry,” or for my cooperation with the Gestapo? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Sanborn had told her something of its history, said that years ago a Quaker, a woman, had been hanged there and that a mob once tried to hang William Lloyd Garrison there. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, she stuck a couple of them between the pages of the histories, and would sneak them out when Mrs. Caruthers was dozing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Moreover, when you did go back, you wouldn’t be able to change recorded history. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to exaggerate, but the SnowCap Melter was the greatest thing anyone has ever eaten in the history of the world. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It is intimately related to history itself, that is, the recorded evidence of human events. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth Roy had only one short chapter to read for Mr. Ryan’s history class, but he wanted an excuse to stay home. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bede wrote a history of the church in Britain, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, he used the new calendar. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That makes it the leading cause of history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second type of vulnerability stems from a quirk of history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One day, I was studying with Mathona, and I confided to her my fear that I might not pass my exams in English and history at the end of the year. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pass the time by forcing myself to think through Day’s history. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Besides serving as president, he also taught Greek, Latin, mathematics, geology, English literature, history, grammar, and philosophy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once Vonetta began performing the history, not even the threat of a whipping from Big Ma could stop her, especially with Ma Charles egging her on. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Omer said, “It’s more like—history. A historical way of—looking at ourselves—and things.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa, you have to get better soon so we can continue recording our family history.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You must be the history partner,” he said. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her generation were the first in the history of the world to come of age with the possibility of human extinction as a by-product of human ingenuity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Fifth Marine Amphibious Corps was also the largest landing force in the history of the Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bewitching moment: a gorgeous train rocketing through the winter landscape carrying five of history’s greatest architects, all in the same car, gossiping, joking, drinking, smoking. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But he knew all about history and would celebrate Black History Month in February and March. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To learn a little about what other kinds of civilizations are possible, we can study history and cultural anthropology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the way they were, they said, bound together with some old rope — their overlapping history, their parents’ relationship. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers and history books were, of course, always colored and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practiced today would have been impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I told them whatever I could, racking my brain for nuggets of twentieth-century history from Mrs. Johnston’s class—the moon landing! the Berlin Wall! Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One nice thing about studying the space program in 1964 was that it was quite new, and one didn’t have to go back very far in the history books to learn about it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hand closes on mine, and it’s not the same one that grabbed mine less than an hour ago; this hand carries history. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Rowan said with such severity, it was clear that he had a history with the scythe as well. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Until we have some convincing, detailed, agreed-upon explanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue to suspect that the racist biological explanation is correct after all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I am going to do something unprecedented in the history of our kingdom, and I hope you'll prove that it's the right decision." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I left the Infirmary and went to my 10:10 class, which was on American history. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, she might have enjoyed the spectacle, given their bitter history of envy and hatred. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We hear of a three-volume Babylonian history, derived directly from the cuneiform records at Babylon, by a Chaldean priest named Berossus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In Feynman’s sum, each history comprises a complete space-time and everything in it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things that had been out of bounds so far, obscured by history’s blinkers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 458 BC, a few decades after Pythagoras’s death, the playwright Aeschylus used this odd logic to provide one of history’s most extraordinary legal defenses of matricide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world,” Truman wrote in his diary. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madison’s message signaled the resumption of what can be considered the most successful political partnership in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Many years later, he recalled his delight at having “had it running in six months and producing one-million-volt X-rays, the first in history.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I received a hill history of your grades there. Perfect scores—you’ve already finished most of your courses in half the number of years, yes? They also say you’re quite a troublemaker. Is this true?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And then there were the proper films, the dramas, sweeping histories and heartbreaking romances. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As we saw in Chapter 2, this is nonsense, in that we have to read history both forwards and backwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Standing on Main Street, staring at the corpse of Clover’s downtown, it felt like everything related to Henrietta’s history was vanishing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not only did she have to deliver the biggest mea culpa in NASA's history, every second of it would be remembered forever. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was your typical day in Coach Patrick’s history class. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The reporter looked into the camera and launched into a brief history of great white sharks in the North Atlantic. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow she’ll be gone, and I’ll still be here, I thought to myself as we stood on our barge fastened to the bank of the Congo, watching history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building were dioramas—three-dimensional displays of the fort’s history. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

So maybe when you hear the word you get a sense of the history of the religion. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie knew that colored folks had not always been free, and she understood that her work for the Carutherses resonated within the same patterns of history, even if she was paid a modest wage. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone was telling me I could make history by winning Worlds a third consecutive time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I just kept picturing Thomas using the app and checking off American history, video games, and basketball. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We want to believe that we are not prisoners of our ethnic histories. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A site had even been chosen downriver, but there was far too deep a history here to simply give up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As you walk down a narrow pathway that zigzags back and forth, you can see the history of the region in the various layers of rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Korea, the family name came first and told the entire history of your ancestry. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She learned about all the infamous acts of both the best and the worst scythes in history. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today we take this simplified browser technology for granted, but it was actually one of the most important inventions in modern history. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1804, history had pretty much passed them by. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sedentary living was decisive for the history of technology, because it enabled people to accumulate nonportable possessions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The class, in the middle of a history lecture, broke down into a group of retching, spitting thirteen-year-old boys, with the girls retreating to the open windows for air. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

From 1975 onward I therefore started to develop a more powerful approach to quantum gravity based on Richard Feynman’s idea of a sum over histories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The true knowledge,” reconstructed much more briefly than I received it, was that history had been “whitened” in the white man’s history books, and that the black man had been “brainwashed for hundreds of years.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems logical to suppose that history’s pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if we are just a digression in someone else’s history? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Who could pity the greatest sword maker in the history of the world?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The circumstances leading to the change in Mr. Covey’s course toward me form an epoch in my humble history. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

This history of persecution and wandering had left them, on the whole, poor, deeply traumatized, and out of touch with the modern world. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He got into the history books on his day off, when he thought he was compromising himself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No one knew what was important in a medical history, so the doctors performed every test possible. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Biology is more like history than it is like physics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It even got the 587th a mention in the Fourth Air Army’s official history. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That’s the worst rap song in the history of the world.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, there was a scroll of paper twenty yards long—one page pasted to another—which had drawings depicting the history of the human race from a Marxist point of view. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left her mark on the history of our country. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happenstance may play a powerful role in biology, as it does in history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I ain’t all that bright. I don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology, but Chino, I know my radio, you know. Ask me, ask me anythin’, anythin’ ’bout my music.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Granted, coaching suburban kids in a sport that they enjoyed was a completely different animal than teaching art history in a struggling inner city high school, but the difference between the students was glaring. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was starting to think this was going to go down as one of the most awesome days in the history of my life, but then I got to homeroom. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The years 1939-45 will for ever be remembered as a turbulent turning point in world history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Just as American history is the story of how our continent’s expanse became American, Russia’s history is the story of how Russia became Russian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Total garbage. A real low point in the history of the Wars.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

China’s frequent unity and Europe’s perpetual disunity both have a long history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was set for one of the most important experiments in the history of science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were eleven hundred spectators, more than for any previous chess event in U.S. history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of Ember’s history, various clever people had tried to invent a movable light, but all of them had failed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first instance in the history of the United States when the US Constitution actually denied rights instead of granting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Readers accustomed to thinking of linguistics as dull and technical may be surprised to learn what fascinating contributions Figure 19.2 makes to our understanding of African history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter of 1937, America was in the seventh year of the most catastrophic decade in its history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad peppered him with history questions until they made it to World War II, and then they moved into an analytical discussion of wartime tactics. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But it should also be remembered that the balance among the relatively small powers around the Aegean could not last forever; history has a way of alternating periods of political fission and accretion. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Studies in mental acuity, history, and the chemistry of poisons—as well as daily entries in their apprentice journals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Wherever he traveled in the world, he rarely took time to enjoy the local culture or history, such as Machu Picchu in Peru or the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I spent three months as the loneliest man in history and it's finally over. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She may rely too long on Athena’s gifts— talent in handicraft and a clever mind; so cunning—history cannot show the like among the ringleted ladies of Akhaia, Mykene with her coronet, Alkmene, Tyro. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I,” Dad announced, "am bored stiff. Now if Anne had seen a two-headed boy in history class, that would have been of general interest.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hathaway, her history teacher, had said the last week of school. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly situated in the sheltered lowland ahead and big as a palace, with the lovely symmetrical proportions of the ancient Greek architecture Penelope had so often admired in her history books at Swanburne. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

