Phrase Hound found 521 phrases and 47 compound words that contain history. The most common are listed below. Open history in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 521
- natural historyThe study of all living things, especially their origins, evolution and interrelationships.
- medical historyDetails of a patient's previous medical experiences, such as existing comorbidities, past infections, operations undergone, and medications taken.
- art historyThe study of the history of the visual arts.
- end of historyA political or philosophical concept positing that a certain political, economic or social system will be the last one that humanity develops.
- history of ideas
- family historyAn extension to genealogy in which the life and times of the people concerned are investigated.
- ancient historyA period of history generally seen as occurring before the Middle Ages, that is, before the fall of the Roman Empire. Includes Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
- go down in historyBe sufficiently noteworthy as to be remembered by future generations.
- credit historyA record of a borrower's responsible repayment of debts.
- oral historyThe collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
- modern historyThe history of the world beginning after the Middle Ages.
- history booksA notional place where events, people or objects which are deemed memorable or important from a historical perspective are placed or recorded.
- Long history
- big historyAn academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present.
- case historyThe details of the history of some case (often medical).
- public historyThe broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who generally work outside of specialized academic settings.
- life historyAn investigation into the details and activities of a person over the course of their lifetime; one’s background.
- rewrite historyTo give a changed (usually false) account of what has happened in the past.
- Brief History...
- world historyA field of historical study that examines history from a global perspective.
- Human History
- social historyThe history of society; an approach to and subfield of history that emphasizes social structures.
- Criminal history
- Local History
- make historyTo do something that will be widely remembered for a long time.
Compound words 47
- historianA writer of history.
- prehistoryThe time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
- herstoryHistory that emphasizes the role of women, or that is told from a woman's (or from a feminist) point of view.
- psychohistoryThe scientific study of psychology and motivation in history.
- ethnohistoryThe history of an indigenous people
- unhistoryThe stories of ordinary people who are not considered historical.
- microhistoryThe study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends.
- antihistorySpurious history.
- posthistoryThe history of events that occur after (and are consequences of) an event (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).
- protohistoryThe period between prehistory and history, during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed writing, but other cultures have already noted its existence in their own writings.