Example sentences for: historian

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

  • 2) Johnny Isakson, a former Republican state legislator, won the special election for Newt Gingrich's House seat . The media had a field day contrasting the "moderate" Isakson with the "combative" Gingrich, noting that Democrats "see Isakson as a pleasant change" and that Isakson thrashed second-place finisher Christina Jeffrey, the historian whom Gingrich had fired in 1995 over her comments on the Holocaust.

  • Yet, as Wood--a historian of early America--shows in his essay, it's also a question we've been asking since the colonial era, fitting the answer to the needs of the moment.

  • Presidential friend and White House sex-scandal witness Vernon Jordan has chosen a sometime historian of presidential sexuality to help him write his memoirs.

  • As my friend Rachel Devlin, a historian at Tulane University, points out, after World War II most industrial companies fired the women workers in their plants, even though they would work for less than men, in order to restore the status quo that had prevailed before the war.

  • In 1974, the radical historian Eugene Genovese (who has since become a Catholic conservative) published Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made . Now a staple in college history courses, Roll, Jordan, Roll painted a picture of slaves not as mere victims of oppression but as creators of a vibrant life.


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