Example sentences for: historian

How can you use “historian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Fursenko, a leading Russian historian and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Naftali, a fellow in international-security studies at Yale, add much to what we know about the coldest days of the Cold War from careful digging in newly opened Soviet archives.

  • Last week, John Hope Franklin, the venerable Duke University historian and chair of the president's advisory board on race, told reporters that his panel would refuse to hear from opponents of affirmative action in higher education.

  • It took a little more courage for a Western historian to say that then than it does to say it now, with the long confrontation finally over.

  • Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, who studies the daily life of Jews in Nazi Germany.

  • MacDonald, a professor of psychology at California State University at Long Beach, is about to testify in London on behalf of David Irving, a historian of World War II who is suing another historian over her charge that he is a Holocaust revisionist.


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