And unlike conventional historians, Dr. Holmes also relied on sources like laboratory notebooks.
In the debate on the origins of Arab nationalism, Dawisha sides with the revisionists against the more conventional historians, led by George Antonius.
It is Coren's mission to set the record straight: he is indignant that conventional historians had ignored the canine contribution, as though, all these years, dogs had just been standing around, wagging their tails.
Like pop culture Peter Ackroyds, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have become default curators of aspects of the city that more conventional social historians might consider mundane.
Throughout the first portion of the book Mr. Waugh employs a confiding narrative voice that makes him sound more like the omniscient narrator of a family epic — "Buddenbrooks," say, recounted in a more contemporary idiom — than like a conventional biographer or historian.
For many decades, the conventional wisdom among historians and foreign-policy experts, especially those of the hawkish variety, was that sanctions don't work.
Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of "revolution". It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, even among historians, Carter--not Reagan--was the first conservative president since the Harding/Coolidge era.
Acclaimed political historian Wilentz upends conventional views of the Constitution, describing the document as "a tortured paradox that abided slavery without legitimizing it" (Harvard University Press, $26.95).
Eugene D. Genovese, a prizewinning historian who challenged conventional thinking on slavery in the American South by stressing its paternalism as he traveled a personal intellectual journey from Marxism to conservative Catholicism, died on Wednesday at his home in Atlanta.
