Sentence examples for historians date from inspiring English sources

(According to Jere oral tradition, the crossing took place during a solar eclipse, which many historians date to November or December 1835).

Some historians date the beginning of the musical Renaissance to about 1400, some to the rise of imitative counterpoint about 1450.

It seems swings have been around forever, though historians date swings in America at public playgrounds -- originally known as sand gardens -- from the mid-1800's.

The year 1619 is when most historians date the presence of African slaves in the colonies, so why does Gates start 106 years earlier, and with an "oppressor" rather than with the oppressed?

Sequenza21, and many new-music historians, date Minimalism to La Monte Young's String Trio, composed in 1958 — when Eisenhower was president, cars were finned behemoths, Van Cliburn won the Tchaikovsky Competition and Elvis Presley went into the Army.

Most historians date the postwar age of austerity as lasting between the end of the second world war in 1945 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, although rationing did not finally come to an end until 1954.

Prior to that, European historians dated years according to the Roman consul who held office in a given year.

Historians can date the origin of epistemology by the appearance of skeptics.

A typescript by Claude Shannon, 'Theorems on statistical sequences', (donated to the Library of Congress in 2001 and apparently unscrutinized by historians to date) is examined to shed light on the development of information theory.

His developing skill with perspective and unified vanishing points is used by art historians to date his works from the period.

Experts at the University of Rhode Island have begun analyzing how to best preserve the town of Stonington's battle flag, which historians say dates back to the late 18th century.