historian

Example Sentences

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"Being compelled to think like that is useful because many of those questions are the questions that good historians should be asking themselves anyway."

From BBC

The “emancipationist vision of Civil War memory” faded, as Yale University historian David Blight detailed in “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory,” and “romance triumphed over reality.”

From Salon

That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.

From The Wall Street Journal

Since 1945, historians have debated to what extent Naruhito's late grandfather Hirohito was responsible for Imperial Japan's war of aggression in Asia.

From Barron's

The origins of the naan are murky but many food historians believe that the flatbread originated in ancient Persia, since it derives its name from the the Persian word for bread.

From BBC