To discover that abortion was one of the greatest crime-lowering factors in American history is, needless to say, jarring. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Red like all the red in the entire history of the whole universe had been concentrated on her head. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He prayed for them as they were driven from the city gates, the histories said, but would not look at than. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m looking at history,” she said, pointing at me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It would be hard to think of a more overlooked person in the history of paleontology than Mary Anning, but in fact there was one who came painfully close. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If you could tap into the Illuminated world, you could read the history of each mark as clearly as you could read a sentence from a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It does not serve the Bantu to learn history and science because he is primitive,” the government said. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’m haunted by the Lead Monitor’s words: consensus, create a new history. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Has it ever occurred to you,” he said, “that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

These examples, at first so bizarre to us, illustrate well the roles of geography and of diffusion in the history of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks, as I learned more about American history, I started to understand more about what it meant to be African American, and the ongoing and complex fight for equality. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You may not believe this, Luther, but I plan to have the best squadron in the history of the Marine Corps.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t understand. How can ‘history be alive’? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Most teams felt intimidated playing Permian because of all the tradition and its history of winning. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s the history of my family! But why would Uncle Albert want to keep these stories secret from me?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Nor can we leave success out of the history of parliamentary democracy or the novel; but democracies sometimes fail, and sometimes the novels get worse not better. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

First the failure to get in touch with the art history department at City College. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Because land tenure was a contentious issue in Peru, he had asked Dobyns to finalize the lease and learn more about the estate’s history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only here in the Shire were to be found extensive materials for the history of Númenor and the arising of Sauron. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“And now you all know the history of North Hill, Virginia, where the people save birds who get hurt trying to fight themselves,” Tess said, witty. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were also keen to insist that the history of science be done by historians, not by scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The discipline of history is generally not considered to be a science, but something closer to the humanities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of the truly epoch-making achievements of human history. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this was history, he wanted no part of it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Where did you learn to fight with a history book, Mr. Meecham? Do you have something against fists?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Without explaining his purpose, he began talking about my personal history,” remembered Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an educator and a teacher, Dr. Brown loved history, and he somehow sensed that these records from the first black church in Birmingham would be significant someday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I believe my smile is the weakest one ever tried in the history of people. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I clicked up some history on the area, heavily industrial, at least until the economy tanked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It was at Mqhekezweni that I developed my interest in African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This specialist now has a large number of detailed case histories based on every patient he has seen with leukemias, aplastic anemias, Hodgkin’s disease, and other disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I indulge in personal political history, it is because I think my experience may not be unique. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were with a young man who’d educated himself on the history of black people in Gettysburg. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He seems to like all this history stuff. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid the technical difficulties with Feynman’s sum over histories, one must use imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s ancient history,” Emma muttered, “relevant to nothing. And hadn’t we better be thinking about the future instead of the “Someone’s being a grumplepuss,” said Olive. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She says don’t let them hear you joke and pinches me, but she knows my own history with speech therapists. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I can guess is that for Morgenstern, the real narrative was not Buttercup and the remarkable things she endures, but, rather, the history of the monarchy and other such stuff. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a fancy litde guardhouse on the island, like something the kings and queens in history would have built to keep out the serfs, or the Vandals, or whoever. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The probability that the particle, say, passes through some particular point is found by adding up the waves associated with every possible history that passes through that point. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new history of science, beginning with Kuhn, tried to ground these new ways of thinking in intellectual communities: the success of new ideas depended upon conflict and competition within and between communities of thinkers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My grandfather seemed so small and defeated then, bowed under the weight of history and the burdens of the future. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We conversed about the Transkei and caught up on family history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no great quarrel with those who wish to read Wittgenstein as a relativist, providing they do not use this reading to justify a relativist history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he woke up, he sat in his favorite chair and read Civil War history books until Ruthanne had supper ready. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And we are entering a phase where more people than ever before in the history of the world are going to have access to these tools—as innovators, as collaborators, and, alas, even as terrorists. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The veterans, who of course knew nothing about the history of Tommy and Ruth’s relationship, treated them as a long-established couple, and this seemed to please Ruth no end. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to complicate the discussion by introducing grand political theories; I would rely on common sense and the facts of our history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Moon, they all bear witness to an age of impact catastrophism in the early history of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, now my history is divided into two sections: BD and AD. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They were like the eyes of the animals at the natural history museum, who were hollowed out and stuffed and posed and placed in some habitat and made to look like they were still alive. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had read about sieges like this in my English history book, but in ancient days soldiers had worn armor and ridden horseback and used battering rams against the city walls. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a former officer looking back into Sing Sing’s history, I was struck by lost institutions of the old prison, such as the bands that played as prisoners marched to chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me to come by his office after Mr. Barber’s class—Mr. McElroy already knew I’d be late for world history. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But if they were ever questioned or arrested in America, they needed to know their new life histories inside and out so they sounded natural and, most important, believable. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And in our bed, which Anatole calls the New Republic of Connubia, my husband tells me the history of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Septa Mordane had gone on about the history of this house and that house, she was inclined to drift and dream and wonder when the lesson would be done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t keep treating it like something that belongs in a museum’s exhibit specializing in one guy’s history of breaking hearts. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The United States, meanwhile, has had a different abortion history than Europe. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Nah. I’m just trying to not let history repeat itself, is all,” and we pull up to Aunt Heidi’s stop and plop down the stairs two at a time, onto the street below. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But never in frog history had such an execution taken place. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In history class my teacher, Mr. Burger, begins discussing the Louisiana Purchase and I sit and stew. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slavery, we were taught, was a distant and unfortunate period in American history and had led to the Civil War. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Disagreements within the African American community about how best to respond to systems of control—and even disagreements about what is, and is not, discriminatory—have a long history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I could tell them to hope until I found the basis of something real, some firm ground for action that would lead them onto the plane of history. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is calm in Milagro; there is a feeling of uninterrupted history everywhere. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had long been part of the history and tradition of other countries, including the United States. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He knows books and literary history incredibly well—I always forget that not all book people are good people.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Perkins shook her head and said, “Sorry, family history. Not your fault.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Upstairs in my room, I found a piece of orange cardboard I bought for a school history project and cut a four-by-six-inch rectangle. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Babgen Bannayan got in trouble for not bringing in his history research on the Colossus of Rhodes for the third day in a row. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think texting is the single worst technological advancement in history. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

After I polish off the rest of the kabob, I tell my friends, “I just had history,” remembering what I was excited to share with them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

At Hanawon, many defectors flatly refuse to believe that this fundamental pillar of North Korean history is a lie. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Again, physicists tend to look down on evolutionary biology and history, because those fields appear to fail this test. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Soheil talks, I feel bile rising in my throat, but I also begin to remember more of the White Rose story from history class. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They remembered their histories with their voices and bodies, repeating them over and over until the stories became part of them, and the legends were as real as their own tongues and lungs and hearts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He canceled his next appointment and wrote me an absence excuse for my next class, which was California history. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I clear the history, turn off the computer, and tell her I just need to put on my shoes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The books of ballads and histories make an enormous splash, then lodge between two stones and will not budge. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Thinking about the kinfolk health histories was the only time I found comfort in being adopted. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“He’s always exploring different topics, whether it’s philosophy or Scottish poetry or the history of medicine,” says his friend and colleague Arthur Evans, who worked with Reilly on the chest pain project. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He felt that the Hebrew scriptures history of the world was false, that there was no Tower of Babel, no rainbow as a sign from God after a big flood. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have tried to learn art history and memorize dates. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Never in the history of sports has anything been more ludicrously said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wizarding history often skates over what the wizards have done to other magical races, but there’s no account that I know of that says Gryffindor stole the sword.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Another comrade added a history of the Coloured people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all of these areas had histories, sprawling literary canons, fieldwork, ethnographies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s good news, trooper. Great news. This is some day, isn’t it? One of the greatest days in history. Fantastic undertaking.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

