Sentence examples for reconstruct history from inspiring English sources

Mending it meant going back, not to reconstruct history but to pick up the thread.

Though few traces of active Judaism remained, the information thus obtained (which was published in Shanghai in 1851) made it possible to reconstruct history.

The Tervuren has spent a lot of energy over the years trying more or less to reconstruct history, and the display at the Museum for African Art liberally mixes anthropological and geographical information with esthetics.

In Tuscany, Steno saw how to use sedimentary strata to reconstruct history by geometric relationships, freeing it from textual accounts (Cutler 2003).

On these trips, he collects ice cores, whose analysis enables him to reconstruct histories of past atmospheric and climatic changes.

Mr. Gates has developed a preoccupation with genealogy and helping black people reconstruct histories that were buried by the enslavement of people from Africa and by generations of illiteracy, families torn apart and exclusion from official records.

The series ends on Oct. 25 with "Reconstructing history," four movies with extravagant sets.

Reconstructing history may be controversial but it brings it alive for people.

"There are obviously evidentiary challenges in reconstructing history that is a long time ago," Mr. Goodale said.

The play, though drawn from transcripts of the trials, became "about the impossibility of reconstructing history," he said.

It is history imagined, history reconstructed, history recreated, celebrating a world of apparent aristocratic glory and colonial simplicity.