Sentence examples for objective historian from inspiring English sources

Coke was no objective historian but an open advocate of the common law.

For all his judicious moderation and the magisterial dignity of his prose, Clarendon was not a particularly objective historian.

As Ms Lipstadt put it, "We had to slug through the mud to get to the other side".At the heart of the case was Mr Irving's contention that he is an honest, serious and objective historian.

I mean, I am defining it, but I don't think it gets defined properly until people have passed on and objective historians start to take a look at how a presidency fits into the -- into the whole flow of history.

Because progressivism, as a social and reform movement, encompassed so many different objectives, historians have had enormous difficulty defining it coherently.

"It is my conclusion that no objective, fair-minded historian would have serious cause to doubt that there were gas chambers at Auschwitz and that they were operated on a substantial scale to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews," the judge ruled.

Biography can satisfy the scientific aim of the historian to be objective because an "individual does not face a limitless play of forces in the historical world: he dwells in the sphere of the state, religion, or science in brief, in a distinctive life-system or in a constellation of them.

But the Court of Appeal ruled in 1997 that, in casting doubt on the existence of gas chambers and the scale of their use, he had taken a position that "no objective or fair-minded" historian could sustain - and he was ordered to pay the estimated £2.4m legal bill.

Over all, the more "objective" aspects that party historians laud are simply too limited to be meaningful, said the historian Zhou Xun, also of the University of Hong Kong.

"There was a lot of confusion about American objectives," said Bruce J. Schulman, a historian at Boston University.

Geologists and paleontologists are ultimately historians whose objective is to construct an accurate narrative of the history of the Earth and its living organisms, and to understand why these events occurred.