How can students of human history profit from the experience of scientists in other historical sciences? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around those axes turned the fortunes of history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Talking about breasts plainly made Sam uncomfortable, and suddenly he began to speak of history, and boy commanders who had lived and died hundreds of years ago. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So far in this section, I have mainly described the economic and political history of Andean Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I found no living family members, and as is true for much of history, there exists little written record of poor people’s lives. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Since at least the 1800s, black oral history has been filled with tales of “night doctors” who kidnapped black people for research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, it remains an open question how wide and lasting the effects of idiosyncratic individuals on history really are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that no matter what I physically lost on that journey between countries, my history never changed. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“But if you don’t know your history you won’t know the difference between the truth and wishful thinking.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My examples so far have been drawn from modern technologies, because their histories are well known. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Only I can’t cut her loose yet. We got that big book report due in social studies. After that you’re history, girl.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I turn on her computer and everything I need to know is there in her history—the sites where these plans come from, where this information can be gleaned. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The transition to an oxidizing atmosphere posed a supreme crisis in the history of life, and a great many organisms, unable to cope with oxygen, perished. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If such a haplogroup turned up in Pena’s assays, it could write a new chapter in the early history of Native Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When that happened, a student repair committee would grab some staplers from the supply cabinet, and the room would shake as they pounded flat pieces of history back onto the wall. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

At West Jefferson High School, a tenth grader of Iraqi descent had been repeatedly harassed by her history teacher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind scouring old newspaper articles—they were still forms of history, just slightly more recent than I was used to. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

To get citizenship, my parents and siblings had to study a list of facts about American history, presidents, and politics, and then take a test. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t worry about what history would say about my personal morality. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. I did what I thought was right.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63-65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals. from the moment of conception until death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was curly-haired and foul-humored, and seemed better suited for covering dangerous wars in far-flung countries than for teaching history to undergraduates. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Part of Dasch's job was to go through the files of prospective saboteurs and learn their personal histories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Its long history and gradual marginalization made Sing Sing increasingly different from the state’s other prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mended old books, put protective covers on new arrivals, organized monthly displays on subjects such as gardening, presidential biographies, poetry, African-American history. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In this view we are a restless species with a very short history of roots, and those not widely distributed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred and thirty was an enormous impost—many of history’s greatest horses had failed to win under it—but Howard’s statement was not well received. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some considerable period this uncompromising interpretation has been the dominant position in the history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ever forget your history,” she sang, “or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She motions me to the back of the room, where history books are stacked waist high and a bunch of kids are copying answers for last night’s homework. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to record the crimes against the Osage and wanted to make sure that the agents who had worked with him were not erased from history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The very history of the world, it had seemed to him, was all bound into covers or rolled into scrolls and archived on the shelves of this wondrous place. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had delivered what many of them thought was the greatest performance in racing history, and had lost simply because of a fluke in the weight system, and a foul from another horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which idiot in history decided that lighter pigment was more attractive than having more melanin? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The artifice required to shape a major work of history or philosophy was not in him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had no history, no quirky lines or idiosyncratic ornamentations. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They may make history inexplicable in terms of environmental forces, or indeed of any generalizable causes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He that would triumph over the petty trickery of fate must indite history at its source. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The 1576 edition of the Prognostication is a little puzzle in which we find the whole problem of the early modern history of science in miniature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He never achieved greatness in the history books. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A New York Communist writer summed up the history of the clubs and made a motion for their dissolution. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

October 2, 2020, and the whole world watched, and history remembered. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The other man didn't match the eyewitness descriptions of the person seen leaving the cleaners, and he didn't have our caller's history of stalking, violence against women, and preoccupation with the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“This is the first significant breakthrough for women in the history of Congress,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said at the time. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Certain subjects, such as politics and military history, were prohibited. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By day, Evans is a kindly and now semiretired minister in the Uniting Church in Australia, who does a bit of freelance work and researches the history of nineteenth-century religious movements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We live, thanks to the reach of our technologies, in perhaps the most argumentative age of any in history. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

We step off the elevator, and a man with an impressive double pretzel-loop on top of his head points at us, like we’re some sort of exhibit at the museum of natural history. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here was not just our history but the history of the world, weaponized to our noble ends. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In general, the Virginians were the chief beneficiaries of all the highly stylized histories, though, as Adams observed, “not a lad upon the Highlands is more clannish than every Virginian I have ever known.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was soon to become the basis of the most influential philosophy in Western history—the Aristotelian doctrine that would live for two millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At that point in American history, no police department fired its guns more than that of Prince George’s County. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The history and character of Mr. Bilbo Baggins became once again the chief topic of conversation; and the older folk suddenly found their reminiscences in welcome demand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This accidental discovery is, incidentally, entirely typical of the history of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the same reason that people throughout history have miscalculated. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, the historians were acknowledging, they were under a particular obligation to study the history of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Apparently, throughout history, people who acted strange had been accused of being inhabited by the devil or a demon. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“That depends, Henry, on who writes the history.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Red Pollard sipped his scotch and reminisced about Seabiscuit and quietly slipped out of history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dream—his obsession—of becoming the youngest World Champion in history had eluded him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways she represented the end of an era, the most dramatic, and the most tragic, era in American history. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vu Lee asks what if Father escaped to France but can’t remember his own history, so he builds a new family and is happy? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

David’s adultety with Bathsheba weighed less on history’s scales, for instance, than the positive fact of David’s killing Goliath. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The study reviewed seven hundred thousand criminal cases that were matched by crime and criminal history of the defendant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What was required was a new story, a new history told through the lens of our struggle. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

What do you really need to know in order to get by as a computer engineer, an insurance agent, a history teacher or a factory worker? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I’m watching Dylan and Harriett walk off together like they don’t have this history of not speaking for the past four months. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps nothing in natural history has been at the center of fiercer and more enduring hatreds than the line of ancient beasts known as dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A tender brought tea and they sat together, talking of the robe and its stories, of the history it told, of the time before the Ruin. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In terms of the size of assets, the bank’s failure was second largest in U.S. history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the most important transformation in human history before the invention of science, the Neolithic Revolution, took place comparatively recently, between 12,000 and 7,000 years ago. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There’s exactly one school week left before exams, as next Friday is the official designated day off to study, so he tells us that he’s going to cram the history of war into four days. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She taught us all the different nations of Africa and the periods of African history. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Left out of these depictions in the history books, though, are the many Native Americans who were losing land and rights just as settler women were gaining them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The conclusions announced by Mr. Darwin are such as, if established, would cause a complete revolution in the fundamental doctrines of natural history,” one reviewer wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We contended that his attorneys had failed to provide effective assistance of counsel at trial when they didn't uncover Avery's history or present his disabilities as relevant to his criminal culpability and sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because of his family history and European childhood, Houseman learned four languages by the time he was five years old—French, English, German, and Romanian. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But natural history became his true passion and now, after the voyage, in 1838, Charles was having serious doubts about God and Jesus, about the Revelation, about heaven and hell. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The tragic accident, known as the Carrollton bus disaster, was one of the worst in U.S. history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Percy wasn’t sure what the old seer had meant about Frank’s family history—his great-grandfather destroying camp, his Argonaut ancestor, and the bit about a burned stick controlling Frank’s life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Its consequences for the history of science have been, it seems to me, pernicious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had a deep and appreciative understanding of African-American history, and my faith had evolved and expanded to include the things in life I deemed important and acceptable. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I got an A in my history test. I knew all the answers. Mrs. Baffin said it was the best paper in the whole class.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the city, Germans are loading weapons or drinking brandy and history has become some nightmare from which Marie-Laure desperately wishes she could wake. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the secret history of First Families—an insular gossip mill sworn to absolute discretion about most things on pain of death—there’s no definite answer for who wrote it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

More than four million workers stayed home in what was the largest political strike in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the papers dealt “with the history of cryptography and should belong to the American people,” he argued. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For all of history and all over the globe she has been a nuisance, a pain, and an angel of death. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that catching Lincoln’s killer will end the unrest, Secretary of War Stanton spends Saturday expanding the search, making the hunt for Lincoln’s killers the biggest in American history. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Nailed it. Either that or I failed horribly. Could go either way, based on subjectivity and revisionist history,” Sean murmured. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We, as a nation, are as hungry for history as was England when Geoffrey of Monmouth concocted his History of British Kings, many of whom he manufactured to meet a growing demand. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atahuallpa’s presence at Cajamarca thus highlights one of the key factors in world history: diseases transmitted to peoples lacking immunity by invading peoples with considerable immunity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Such is the fear of being accused of writing Whig or teleological history that it is difficult to find an historian making simple and elementary points of this sort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“If Ms. Crane were plotting an assassination, let’s see how we’d fare in diverting the course of history.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was a figure lost to the mists of history, and though the Council of Sages took her invitation seriously, Con knew that his father only submitted to the Council because of tradition. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

