At a time when political campaigns have treated the word elitist as an epithet, he quoted the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s statement that the United States "must return to the acceptance of eggheads and ideas" to meet national security threats.
This influence of Jesus led the apostle Paul to write that in Christ there is neither male nor female, a statement historian Thomas Cahill called the first egalitarian expression in the history of literature.
An article on Monday about federal officials' plans to overhaul privacy rules that regulate research involving human subjects, and concerns raised by scholars, paraphrased incorrectly from comments by Linda Shopes, who helped draft a statement by historians about possible changes.
The film and the book on which it is based caused the Association of Black Woman Historians to release a statement saying that "The Help's representation of these women is a disappointing resurrection of Mammy … the caricature allowed mainstream America to ignore the systemic racism that bound black women to back-breaking, low-paying jobs where employers routinely exploited them".
(One Jewish historian who signed the statement reportedly hesitated because he found the language about the Holocaust and Nazism overstated in the other direction).
It is not hard to spot historians' sidestep in deploying statements like "Lincoln stopped talking about colonization" as substitutes for "Lincoln abandoned colonization," thus leaving open the possibility that he continued to pursue it out of the spotlight.
Historians who come across statements asserting the occurrence of miracles should ask themselves whether an inductive generalisation based on their own experience of reality would provide probabilistic evidence for the occurrence of miraculous events.
Historians consider Shoup's statements opposing the war to be among the most pointed and high-profile leveled by a veteran against the Vietnam War.
Obama's statement will remind historians where the primary blame lies for an ongoing national disgrace.
This statement misled later historians into seeing a strong connection between his perspective method and his treatment of conic sections.
