Sentences with phrase «academic historians»

If even a reputable academic historian falls prey to these misconceptions, they are likely to be widespread.

Greater public visibility and scrutiny combined with a desire to tell their story has meant that the intelligence and security services have sought to publish «authorised» if not «official» histories, using academic historians who were made members of the parent organisation.

Given that popular taste is often anticipated in the academy, it is noteworthy that in American universities the study of British history is shrinking (if not drastically): membership of the US association of academic historians in the field has dropped from 1,000 members a decade ago to some 750 today.

This is misleading because it suggests that these historians lack faith, and it is a nonstarter because it implies that supernaturalism is a live option for academic historians.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

I suppose this is a matter of being a responsible academic historian in the modern university, but I would rather Eire wrote history from an objective, Catholic perspective, instead of relativizing all the elements of faith to «what people believed.»

To take another example, if we're reading a movie star's autobiography, we assume it will have a more casual relation to the facts than an academic historian's biography of a British prime minister.

Richard J Aldrich, an academic historian who works in intelligence, has used open sources but little help from friends within the system, in producing GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (Harper Press # 30).

Maybe you follow cricket religiously or know more about the Battle of Antietam than academic historians.

About Blog I'm an academic historian of contemporary Britain and thought I'd share my thoughts (for what they're worth!)

A fascinating dissertation that will delight American history enthusiasts, academic historians and art historians, as well as general - interest readers.

Its structure will be traditional, which is to say narrative, but its purpose is to introduce general readers to academic historians» numerous recent discoveries about the founding of the nation.