An Osage lawyer had told me that the Reign of Terror was “not the end of our history,” adding, “Our families were victims of this conspiracy, but we’re not victims.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The challenge now is to develop human history as a science, on a par with acknowledged historical sciences such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cosmic rays, mainly electrons and protons, have bombarded the Earth for the entire history of life on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent some time in the beginning sketching out the history of the ANC and then explaining our positions on the primary issues that divided the organization from the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You are forgetting not only your family history, but all you ever knew about trolls,’ said Strider. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the millions of people in all the many wars throughout history and throughout the world, and all the millions of people with loved ones killed by millions of other people. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1951 the world was in the midst of the biggest polio epidemic in history. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve done a lot of research at the library on pirate history in this area,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

His history had the ethereal quality of hoofprints in windblown snow. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m so grateful I got to know Uncle Theo. I’m glad I came here when I did. I’m glad he was able to tell me our family’s history.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And we forget that other people, who have lived their own lives, have not gone through our idiosyncratic histories of abstractification. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The lessons learned from the Great Molasses Flood give it an importance that goes well beyond its mark as a strange beginning to one of the most momentous years in the nation’s history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, I would try to bring history to life by using new books, inviting guest speakers, and going on field trips. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” he said, “1893 will be the third great date in our country’s history. On the two others, 1776 and 1861, all true Americans served, and so now I ask you to serve again!” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Kathleen had just turned ten, and this trip was a kind of birthday present, showing her the world, offering a small piece of her father’s history. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my first three classes, history, math, and English, I can barely focus. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The insight was precocious, anticipating as it did the distinction between history as experienced and history as remembered, most famously depicted in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

All through the war, I did research in ship libraries and borrowed books from Marine officers who were history buffs and who liked the idea of an Indian being a historian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hennacy also talked her into joining the longest peace march in history, from San Francisco to Moscow, and she agreed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in its history, the organization permitted a concert to be held in Constitution Hall with no segregation of any kind in the seating arrangements. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He wants to be the youngest congressman in US history. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were the freakiest brother and sister in history. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we were history. Then Noah dived on top of me, and then he”—she nodded toward Grandpa Bobby—“he jumped the goon and took the pistol away.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What is their form, biochemistry, neurobiology, history, politics, science, technology, art, music, religion, philosophy? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the slow times I sat in the quiet room and read books about our church’s history. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later the Japanese company incorporated elements of Lawrence’s design into one of the most successful color TV technologies in history, a product it named Trinitron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“But Graetz was a great scholar. I read up on him before I started reading his history. He was one of the greatest Jewish scholars of the last century.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Most history textbooks about the colonial period refer to the militias, which were organized groups of armed farmers or townspeople, not trained professional soldiers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen ones like them in history books. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I understood its history and my role in it. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our mode at the firm was always to resist history, at least our own. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If our species has existed for a couple of million years, what is its history? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her men-friends would assume a sort of forced heartiness, and ask me jocular questions about history or painting, guessing I had not long left school and that this would be my only form of conversation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The Friedmans even considered writing a history of cryptography itself. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One of the most important papers in the history of code breaking, it introduced powerful new ways of using statistics to break codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Today, I carry the quote about history with me 24 hours a day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Growing up, I was always tickled by this raffish personal connection to history: part of the Puritans, but not actually puritanical. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She must have left a copy of the manuscript with the library, determined that the story not fall into the chasm of history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No, it isn’t. I was a bully. I was overbearing. I’m the worst detective in history.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And finally the thirteen colonies, spread along the eastern seaboard and stretching inward to the Alleghenies and beyond into unexplored forests occupied by hostile Indian tribes, had no history of enduring cooperation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He loved telling me the history of Rastafarianism. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was not only a sense of history at the World Trade Centre, but of self-reliance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s regatta at Poughkeepsie was a storied institution, with roots deep in the history of American rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of high school in England and took the GED here and now is a freshman at Lost Cove U. studying mostly literature, art history, and photography. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was as though he had chosen—how had he put it the night he fought with Ras?—to fall outside of history. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that “a great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet, if the history of yellow fever tells us anything, it is that this is a struggle with no real end. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In 1856 he became head of the natural history section of the British Museum, in which capacity he became the driving force behind the creation of London’s Natural History Museum. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

See the history of the French horn43 to find out more. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Well, I wasn’t 100 percent on them either way, but the bird was definitely history. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, America is a country with a history of injustice, but can we learn from those injustices? Make sure our society is indeed democratic and fair to all who reside here?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led west. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Gregor tried not to wolf his food, which turned out to be delicious, Vikus filled him in on the history of Regalia. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mathew Carey went around town noting carefully what was happening and would later turn these observations into a written history of the epidemic. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t any of you read about the punishment loops in your peculiar history books?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was in a good mood all day and was even able to answer a question during history. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Those colored schools are a big part of our history.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For most of their history, the whales may have established a global communications network. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They came down from the skies,” went the myth—or the history, if indeed it was all true. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was not well versed in American history, but I had learned the basics in school in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so answer me this, then: Do you really believe all of what you said? About your family’s ancestral home in Gujarat? Seeing all the history? Or was that all just for their benefit?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

How many separate times did writing evolve in human history, under what circumstances, and for what uses? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Richard Harding Davis called the exposition “the greatest event in the history of the country since the Civil War.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly embarrassed about how badly I behaved during our history project. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Moreover, most people in state prison for drug offenses have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the inadequacies of postmodern history of science does not mean that we should simply go back to Kuhn or to Koyré. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into ecstasy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“We can go around the back and see if the kitchen door is open. There's a kitchen garden, from—from whenever in history they had kitchen gardens,” said Paolo. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bobby defeated him in six straight games, the first shutout of a grandmaster in chess history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

These conclusions surely apply with much greater force to the undocumented history of ancient technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Neal moved to Ascend Communications, which built little boxes to terminate Internet signals and was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999 for $24 billion, one of the largest acquisitions in history. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why is it that no African in the history of this country has ever had the honor of being tried by his own kith and kin, by his own flesh and blood? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, that wasn't what I'd expected to hear from history's most legendary warrior, but I was still hungry from my time of being...not alive, so I followed him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The age of the big dreamer was passing into history before Harry’s eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m starting to think this is the worst idea in the history of bad ideas. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Aside from the little Natasha has told me, I don’t really know the history of their relationship, but I can see it on her face now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

English and history were the subjects I liked most. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Harbottle homed in on my distracted state and called on me an inordinate number of times with questions on Texas history, which I could not answer, much to the class’s amusement. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My mother went straight to the library and checked out a big stack of history books for Natalie. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maine, Mr. Reed tells them, is the only state in the nation that requires schools to teach Native American culture and history. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Alex has always known his gay American history—after all, his parents’ politics have been part of it—but it wasn’t until he figured himself out that he started to engage with it like Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He went on a bit then, filling me in on the rest of his limp life history. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were about a million words worth of secret government and military documents, and another 1.5 million of narrative history written by the researchers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now he's part of history, and he has received his true freedom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t bother to tell you that? Well, maybe she’s getting on and can’t remember the family history. Poor old thing.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, my history deserves public notice as no more than this: a parable for the life of its reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled the car with a rant about his history teacher, followed by a tirade about his math teacher and a torrent about his biology teacher. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

