Histories or, in Latin, Historiae may refer to:
- Histories (Herodotus), by Herodotus
- The Histories, by Timaeus
- The Histories (Polybius), by Polybius
- Histories by Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust), of which only fragments survive
- Histories (Tacitus), by Tacitus
- Natural History (Pliny) (Naturalis Historiae), by Pliny the Elder
Histories may also refer to:
- History of novels, an early term for the then emerging novel
- "Histories" (House), 10th episode in season 1 of House TV series
- Horrible Histories, a series of children's books written by Terry Deary
- Historians, someone who wrote down an historical non-fiction
Famous quotes containing the word histories:
“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who “do not write for money.” It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one’s best to express one’s thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)