Sentence examples for our historians from inspiring English sources

Our historians direly reminded us of the 19th-century defeat of the British and the Afghan quagmire into which the Soviets sank only a short generation ago.

But sometimes I feel that our historians do not put their intimate knowledge of the past in the service of understanding the issues of the present.

He went on,"The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are these: How will what we create compare with what we inherited?

In a sense, it's impossible to check the work of our historians, because their resources have often disappeared (in the hubbub of an ancient library, in a fire, in a worm's stomach).

Without them, our historians wouldn't be able to conduct so many interviews, and it's wonderful that in turn we are also able to give our students meaningful research and work opportunities.

As our historians take us through the biggest events of the period, from the Wall Street Crash to the backstairs dealings of the 1930 election, from the brutal Night of the Long Knives to Hitler becoming the all-powerful Führer of Germany - we highlight the incremental decisions and missed warning signs that could have prevented the rise of the Nazis.

At one end of the table sat our historian.

Why torment yourself?" At one end of the table sat our historian.

Many alumni from the '60s through '90s have reached out to our historian or to me, and talked about how much the Drama Society still means to them.

Our historian spends much of the book trying to document their participation, mostly as a favor to a black friend, and his selfless quest leads him to a trove of previously unheard recordings of interviews with Holocaust survivors.

Of course, this isn't merely Perlman's utopian fantasy: it happened during the civil rights movement, when Jews (like our historian's father) and blacks (like his department chairman's father) made common cause.