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Historian in sentence

343 examples of Historian in a sentence

The historian Thomas Carlyle considered Muhammad one of the world's greatest heroes, yet even he called the Koran "as toilsome reading as I ever undertook; a wearisome, confused jumble."
You know, there's a very interesting passage in a book by Paul Cohen, the American historian.
Maybe I should become an historian, or maybe a reporter.
Similarly, in the Arab world, there was what the great Arab historian Albert Hourani defines as the Liberal Age.
The Greek historian Xenophon wrote his book "Cyropaedia" promoting Cyrus as the great ruler.
So, I'm not a historian.
The steam engine and the other associated technologies of the Industrial Revolution changed the world and influenced human history so much, that in the words of the historian Ian Morris, "... they made mockery out of all that had come before."
And these were important lessons to me when I subsequently became a professional art historian.
Well, I became a tapestry historian.
I'm a little bit of an amateur historian, so I've spent some time going back, trying to see the first mention of this kind of thing.
But you can never know, because, as a historian, I know that you should never underestimate human stupidity.
We can't have just a historian or a curator narrating objectively in the third person about an event like that, when you have the witnesses to history who are going to make their way through the actual museum itself.
So I suggested this to an historian of science, and he said, "Well, what about, you know, come on, what about steam cars?
I do, however, collect new words much the way dictionary editors do, and the great thing about being a historian of the English language is that I get to call this "research."
What's your reaction as a historian when you see this? Hubertus Knabe: I think there are several aspects to mention.
I'm a historian.
So, what I am is a historian of medicine.
You can go to places like Reddit, and find sub-Reddits, like "Ask a Historian" or "Ask Science," where you can ask people who are in these fields a wide range of questions, from very serious ones to very silly ones.
Despite this uncertainty, references to Arthur caught the attention of an aspiring historian hundreds of years later.
And for me, an American art historian from the 21st century, this was the moment that the painting spoke to me.
These murky waters of abstract logic are tricky to navigate, and so it's probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity, the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship.
So I was trained as a historian.
And as a historian, you start with an idea in your mind of how the story goes.
Which brings us back to our Greek historian.
One of the things I know as a historian is that you should never underestimate human stupidity.
CA: So as you look at what's happening today, and putting your historian's hat on, do you look back in history at moments when things were going just fine and an individual leader really took the world or their country backwards?
My basic reaction as a historian is: If this is the era of post-truth, when the hell was the era of truth?
YNH: I focus on the most dangerous possibilities partly because this is like my job or responsibility as a historian or social critic.
But any historian will tell you that there never was a golden age of disagreement, let alone good feelings, not in American politics.
I couldn't let that stand and consider myself a responsible historian.
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