In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.” The historian faced him. “I am.” “You are a soldier.” “As you say.” “I do, and so you shall die with these soldiers, in a manner no differe...
There are no known non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any historian or other writer of the time during and shortly after Jesus's purported advent. As Barbara G. Walker says, 'No literate person of his own time mentioned him in any known...
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