His focus, indeed his obsession, was the interior architecture of his own remembrances, the construction of an Adams version of American history, a spacious room of his own within the American pantheon. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this manoeuvre can be justified; but often it gives rise to a new sort of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In Washington, on the morning of April 19, the most solemn day in the history of the nation began with the president’s funeral. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole town has a good history with helping coloreds and stuff like that. The underground railroad used to go through Galesburg.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowds adored him, shouting “Ride ’em, cowboy!” as he powered down the stretch on his good-luck piece, a battered kangaroo leather saddle once carried by Phar Lap, the greatest racehorse in Australian history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1836 it was possible to describe steam as marking ‘a new era in the history of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Here was Cade Hernandez, in exile at the back of the classroom, asking a perfectly reasonable question about a figure from history. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout history, injured people have had to resort to arms in their self-defense where peaceful negotiations fail. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, history’s most tragic result of a mixed, therefore diluted and weakened, ethnic identity has been experienced by a white ethnic group—the Jew in Germany. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antoine Thomas is the greatest quarterback in the history of Tangerine County. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben awoke and heard the unsteady voice of his father raised in a song that in the history of late-night homecomings was a traditional chant of warning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That history was erased with the dawn of slavery. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

That they would watch with dinner-plate eyes as history revealed itself to them in the back verandah. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course this magic depends on one’s personal history of learning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I knew my history, and it scared me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“As for you, Lyra,” said Father Heyst, ‘I’m pleased to see you taking an interest in what lies in the oratory. You are a lucky child, to have all this history around you.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was some history I had never before read, written in the Latin tongue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one understood why, for no one knew his history, other than that he was a vagabond Kenyon had adopted years ago. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if having a sofa in a house on the ground taints its history in a house up in the sky. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the question for our purposes is whether the broad pattern of world history would have been altered significantly if some genius inventor had not been born at a particular place and time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are still mortal-borns around, but they hide their age and their history, for fear of being targeted again. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was as if we’d stepped into the larger crosscurrents of culture and history, reminded suddenly of our relative smallness in the wider arc of time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In 2012, several further studies corroborated these initial findings, strengthening the links between these variants of mental illness and family histories and deepening questions about their etiology, epidemiology, triggers, and instigators. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If ‘Romantic’ still means anything specific in the history of music, it best refers to a period when the composer’s or performer’s personal emotions, or sentiment, became paramount in the dialogue between music and audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On a daily basis he commented on Haitian poverty, history, and culture, as well as the long-standing American habit of lavishing aid on corrupt dictators such as Baby Doc Duvalier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In any case, my story so far invites a more local history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Several other players were also invited to audition for the proposed show, which would present questions that would focus on the history and lore of chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody writes about Miss Teen Dreamers in history books,” Adina scoffed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The kid giggled like he’d just said the funniest thing in history. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They did not speak at those moments, but kept silent out of a sense of wonder and lost history. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Some of them had begun to use their clout to bend the course of history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So, in 1959, when Hawaii finally became a state, it was more like the multicultural land the United States was becoming than the sugar Hells that were so much a part of its history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She takes the history book off the bed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dad had found Gat both a decent chess opponent and a willing audience for his boring stories about military history, so they’d spent some time together. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The subject must have a history of heroism in a nonprofessional capacity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And the week after that his squadron made history by winning the red pennant two weeks in a row! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was unique in the history of the county: no machines opposed Atticus Finch, no machines supported him, and no one ran against him. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’d like to spend a year in Paris and London learning the languages and studying art history. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It is not surprising that the history of science is a problematic activity, because science itself constantly claims to escape from its own temporal specificity, its own artificiality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You have to know some of the history. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This brightness, this long spell of sunny days, was history’s last fling before another stretch of time began. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like most Bengalis, my parents had elevated repression and denial to a high art form, but even so, questions about this particular history were unavoidable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like the grandfather I never had the chance to know, he’s the glue that connects my life here to my bigger family and all its history and traditions. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She knew history was being made in the presidential box and had convinced herself that she must be a part of it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had clocked a new track record that would stand untouched for a decade: a mile and a quarter in 2:01 'A. It was the second-fastest ten furlongs ever run in American racing history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had read a history of the Civil War and the author had written about the men being “cut down by fire.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

You failed English and chemistry, and you just barely passed history and math! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brother to swap stories with, who’d learn about history from me and teach me how to do my sums. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The New York Times has a history of deploying teams of talented people for long periods on big, hard subjects. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had Miss Taylor again for history in the afternoon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of my recent illness and my history of high blood pressure, I had been put on a strict low-cholesterol diet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were wise men who retained the knowledge of tribal history and custom in their heads and whose opinions carried great weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was as still as I could be, and the whole time I was thinking, What trial is more important than the greatest play in history? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a lot of the history books I read, I learned about dates and people and events, but I wasn’t always sure why people did what they did. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I loved it, and immediately thought it was up to me to record my boat's history, like so many other sea writers had done. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At once the western Hobbits fell in love with their new land, and they remained there, and soon passed once more out of the history of Men and of Elves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the Party histories, of course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That is how the greatest minds in history have survived tragedy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I brought everything we had on black history,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then, something unexpected happened in history class, and my classmates had an opportunity to understand something about me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been here a few times since my mom got elected, and it’s always incredible to see the history here, and the beer selection.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The long trestle tables that are in the picture in the history museum were gone. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you convince the Golden Company to take up the cause of our sweet queen when they have spent so much of their history fighting against the Targaryens?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom used to sit us around the table, teaching history. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Yale computer scientist David Gelernter says, “Bill Joy is one of the most influential people in the modern history of computing.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we apply Feynman’s sum over histories to Einstein’s view of gravity, the analogue of the history of a particle is now a complete curved space-time that represents the history of the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could also learn more about history so that I could understand things and help our children to understand by reminding them to never forget our language and our culture. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea here is that when time travelers go back to the past, they enter alternative histories which differ from recorded history. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're instantly bonded by our histories and our willingness to ask strangers for ridiculous favors. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The vendor who formerly had the Quarter route wore an improbable pirate’s outfit, a Paradise Vendor’s nod to New Orleans folklore and history', a Clydian attempt to link the hot dog with Creole legend. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, because of that, and because nobody has ever posted about The Gold-Bug in the history of Book Scavenger, I activated Raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Party histories might still be true, after a fashion; they might even be completely true. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They had heard this and other darker rumours before, of course; but hobbits have a passion for family history, and they were ready to hear it again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

More than seven decades have passed since the bloodiest war in history ended. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, May 28,1935 The next morning I feel my mother watching me as I rinse my cereal bowl, search for my history homework, put on my socks. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have just seen how peoples of some regions began to cultivate wild plant species, a step with momentous unforeseen consequences for their lifestyle and their descendants’ place in history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the history of the program, only two players had gone on to extended careers in the pros. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take facts so much for granted that there have been few attempts to write their history, and none of them satisfactory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was soon the world’s largest distributor in the fastest-growing industry in history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the whole history of the world, no travelers had ever had a more terrible journey than these unfortunate creatures. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the American kids knew nothing of my history in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And there was other history that he must not read. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't acknowledge Park in history class, but she never did. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"The National Socialist educational program surpasses anything of its kind in history. You see, my boys, the reality is this: It is your job to shape the fate of our Fatherland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I’m going to prepare us the absolute best dinner in the history of the world.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“To know about the Korean War, you must also know about the history of Korea.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The storytellers who had absorbed her history, the villagers who breathed the same air and dreamed the same memories—all of them were black. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The history writer says this is what Catherine, who is a wife of Henry the Eighth, says to Cardinal Wolsey, who is trying to have her head cut off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Learning to ask questions about who tells a history, or a story, is an important goal of this book. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Starting the previous year, the worst influenza epidemic in history had struck the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“That would be marvelous, Junie! Not just for this project, but for your own family history. I’m sure your parents would love it also.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“To be, or not to be ... ” may be the most celebrated aporia in literary history. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"I wrote about liberty, fraternity, equality. The three themes of the French Revolution, which I see as one of the greatest events in history." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or is my own history making me too sensitive? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Our literature and our history are filled with stories of men and women whose will and inner strength nourished their rise from impoverishment to wealth, whether material, spiritual, or educational. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was more comfortable with her as history than as person. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, this is for his history project, right?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Roger from your history class,” Kimberly answers, nervously jumping out of the way of some leaves that the wind rustled up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Milton wasn’t the only writer in history to give Satan the rhetorical chops he deserves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“This will be the bloodiest fight in Marine Corps history,” he said. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s anything my dad likes more than projects, it’s explaining the history of things. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then through all the years that followed he traced the Ring; but since that history is elsewhere recounted, even as Elrond himself set it down in his books of lore, it is not here recalled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was little hope of overpowering the history my father and sister were creating for me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three tests: one for advanced English, one for algebra, and one in US history. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Why did he choose to plunge into nothingness, into the void of faceless faces, of soundless voices, lying outside history? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the bed, reading the textbook in preparation for my American history exam the next day. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I need Grandpa to get better so he can come home and help me finish my oral history project. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mexica histories begin by relating their migration to the Basin of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This place is both my ancient and my recent history. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When I had finished my mother’s books—not the boring history ones, I was never much into those, but the novels, the epics—I started spending my allowance on books. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Pauli Murray points out in her book of family history, Proud Shoes: “Even slavery had its bitter rivalries for meager advantage...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mother told me, “To be a true student, you can read what is happening now, but you need to do research into the past to find out more, because history always repeats itself.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are seats on these trains; they’re not cattle cars—like the kind I’ve seen in my history textbooks—carrying people to their deaths. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s something else I can tell you. A story from our family’s history.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly understood. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Technology’s history exemplifies what is termed an autocatalytic process: that is, one that speeds up at a rate that increases with time, because the process catalyzes itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the most complicated eighth-grade science exhibit on soil in the history of the world.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My heart raced and my legs trembled as I gave the shortest talk in the history of Santa Maria High School. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“As the title suggests," Mr. Dunwoody said, seeing that the book'd caught my attention, “it’s about the history of opticians. What are you about?" Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“That what I really needed after a long day at school was another history lesson.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Not much, except that he had a violent criminal history. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

