So with Kulka's work: this is the product of a master historian – ironic, probing, present in the past, able to connect the particular with the cosmic.
Miller, a fluid writer and a master historian, has a knack for finding angles on the past that light up vistas that some readers (e.g., me) hardly knew existed.
But a master historian, and Timothy Snyder is one of the best, always includes, almost as if by a higher inspired intuition, the key to unlock the very trap he may on a rare occasion be failing to avoid.
Stanley Kutler, the master historian of the Nixon tapes who sued to protect them in the public domain, is warning that the tapes and other vital records could once more be in harm's way at the hands of Nixon fans, friends of the administration that oversaw the most famous tape erasure in American history.
I've now had the pleasure of reading the senior thesis Ms. Kagan wrote at Princeton, under the kindly, avuncular eye of the master American historian Sean Wilentz.
In "Slaves Without Masters," the historian Ira Berlin quotes an irate man addressing a neighbor who had freed his slaves.
The cap was a gift from Peg Masters, the historian for Webb, N.Y., a town near Eagle Bay, which started a fire department as a result of the hotel fire in 1945.
Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in the gaps through inspired guesswork.
Master magician and historian Ricky Jay has passed away.
Paul is a master musician and a historian, proud – in a humble way – of his place.
