historian
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- noun
- /hɪˈstɔːriən/
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historiador
- Taylor Downing is a television historian who has produced more than 200 historical documentaries.
- according to historians
- an art historian
- a professional historian
I mean, So what do historians do with sources like that?
- I mean, So what do historians do with sources like that?
- She herself has been a historian of democracy.
- There's Joshua Rothman is a young historian who has been writing about this.
- But he's not a good historian of ideas.
- But I do know as a historian that they must have seen something.
- You'll recall my quoting the British historian Dewellen.
- So I would say I'm writing it as a historian or what are my options?
- Taylor was a historian who was sympathetic to that approach.
- It's like you ask a historian what they do.
- And I think historians aspire to telling all of that story, right.
- They are more like historical fiction writers than historians.
- If maybe this was the one time that Plato was actually a historian.
- All art historians do is compare and contrast.
- So that's in fact what we do when we have historians and society.
- Let us like the historians we are all right.
- But not only a historian, but a practitioner.
- Note for future historians of my collection, David.
- But for history and for historians, it has a different point of view.
Examples
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Many historians consider that the first global terrorists were the anarchists.
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How will future historians explain how we came to this?
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One does not have to be a historian to realize the truth in those words.
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Although it took historians quite a while to appreciate the fact.
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Professional historians have not done a good job of getting published scholarship out to the public.
Academic text (2011) -
She herself has been a historian of democracy.
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It's a history book Janice gave him for Christmas, by a woman historian, about the Dutch.
Fiction book (1990) -
Many historians believe that understanding the past is essential for shaping the future.
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The renowned historian published a book that explores the impact of the Industrial Revolution.
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She interviewed several historians to gain different perspectives on the ancient civilization.
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A person who studies and writes about the past, often as an official record keeper
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Etymology
The word historian comes from history, which comes from the old Greek historia, meaning 'asking and finding out' or 'a learned story'. So a historian is someone who asks questions, finds facts about the past, and tells its story.