First, there is the claim that history must be written without benefit of hindsight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I say almost nothing, just hold her head to my chest as her history spills out in a rushed whisper. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There is as yet no predictive theory of biology, just as there is not yet a predictive theory of history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposing that the mechanics of the process have been rightly described, what is the motive for this huge, accurately planned effort to freeze history at a particular moment of time? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Sounding like the explosions and screams in the D-day movies Mr. Gregg made us watch in history. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My history teacher, Ms. McCrea, came over to sign, but the teachers who walked in with her booked it to the lunch trays. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As we pulled up in our bus at the Lincoln Memorial, I felt as if I was a part of history. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For that reason, we must consider the concept of history, which, we are often told, begins with the invention of writing some 8,000 years ago. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear everyone: Written on my heart, all that I lost—my shoes, a donkey friend, a city, the skin of my feet, a goat, my home, my childhood—shattered at the hands of history. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

We were taught history the way it’s taught in America. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“This is not a time to explain the history of Congolese revolutionary movements.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it turns on a very simple fact, the same fact that runs through the tangled history of Harlan and the Michigan students. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it–the stars not as they are now but as they were when their light left them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

You have successfully completed my literary challenge and have proved yourself a master of riddles, puzzles, and navigating San Francisco and its rich literary history. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We could use the fringe’s slide show to supplement a basic history lesson,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

From books, the Spaniards knew of many contemporary civilizations remote from Europe, and about several thousand years of European history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as the largely self-educated son of a Kentucky farmer, he wasn’t able to tap into the knowingly arcane by-ways of classical history with which his predecessors were able to signal their patrician credentials. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Certainly during the Roaring Twenties, a time marked by what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the greatest, gaudiest spree in history,” the Osage were not alone in their profligacy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A bit of civil rights history may be helpful here. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The problem with this view is that it takes the concept of ‘reality’ for granted, whereas what we need is a history of the changing nature of reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The history of the world is full of similar examples. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Euler was an excellent mathematician—in fact, he was one of the most prolific and influential in history—but in this case the careless manipulation of zero and infinity led him astray. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My parents were the greatest leaders in the Resistance’s five-hundred-year history. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Kira always stood at her mothers side, never touching the fragile ancient cloth, marveling each time at the rich hues that told the history of the world. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything else, stretching back throughout recorded time, was merely a history of those exceptions who had tried to change the world and had failed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was a fascinating lesson in life history—a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction marvel, to say the least. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It traverses no notable eminences at all in Pennsylvania, offers no particularly memorable vistas, visits no national parks or forests, and overlooks the state’s considerable history. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Given its long miscegenation history—begun when Jan Van Riebeeck and his men, the first whites to settle South Africa, arrived in 1652 without wives—the city was purported to be a most liberal place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, in medicine we have become used to moving back and forth between case histories and epidemiological arguments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were histories and songs of the Seven Kingdoms, she saw, written in the Common Tongue. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Yet he was as determined as ever not to go down in history as the first American president to lose a war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed so inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That, perhaps, is a lesson for history, and I'll leave such decisions to Jack and his ilk while I try belatedly to study the lesson of my own life. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Permian scored three touchdowns in the second half to defeat Port Arthur Jefferson 28-19 and win its third state championship in one of the great upsets in modern Texas high school history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Especially useful contributions have been made by ecological geographers, cultural anthropologists, biologists studying plant and animal domestication, and scholars concerned with the impact of infectious diseases on history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She taught history and English at the colored high school, but what she really loved was music. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being an adult with a fairly steady history of supporting myself, I figured the test could do no real harm. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In much the same way that priests and sorcerers have created gods and demons throughout history, and in which thousands of French curés were still creating Christ’s body every Sunday in the parish churches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Was it something I said? The rubbings, they’re for a local history project, it’s not as if I’m, you know, digging up bones or anything.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Every Tuesday, Mr. Ryan’s history students were supposed to bring a topic for a current events discussion. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where you are undoubtedly studying art history, women’s studies, and probably casting your own bronzes. And you probably work in a coffee house to help cover the rent.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In history we learn about the pilgrims in Plymouth Plantation in 1621 and the food they ate, wild turkeys and corn and five deer brought to the feast by the Indians. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what they were talking about, but I could tell there was bad history between them. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s history, just like the past—past history going all the way back to America’s birthday—July 4, 1776. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She handed it over, and Chess opened the call history. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Everything that’s in your books is not necessarily true, especially your history books about this country.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geography—the one that was implemented by the school board this year in an effort to “enlighten students as to the rich history available in their own home state and inspire Hoosier pride.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Wahzhazhe chronicled the sweeping history of the Osage, including the period of the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If this were true then it would become extremely difficult to see how historians could avoid writing Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The database notes show the entire history of my doomed electric blanket. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To that end, the center has a staff that includes psychologists, career counselors, and teachers of everything from world history to driver’s education. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Generally speaking, writers avoid using the word genocide in history and textbooks about North America and the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

If the inclinations toward slavery and racism, misogyny and violence are connected—as individual character and human history, as well as cross-cultural studies, suggest—then there is room for some optimism. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in Bahrami family history, she had all her grandchildren in one place. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the entire history of our marriage, it was the only secret I kept from her, and eventually it became impossible to fix. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The worst idea in the history of horrible, terrible, awful ideas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He smells the history of the tree, the visitors who have come and gone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Many of the rooms in the White House have a similar hauntedness, a sense of history that hangs like cobwebs no matter how pristine the rooms are kept. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Komla knew every story, every proverb, every bit of tribal history ever told or sung or drummed by her people. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A team of six other American men with varying backgrounds—from natural history to arctic exploration—would accompany him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it one of marble; in Alexandria, history has taken a city of marble and left it one of tin, plaster, and tar paper. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Under criminal history: Arrested at eleven for assault. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But with that....Ohhh yeah, with that, I could rewrite my own story. You went from chump to champ. Imagine what I could become. The legends. The history! It’s the only way,” he said. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

