[ UK /hɪstˈɔːɹi‍ən/ ]
[ US /hɪˈstɔɹiən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
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How To Use historian In A Sentence

  • To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
  • This, perhaps the greatest period of an already great life, has been sensitively written about by memoirists and historians.
  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching. 2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
  • Public history also sought to enhance communication between historians and the general public.
  • More than one modern historian has enjoyed wrestling with the question: was Charles the Bald really bald?
  • Roman Lancashire was a quiet place, but not the back water that some historians have made of it.
  • The modern historian sees greater variety than the thesis's defenders wished to concede.
  • Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy.
  • Not to be outdone, many historians came to consider scholars trained in economics to be overly narrow, inattentive to historical context, and interpretively reductionistic.
  • Historians must, as usual, do what they can with the materials which lie to hand rather than bewail the absence of that which is missing.
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