Example sentences for: historian

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

  • This was used as a waiting room and also, according to the Roman historian Pausanias, as a picture gallery or Pinakotheke, the name it holds today.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • These, "like the historian's footnote, enable the reader to work backward from the finished argument to the texts it rests on."

  • In May, Chatterbox asked Vincent Scully, the eminent (now retired) Yale architecture historian, whether public buildings of the mid-to-late 20 th century were less durable than public buildings that predate the 20 th century.


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