To appreciate its absurdity, one can imagine future historians lumping American history with Canadian, Australian, South African, and later South Asian histories, into a conceptual monstrosity called the “Britishistic” period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He ran right into the face of history. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a history test and a math test. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They sow chaos to bring attention to the plundering of humanity’s history. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I bet there isn’t a dame in history you can stump me on.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In olden days they had, of course, been often obliged to fight to maintain themselves in a hard world; but in Bilbo’s time that was very ancient history. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time they turned to history, Young Griff was growing restive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘This is not just a superstition or a myth,” he said, and then cited evidence from astronomers that at that time in history there was a comet that followed the path outlined in the Bible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot rest while this history remains untold. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We who write no novels, histories or other books. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would write at the top of my arithmetic or history homework the initials Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the history of music, periods of complication and innovation are followed by periods of simplicity and consolidation, which are then in time followed by more complication again. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“July 26,1978,” she recites, as if Felicia were a teacher testing her history. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neutrality was the most the separatists could hope for, given their history of attacking the Cherokee. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Is Integrative: Provides excellent opportunities for integration as a natural entry or pivot point to other subject areas such as social studies, history, literature, language, and all of the arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This narrow room with its stripes like bars contained a history of feeling that no one could imagine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I actually have to go now. Study for history and math.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I want ladies’ wear sealed off in a plastic bubble and trucked away to some place of safety, some museum of retail history. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the words of Geoffrey Keynes, it ranks ‘among the most important books ever published in the history of science’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There really are broad patterns to history, and the search for their explanation is as productive as it is fascinating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, like many landmark structures in history, the Lighthouse towered as much in symbol as in physical height. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

When I finished eating there wasn’t much left for me to do but read history as Mom ordered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Most Americans and many Europeans equate native Africans with blacks, white Africans with recent intruders, and African racial history with the story of European colonialism and slave trading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Walter didn't know the legal history, but like every black man in Alabama he knew deep in his bones the perils of interracial romance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Such inventions developed on many independent occasions in world history, at different places and times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, I manage to tell her about my history professor, who swears during lessons, rides a motorcycle, and seems much more like someone you'd meet at a bar than in a lecture hall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“A lot of people in history have taken risks to make social and political statements...” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time in history a grand piano was carried up the Lincoln Memorial steps. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

On the screen was a snapshot of my face on the morning they had brought us into camp, but the text beside it wasn’t my history. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Not the history my parents were having an affair with, but personal histories. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The history of these Indians, Ponting and others have suggested, has much to teach us today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the largest refusal of a prize fund in sports history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They carried a book about the history of American socialism. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The Celtics were in the playoffs, man! That was history in the making!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Richard even took books from upstairs, books for adults, with heavy titles about history and science. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They questioned my mother about my father’s medical history, then shifted to questions about his mental state. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Each had been chosen because of its connection with the history of Perry Smith. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Statistically, part of that ultimate effect of history proves to be mediated by the familiar proximate causes of good institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me school is easy now, you don’t have to sit in a ditch learning your sums or the glorious history of Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew enough Jewish history, he said, not to make him have to start at the beginning. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Throughout our history, there have been African Americans who, for a variety of reasons, have defended or been complicit with the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One day, I was in Chicago, reporting a story about the history of segregation in the urban North and how it was engineered by government policy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Was she a perceptive advocate for her history and her people with the courage to stand up to Rome? Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

‘Indeed, I know them all and all their history, and despite your scorn, foul Mouth of Sauron, you cannot say as much. But why do you bring them here?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As we saw in Chapter 12, it had only a few independent origins, and the alphabet arose apparently only once in world history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know where the art history department is?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Contained in that 170-year- old architectural hodgepodge are many aspects of the modern history of prisons in the Western world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got home that night, Anthony wrote in her journal, “The greatest judicial outrage history ever recorded! We were convicted before we had a hearing and the trial was a mere farce.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It would prove to be one of the most important debates in American history, and it took place entirely in secret. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The history of race relations in Durham was, after all, a long line of such shams extending back for a century. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d no idea. My history is very shaky, and the kings of England always muddled me. How interesting though. I must write and tell my daughter, she’s a great scholar.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I was learning the history of American slavery myself. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Many of history’s greatest horses had faltered under 128 pounds or more; Seabiscuit had set two track records under 133 pounds and four more under 130 while conceding massive amounts of weight to his opponents. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her finger along the volumes of military history, lingered at The Second Punic War, and stopped at The Reason Why. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I have,” he said, “but it’s not what she knows about. She knows about stuff like the history of ideas.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were married to each other and to history. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thus it should include histories in which space-time is so warped that it is possible to travel into the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means neither of them will be in my history class this year. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In earlier chapters, we have seen that throughout our nation’s history, poor and working-class whites have been bought off by racial bribes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have you know that Mr. Ice, as he referred to himself, sampled that track from the greatest band in the history of bipedal man.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The naming of clouds was a great event in the history of meteorology, after which much more serious discussion and understanding were possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He settles back in to floss his teeth and watch another history documentary. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence—and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars and most massive genocides in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of the country’s history, race was a fairly clear class marker—-black usually meant poor, and white middle class or better. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was also articulate, knowledgeable, and an expert in Russian history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, this informal history grew into a course of study, constructed by the High Organ, which became known as Syllabus A, involving two years of lectures on the ANC and the liberation struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway it seems to me more accurate about motherhood than the old bloodless milk-and-water Virgins of art history. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like most Americans, when I was in school, I never read about the murders in any books; it was as if these crimes had been excised from history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"I'm a student of history, sir," another interrupted with dramatic gestures. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These constellations have been set for tens of thousands of years. They describe the history of our planet itself, moving ever so slowly with the passage of time.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

These two examples will also demonstrate in detail a fact critical to history: that indigenous crops from different parts of the globe were not equally productive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, they felt it their duty to disabuse me of my weaponized history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was trying to remember everything I’d learned in history about elections and voting. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here their relativism breaks down and they offer us their own version of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Probably the greatest achievement in Chokecherry history, and were treating it like a dirty little secret. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was heavier than Tally was used to, the tastes too rich, like whenever her food history class tried to cook their own meals. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Books on the history of science always forgive Einstein this lapse, but it was actually a fairly appalling piece of science and he knew it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But genes—and linkage—were certainly potent forces in this history. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She understood him when he spoke of history, or of politics—though she claimed to loathe the subject—and even had a great deal to say about the theater. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In protest, the largest labor rally in US history takes place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It was the chill of knowing they had used something they loved—the study of physics—to build the deadliest weapon in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their nervousness was the result of British history. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

After all, aren’t they part of the greatest social experiment in modem history? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet geography obviously has some effect on history; the open question concerns how much effect, and whether geography can account for history’s broad pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In 1931 he had published The Whig Interpretation of History, which attacked historians who wrote as if English history led naturally and inevitably to the triumph of liberal values. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had a history of being difficult in Ms. Solomon’s class. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I just witnessed the weirdest thing in the history of PPC. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Between the project with my friends, the oral history assignment, and my regular work, I’m going to be extremely busy for the next few months. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That the Moon went around the Earth had been believed for all of human history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was there a genuine change in the way things happened, and of the kinds of things that happened, after “history” began? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is an old-fashioned way of writing the history of early modern science in which Copernicus, Digges, Benedetti and Gilbert are presented as scientists, although none of them used the word of themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe it meant that parity had been reached, that tonight was the night for the west side of Odessa to reach back into history, to show that it too could excel at what mattered most. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was New York City in the 1980s, a city in the grip of one of the worst crime epidemics in its history. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The astronauts had landed on the shores of the Sea of Tranquillity, I had read, traveling farther than anyone in the history of civilization. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“They’ve made a mockery of mortal age faith. Religion is a cherished part of history, and they’ve turned it into a travesty.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s for my history project. I just don’t want to fight with Zack over the computer.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She would recite poetry to calm us down and get us ready to learn more science or history. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now Hannibal will soon reign in the history books. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The history, the location, the alumni combined to create The Mecca—the crossroads of the black diaspora. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Your approach to history is so vital, so contemporary, so refreshingly unorthodox.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you know if your grandfather has a history of mental illness?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s just history. Or don’t they teach that in Brooklyn?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was asked to help record the unit’s history. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For most of its history Monte Alban was thus a huge village, not a true city, and certainly not a hierarchical state. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At this point, Burnham believed, nothing could tarnish the fair’s triumph or his own place in architectural history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

