Example sentences for: historians

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

  • More opinionated than academic historians tend to be, he is also skilled at offering character sketches and at spinning out stories.

  • I don't expect today's generation of historians, many of whom opposed Reagan all their lives, to admit their errors.

  • Historians agree with the mythmakers that the site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c. are just about right.

  • In the 1960s, a revisionist school of economic historians proved that limiting wheat exports would have made only a puny dent in the calamity.

  • The subject of Jewish gangsterism has been well mined in recent years by both historians and Hollywood: Albert Fried's The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America and Jenna Weissman Joselit's Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community--1900-1940 are two recent additions to the nonfiction literature, and films such as Once Upon a Time in America and Bugsy feature Jewish criminality.


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