Mr. de Valera's decision to keep Ireland neutral, which enraged Winston Churchill, was based, historians say, on a fear that there would be public disorder, if not civil war, if Irish troops were ordered to fight with those of Britain, the despised colonial power in Ireland until 1922.
A presentation by distinguished scholar and San Francisco based historian, Omar Khan, on his new publication Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj, a visual tour of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka through 500 vintage postcards (1892 to 1947).
Dr Richard English, a St Andrews based historian, who wrote the critically acclaimed history of the modern IRA, Armed Struggle, said that at the very least ex-paramilitaries and others would be much more circumspect about what they did during the years between 1969-1994.
This picture should seem familiar to Americans, he says, because it is based on "historians' descriptions of the conditions here in America in 1783".
This picture should seem familiar to Americans, he says, because it is based on "historians' descriptions of the conditions here in America in 1783". Well, as someone who has spent three decades teaching and writing about that era, I recognize very little of the postrevolutionary United States in Mr. Rumsfeld's depiction.
Tony Kushner's screenplay, based on historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, reportedly focuses on Lincoln's fight to abolish slavery in January 1865 to his death in April the same year at Ford's theatre at the hands of assassin John Wilkes Booth, less than a week after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E Lee.
In 2009, Fiasco performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that employs musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
Opening Wednesday, the film is based on historian Les Standiford's 2008 nonfiction work "The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits". Coyne discovered the book nearly eight years ago,, thanks to producer Robert Mickelson, and was immediately struck by the modernity of Dickens' desire to re-ignite his career.
A .If you dig far enough, there are Roman roads under everything," says Frank Dabell, a British art historian who works with Scala Reale, (www.scalareale.org), a team of architects, historians, archaeologists and art historians based in Rome.
· Helen Evenden and Joe Kerr are historians based at the Royal College of Art.
All contemporary historians based their assessment of Muḥammad on his administrative measures, which were neither vicious nor visionary.
