Sentence examples for were histories from inspiring English sources

"In addition to the scriptural canon," he said, "there were histories, stories, autobiography, poetry, ritual writing, narrative, epics — pretty much any kind of literary output you could imagine.

Also important to him were histories of Chinese painting by Japanese art historians, which he translated into Chinese and which influenced his own writings.

All he drew on were histories of the South, critical "Mockingbird" studies and material about Truman Capote, whose friendship with Ms. Lee was as catty as it was intense.

There were biographical dictionaries, diaries, letters between rulers and subjects; legal opinions on slavery, coinage, marriage and divorce; the lives of Muslims, Jews and Christians; there were histories and poetry.

Books such as Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe (1948), John F Kennedy's Profiles in Courage (1956) and Richard Nixon's Six Crises (1962), all published before the authors were elected president, helped their future candidacies, Beschloss notes, because they were histories and unlike contemporary campaign books.

Budget deficits were history.

-- is history.

History is history".

But history is history.

That was history.

Part is history.