Sentence examples for several histories from inspiring English sources

I read several histories of Travancore but could find no detailed accounts of the temple's wealth.

The effect is that of a ramble through the dustbin of several histories, including Mr. Monahan's, humanity's and art's.

John S. D. Eisenhower has already written about his father in his 1974 memoir and in several histories.

His 21 other books ranged from several histories of the Pulitzer Prize to an exhaustive history of foreign correspondence, recounting its beginnings in the Napoleonic Wars and offering long analyses of the challenges facing journalism.

Upstairs is Peter's study and his library; there were several histories of the First World War, and a pair of books by Noam Chomsky, whose acid views on American foreign policy Griffin referred to approvingly several times as we talked.

The Depression saw a return to traditional values that had broken down in the go-go 20s, said Robert S. McElvaine, a professor at Millsaps College who has written several histories of the period.

By way of example, she recalled several history lessons inspired by artifacts like Lee Harvey Oswald's letters.

Though I took several history courses, I never understood basic things, like the Civil War.

In what might be viewed as a high-level book club, Mr. Rove has given Mr. Bush several history books to read, and they often chat about them.

"I was astounded at how much information there was in the records," said Dr. Hall, whose eventual book "Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culthee in the 18th Century," on the Louisiana Africans won several history prizes in 1992.

Several history-related entities, like the state museum and the state archives, were reassigned to the Department of State after a 1997 task force report outlined the sorry state of New Jersey's heritage.