Sentence examples for historians need from inspiring English sources

It did not, by its nature, leave those traces in the written record that historians need to understand it.

Anthropometric historians need tens of thousands of measurements to gauge height trends — enough to factor out the effects of age, sex, and, above all, DNA.

To evaluate the reliability of a source, historians need to be immersed in that period, including its modes of exaggeration, said Randolph Roth, co-director of the Historical Violence Database at Ohio State University.

At the same time, historians need to rise to the challenge of articulating better why it is important to know from where we come — and, indeed, why history matters.

If Bush is reëlected, and future historians need to look for signs of virtuous defeatism in advance of the victory, these movies will be the right place to start.

It is not only the dust and ash of Vesuvius, then, that historians need to excavate in their attempts to see through to the classical past of Pompeii, but also, in many cases, the theories and presumptions of the excavators who went before them.

In the view of John Thorn, Major League Baseball's official historian, a team historian need not possess an advanced degree.

As comprehensive as the museum's collection is, a nostalgic fan or an armchair historian need hardly leave home to relive the Beatles' introduction to America.

But Mr. Rakove says that a historian needs to be "as precise as possible about the experiences, attributes and events" that gave the Revolutionary generation its defining character.

Both these books focus overwhelmingly on individual actors in the drama, but the historian needs to address the bigger questions too, and these are largely disregarded.

In theory, the historian needs a smoking gun -- or at least the appearance of one that other historians for the moment subscribe to -- while the novelist may speculate, within reason.