Definition of historian
1 : a student or writer of history; especially : one who produces a scholarly synthesis
2 : a writer or compiler of a chronicle
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Examples of historian in a Sentence
historians are still trying to sort out fact from fiction in the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks
Recent Examples of historian from the Web
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Former Tribune baseball columnist Jerome Holtzman, then an MLB historian, suggested more fighting between the Cubs.
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Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University, said no president has done so much so early in his term to unilaterally alter the world order.
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Exhibiting artists, curators and art historians will explore topics such as attitudes toward feminist art among women of different generations; the role of artists as agents of change; and the representation of women in the contemporary art world.
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British historian Mary Beard won the social sciences award last year.
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Historians say his music also helped usher in the fall of racial segregation.
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Since the wood and ropes of the starting gate have not been preserved in the archaeological record, historians make guesses based on textual and artistic representations.
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Porter County historian Kevin Pazour, who also is executive director of the Porter County Museum, provided an account of the storm written by Ira Fry, who lived in Hebron as a child at the time.
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Robert Bothwell, another historian at the University of Toronto, said that Professor Bliss had favored writing his books — 14 in all — as expansively as possible.
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15th Century
First Known Use of historian
15th century
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: a person who studies or writes about history
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: a person who studies or writes about history
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