Sentence examples for previous historian from inspiring English sources
He had also begun to work on the history of the newspaper, taking up from the point where its previous historian, David Ayerst, had finished – 1956.
More cogently than any previous historian, Foner examines the political events that shaped Lincoln and ultimately brought out his true greatness.
Such evidence customarily takes the form of something written, such as a letter, a law, an administrative record, or the account of some previous historian.
No previous historian had looked in detail at what was taking place in the neighboring "dominoes" when Lyndon Johnson made his fateful decision in 1965 to insert American ground troops into the war.
He worked through more source material than any previous historian, examining archives in Israel, Washington, Canada, London and Moscow, reading accounts in Arabic, Russian, Hebrew and English -- even interviewing the war's veterans in Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
More than any previous historian, he dealt with Roosevelt's crippling illness in his biography "A First Class Temperament," (Harper & Row, 1989,) which won the prestigious Francis Parkman Award for historians.
Previous historians had been public figures and men of affairs.
How, if he is right, had previous historians got it so wrong?
She rarely relates, except in endnotes, what previous historians have had to say about women in the Third Reich.
The Oxford English Dictionary suddenly seemed to yield up the evidence for a history of political struggles, smoothed over by previous historians of our words.
I persevered to document everything I see in the city not only about ISIL but about the people, their dynamics, their daily lives, and what previous historians missed when they wrote about previous struggles.
