Sentence examples for historian when from inspiring English sources

I was determined to be a natural historian when I grew up.

I was probably those things, certainly a writer and a historian, when I was in grade school.

Dominic Sandbrook is a capable but conservative historian; when not making TV programmes he writes for the Daily Mail.

Oscar Handlin told interviewers that he decided to become a historian when he was 8, and began reading avidly, even while delivering groceries to his father's customers.

In the new book, he describes David Starkey as "the homosexual historian" when his sexuality has no bearing on the point at hand.

Later, she confided that she had always felt a fraud in this role - pretending to be an art historian when she was really an artist.

This can probably be answered conclusively only by historians when all the evidence and consequences are known.

For a very long time, this was done first by journalists in real time, next by victim-writers like Anne Frank and, finally, by historians when the dust settles.

And then arrived the moment that will garner most attention from historians when they sit down to recount the party's demise.

Such documents were not generally available to historians when Ranke started to write, but, as a result of pressure from the growing historical profession, more and more archives were opened to them.

If that is the measure, it is hard to see how Kennedy is ranked similarly to Dwight D. Eisenhower by the historians, when Eisenhower had a very popular and productive presidency and served for almost three times as long.