Sentence examples for write histories from inspiring English sources
"Because the war seems such a long time ago we don't realise that when people write histories of the architecture of our era we will be in a chapter called postwar.
As for philosopher-historians like Vico, Herder, and Spengler, Barzun held that they did not, despite creating prodigious works of learning, write histories at all: "It is not a paradox to say that in seeking a law of history those passionate minds were giving up their interest in history".
When you think about it, some of these people do write histories of themselves and in that pursuit, a few of them have kept up the vitality of an ancient genre: criminal autobiography.
By vividly recounting enslaved life through the experiences of individual women and illuminating their conditions of confinement through the legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, colonial authorities, and the archive, Fuentes challenges the way we write histories of vulnerable and often invisible subjects".
We were immediately struck by the opening paragraph of his essay on Alexander, where he writes, "my design is not to write histories," and "I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks and indications of the souls of men" (4).
The victors write history.
"Did Toynbee write history books?" "Beg pardon?
They want to write history from scratch".
This time we will write history".
Why write history plays at all?
