How to Use historian in a Sentence

historian

noun

• But, as the House historian notes, the speaker always has been a member of the House.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
• And, historians agree, in the past some Olympians were paid under the table.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
• The researchers hope the discovery will help historians learn more about the lives of those who built or worked on the fishing boat in the 1800s.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• The historian looks back on the witch hunts of centuries past in the series finale.
  — cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• All this to say, Coontz is a historian, not a self-help guru.
  — Kimberly Harrington, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
• That paradox, say historians, is at the heart of France’s struggles to come to terms with its colonial past.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
• And some historians thought that the Middle East was at least 500 years ahead of the rest of the world, the reversal of civilizations.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
• Du Mez is a historian of the Christian right (and a Christian herself).
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
• Many thousands are still here, but the wartime mood is very different, the historian says.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025
• Although, some historians suspect, unnamed cats may have lived in the White House before that as a method to rid it of rats and mice.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2024
• Baltimore objected because this was the name of a Spanish historian who taught the will of the people was above the will of tyrants.
  — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
• But the historian’s focus is on the home front, and its lessons are shockingly urgent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• There will be a post-show Q&A session with Buchanon and local historians.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
• Tom LeGore, a local historian, spent much of his life searching for details of the encounter.
  — Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2023
• With that in mind, here’s a rundown of the bestsellers, according to the fragrance historian himself.
  — ELLE, 2 June 2023
• One historian said the money had most likely been squandered by Alexandre, the son, who died broke.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• As historian Bench Ansfield shows, the true origins of burnout as a concept have been obscured over time.
  — Longreads, 17 Feb. 2023
• Sturdevant, the town historian, was even more direct about the stakes.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
• Still, the underground historians are playing the long game.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Dolls mentioned in the movie are selling fast, says dealer and doll historian Bradley Justice Yarbrough.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• The Chinese government claims that no more than 200 civilians died as a result; many historians believe the true toll was in the thousands.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• My father is from Saint Louis, and there by way of Mississippi, a historian by trade.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
• Legal historians have even traced it back to ancient Greek and Roman times.
  — Christine McDaniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• Queen Camilla traveled back into the past with a little help from a historian — and had something funny to say about it!
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• But according to historians, even Legion Field, one of the city’s most storied landmarks, was built on top of a cemetery.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2023
• There’s also some appearances from famous fans of the film as well as movie historians.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
• Part of this closure, the historian said, will come from seeing Kosminski’s name linked to the murders — not Jack the Ripper.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
• What a novelist can do and a historian can’t is invent.
  — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Some historians might argue that President Joe Biden was tied to a political regime at the end of its cycle.
  — Justin Peck / Made By History, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
• Secret tunnels and rooms fueled rumors of a connection to the Underground Railroad, though historians largely debunked this theory in 2017.
  — Daphne Lemke, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025