English, as the most common language in the country, was used in teaching mathematics, history, geography, physics, biology, religious instruction, woodworking and domestic science. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a shock to everyone when he says, the Battle of Kinsale in sixteen nought one was the saddest moment in Irish history, a close battle with cruelty and atrocities on both sides. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The first Vincent was always there, in the family history and on the gravestone in the churchyard right next door: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Back in the United States, Liyana’s classes had oral history assignments where they were supposed to go home and ask their oldest relatives or neighbors what the world was like long ago. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like most people, Americans want to think well of themselves, their ancestors, their history, and what they and their leaders do. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to Big Creek, Coach Merrill Gainer, the winningest coach in southern West Virginia history, took one look at me lost inside the practice gear and ordered me off his football field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A classic illustration of how such diseases occur as epidemics is the history of measles on the isolated Atlantic islands called the Faeroes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the history of science there is no simple solution to the apparently binary choice between radical contingency and predictable evolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But we’d hear the drivers giving lurid and inaccurate accounts of the history of the place and the family which inhabited it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

So my third hobby is history, and Father's already bought me numerous books. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you something else. You have outscored every team in the history of this county, and you are going to outscore this team today. OK, Victor. Lead them out.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves of paperbacks; there were encyclopedias, histories, novels, philosophies, and textbooks of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and others, more than I can name. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My work is to discover the life histories of viruses, and I seem to be very good at it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have further established, at least to my own satisfaction, that those states with the shortest histories and the least world-shaking events have the most historical markers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, because of the instrument's history, older orchestral parts may be in any conceivable transposition, even changing transpositions in the middle of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The foundation was by all measures a complete success, with the city surpassing Athens in size relatively early in her history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

St Mark’s basilica revealed to Monteverdi a new world of possibility; as far as I know, this is the only example in Western music of a building changing the course of history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was a unique eight months in American history, and before it was over, it was made even more historic by an unprecedented development. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

That experience has made the difficulties in devising a scientific approach to human history familiar to me. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra knew that Grandma had taught history at some college, and that Grandpa had traveled a lot, running a small importing business. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You know, the one about an event in American history that Americans are ashamed of now?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It would endure long into manhood and bind them together in history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indonesians, with their long history of exposure to malaria and other tropical diseases shared with New Guineans, have not faced as potent a germ barrier as have Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Any time we had a question about a word, or a concept, or some piece of history, they directed us toward those books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I suppose sometimes a man has to plunge outside history . . ." "What?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard said that he was a history major in college and studied World War I and read about his assassination in some books. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have Mr. Fisher for history like they did, but I knew who he was, and I saw him out there too—his bright white head bobbing through the crowd of students. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The faces lie on top of newspaper articles and headlines, only I take the words from the headlines and spell out new titles, rewrite history. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We cannot understand science without studying the history of these foundational concepts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Which do you think is more deadly? Past history or future history?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’m reading history notes, thinking, This is nice. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody in history has conquered and united both North America and Asia. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Newton of rhetoric—the one person whose work in this department overshadows the whole history of the subject—was, of course, Aristotle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He would forever be part of a statistic, a fact read aloud to shock others, a part of a fractured history. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They not only bring forth “great individuals and great deeds”—one traditional definition of history—by demanding human effort on a large scale, but they make these achievements memorable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Interested in royal history, Lady Camellia?" a voice says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Thus, when the human population became sufficiently large and concentrated, we reached the stage in our history at which we could at last evolve and sustain crowd diseases confined to our own species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If those fingers closed around her skull, she was history, helmet or not, assuming she managed to find a helmet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Brotherhood was something to which men could give themselves completely; that was its strength and my strength, and it was this sense of wholeness that guaranteed that it would change the course of history. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were vindicated; the program was correct, events were progressing in their predetermined direction, history was on their side, and Harlem loved them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know your history,” said a light, female voice, and Celaena jumped, yelping as she tripped over a spear and fell into a gold-filled chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It became one of the most decorated combat units in American history. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What god? Where? Life-force, you mean? The principle of process? God as the history of Chance?” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laid out their whole happy history, told us how life had seemed so wide open with Stan, and how even now, even after two months, she couldn’t really believe he was gone. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If there has ever been a conqueror who did not exact this most devastating tithe from his subjects, he is unknown to history. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

What would a history of experience—of this new sort of experience—be like? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Every drüskelle in history has been inducted into the order through the same ceremony since Djel anointed the first of us.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They walked to the small hotel where Cyrus lived, and on the way Cyrus pointed out the sights, the buildings, the spots of history, with the expansiveness of a lecturer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu had met him a few times, an assistant professor of history who had lived in Congo as a child. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He called his system ‘The Well-Tempered Keyboard’, landmarked for ever in history by his composing two companion pieces, a prelude and a fugue, for every one of the newly adapted key-families. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what history they were chewing on, but they’d probably kill each other before they ever got to Fjerda. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had Mr. Milo for math and science in the mornings and Miss Ehlis for English, history, and social studies in the afternoons. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The old grandmaster had many tales to tell, and listening to him was like reading a book of chess history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In all these respects history is written by an historian who, inescapably, lives in the present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were humans long before there was history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times, we would know the quantum state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have that language that comes from shared history. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he came of age, he moved to Athens and heard the philosopher Ariston of Chios, who was a student of Zeno of Citium, a key figure in the history of the Stoic school. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

No one should be surprised if histories and philosophies of science which start from Wittgenstein seem to miss the very thing that science is all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Glorifying such a violent time in history...such a violent movement.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The natural history of her life, sketched out, because nothing means as much until it has vanished. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Punctuation, together with other graphical indicators such as italics, capitalization, and spacing, developed over the history of printed language to do two things. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Our history teacher, Miss Josie Lawrence, was the blackest teacher in the whole school, but she had the same attitude. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, I kin. Shad left his books fer my sister and me. Right now I’m readin’ a history of the American Revolution.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no question that the Red Summer was one of the most shameful periods in the nation’s history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

All of these facts I know only now, for they are available to me in any history book, in any library. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had conceded too much ground—not just the mountain, but the entire province of our shared history. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And even for those not watching it was a piece of history dropping to its knees before disappearing forever. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hatsue had been taken from his life by history, because history was whimsical and immune to private yearnings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s in my history class,” Faith said, “but he hardly ever shows up. When he does, he looks so bad. Yesterday he fell asleep on his desk. Mr. Howard totally freaked on him.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If the universe really is in such a quantum state, there would be no singularities in the history of the universe in imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius had actually spent the morning sitting at Eads Plaza watching the harbor traffic and jotting some notes about the history of shipping and Marco Polo in a Big Chief tablet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably something about computer history that Finn didn’t know about, but he wasn’t going to ask the others. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But other physicists propose that two alternative histories, two equally valid realities, could exist side by side—the one you know and the one in which you were never born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make a lesson integrated, it is necessary to include social science or history goals and objectives as well as musical information, goals and objectives. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Does he really think that when you write the history of parliamentary democracy or of the novel that you should not, Whiggishly, tell a story of cumulation? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is perfectly obvious to everyone, whether an overt racist or not, that different peoples have fared differently in history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to tell her that I wasn’t really interested in history, it was just that the best gory pictures in the world came from the Civil War. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We can trace this back to the year 1980—an important year in the history of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The members discussed the largest man-made explosion in history to that point—in 1917, in Halifax Harbor, Canada, a ship packed with millions of pounds of bombs and ammunition caught fire and blew up. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alvarez wondered what it was about a thin lamina of clay, barely a quarter of an inch thick, that could account for such a dramatic moment in Earth’s history. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In 1785, he became possibly the only person in history to win a natural history museum in a raffle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For the first period, I had West Virginia history. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We avoid talking about caste in our society because we are ashamed of our racial history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As institutions go, the Ku Klux Klan has had a markedly up- and-down history. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Yet it is wrong to judge thousands of years of history from the perspective of today. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I like the Bible. As literature, as history, I'm comfortable with it as a category." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine how the most pious king in the history of France would feel about sharing a cart with living, breathing saints? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I hung out with Jack in homeroom, English, history, computer, music, and science, which were all the classes we had together. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I read the first part of the speech, explaining the history of the Banyamulenge people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Next the teacher handed Hanako a history textbook that had whole sections blacked out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A better answer might be one implicit in Robert Temple's book, The Genius of China, a history of Chinese science and technology published in 1998. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just an arranged marriage to Rishi; this was the rich fabric of history, stretched through time and space. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“If you could travel back in time to any point in history, what would you pick?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The men were too young to remember, but once, a long while before, she had done the danse du ventre at the greatest fair in history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Over its history, Permian had won an awful lot of games it should have lost. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z