How to Use historian in a Sentence

historian

noun

• But, as the House historian notes, the speaker always has been a member of the House.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
• And, historians agree, in the past some Olympians were paid under the table.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
• The researchers hope the discovery will help historians learn more about the lives of those who built or worked on the fishing boat in the 1800s.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• That paradox, say historians, is at the heart of France’s struggles to come to terms with its colonial past.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
• And some historians thought that the Middle East was at least 500 years ahead of the rest of the world, the reversal of civilizations.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• Du Mez is a historian of the Christian right (and a Christian herself).
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
• Although, some historians suspect, unnamed cats may have lived in the White House before that as a method to rid it of rats and mice.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2024
• Tom LeGore, a local historian, spent much of his life searching for details of the encounter.
  — Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2023
• With that in mind, here’s a rundown of the bestsellers, according to the fragrance historian himself.
  — ELLE, 2 June 2023
• As historian Bench Ansfield shows, the true origins of burnout as a concept have been obscured over time.
  — Longreads, 17 Feb. 2023
• Sturdevant, the town historian, was even more direct about the stakes.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
• Still, the underground historians are playing the long game.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Dolls mentioned in the movie are selling fast, says dealer and doll historian Bradley Justice Yarbrough.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• The Chinese government claims that no more than 200 civilians died as a result; many historians believe the true toll was in the thousands.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Queen Camilla traveled back into the past with a little help from a historian — and had something funny to say about it!
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• But according to historians, even Legion Field, one of the city’s most storied landmarks, was built on top of a cemetery.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2023
• And since then, the requirements to get on stage have become stricter, according to historians.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
• The exact toll from the bombings is still subject to some disagreement among historians.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• Has this fact convinced the historian that Washington ordered a covert mission to burn New York City?
  — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• No wonder Biden has started this campaign year by calling in the historians.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
• Alpers, now 88, went on to become a leading historian of Dutch Golden Age painting.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
• But what do the experts, presidential historians and scholars, have to say about the subject?
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• Jeanette Hurt is a journalist and cocktail historian whose books and articles explore culture through the lens of food and drink.
  — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• Piecing together old records, photographs, and measurements of the site, the historian believes he's found the true Mona Lisa bridge.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
• And on and on. Pant, the Indian food historian says the history of butter chicken will always be elusive.
  — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
• Scientists and historians provide context on the trip and some conduct research at the site, which has become a reef that is home to many organisms.
  — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• North Texas played a big role in rallying support, historians said.
  — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
• And what if the writer was the legendary political historian Robert Caro?
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2023
• The ongoing legal battle over Graceland has raised concerns among fans and historians about the future of the estate.
  — Roland Oputa, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
• That's why historians rank him the worst president ever and Americans gave him one of the lowest approval ratings ever.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024