Sentence examples for past historian from inspiring English sources

Past historian of Chemists Club.

In the 2005 book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Polytechnic Institute described how before the Industrial Age people slept in two 4-hour shifts ("first sleep" and "second sleep") separated by a late-night period of quiet wakefulness.

Past historians have squeamishly discounted these bloody chapters of the Revolution.

Poor immigrants did not often keep food diaries, and until the quite recent past, historians did not pay attention to such mundane matters either.

Because today's religious right is determined to read the present back into the past, historians who write about faith and the founding find themselves on disputed ground.

Except as a stop on the grand tour, Rome in the 18th century was slighted by past historians more interested in Venice or Paris or London, or fixated on the Baroque and Neo-Classicism, categories into which the city over the course of the century did not neatly fit.

Someday, when all that's been happening has receded into the semi-distant past, historians may be able to answer a fascinating question: What were the people who worked for Donald Trump, the nation's forty-fifth President, really saying to one another?

In their study of the past, historians can choose among sometimes contradictory texts.

In the past, historians have suggested that she may have been a sister of Standish's first wife, Rose, and that he specifically sent for her.

The main problem for Kushner, as it has been for Lincoln's past historians and biographers, is a serious lack of solid evidence showing these hints and relationships ever moved out of the realm of speculation and rumor and became sexually intimate.

Forrest McDonald's most recent book is "Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir".