The History Books emerged in 2005- an echo perhaps of other book projects Hall was working on, and a way to bring materiality back into her daily practice. They offerred a balance to the digital work she was doing- kept her hands dirty- and reminded her of her roots as an object-maker. They are less explicit meditations on specific place than the Travel Books. Rather they are reflections on the larger interior and exterior "place" Hall had begun to explore in Marginalia.

All contain some fragment of a real book Hall incorporated into their construction, and all contain text- found randomly in the shards of books she used. What follows are fragments from a series of 10.