How to Use historian in a Sentence

historian

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  • The researchers hope the discovery will help historians learn more about the lives of those who built or worked on the fishing boat in the 1800s.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That paradox, say historians, is at the heart of France’s struggles to come to terms with its colonial past.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
  • And some historians thought that the Middle East was at least 500 years ahead of the rest of the world, the reversal of civilizations.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Du Mez is a historian of the Christian right (and a Christian herself).
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Tom LeGore, a local historian, spent much of his life searching for details of the encounter.
    — Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2023
  • With that in mind, here’s a rundown of the bestsellers, according to the fragrance historian himself.
    — ELLE, 2 June 2023
  • Still, the underground historians are playing the long game.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Dolls mentioned in the movie are selling fast, says dealer and doll historian Bradley Justice Yarbrough.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • The Chinese government claims that no more than 200 civilians died as a result; many historians believe the true toll was in the thousands.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But according to historians, even Legion Field, one of the city’s most storied landmarks, was built on top of a cemetery.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The exact toll from the bombings is still subject to some disagreement among historians.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Has this fact convinced the historian that Washington ordered a covert mission to burn New York City?
    — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • No wonder Biden has started this campaign year by calling in the historians.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Piecing together old records, photographs, and measurements of the site, the historian believes he's found the true Mona Lisa bridge.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
  • And on and on. Pant, the Indian food historian says the history of butter chicken will always be elusive.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Scientists and historians provide context on the trip and some conduct research at the site, which has become a reef that is home to many organisms.
    — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • North Texas played a big role in rallying support, historians said.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Meg Vigil Fowler is a medical historian with a focus on Black women in medicine.
    — Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In 50 years, some told us, a historian might look back at all the squabbling and hand-wringing and broken governmental promises and see a mind-boggling lack of common sense.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Email address: The answer to that question — and even the premise of the question itself — has sparked furious debates among lawyers, law professors and historians.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The kora has been used across centuries by everyone from West Africa’s pre-colonial singing historians to modern jazz and rock groups today.
    — Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
  • In the exhibition catalogue, the art historian Jaap van der Veen makes the enticing rear-guard choice to revive part of Houbraken’s account.
    — Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The trailer features clips from interviews with original band members, rock and roll historian Josh Kun, music star Janelle Monáe and more.
    — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The astronomer and the historian sought out observational evidence for one of these events in the historical record.
    — Kim Beil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Titanic continues to be a gold mine of data for historians, and this scan is the next step in opening up even more wells of information and understanding.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2023
  • The historian Benzion Netanyahu told an interviewer in 1998 that his son was suited for the role of foreign minister.
    — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The sprawling press room where Oscar historians answer the media's most random questions?
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Some historians believe that youtiao even inspired churros when trade routes between Asia and Europe opened centuries ago.
    — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Today it was announced that Tina Rivers Ryan, an art historian, curator, and critic, will take on the role of editor in chief of the storied art publication.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The secretion’s powerful aroma comes from the plants in beavers’ diets, as flavor historian Nadia Berenstein wrote for Vice in 2018.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023

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