Sentences with phrase «historian as historian»

The historian as historian has no answer.

The historian as a historian makes no prediction.

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But Bush's choice to champion literacy is also indicative of her persona — and legacy — as a whole, say both Gutin and James Engel, a presidential historian at Southern Methodist University.

Meanwhile, as various pundits and historians across the globe debate if and how Trump's surprising political ascendancy will shift the overall tone of U.S. politics going forward, the candidate himself feels like only a win in November will make a difference.

Future historians will look upon this as the time when a strong hand brought the rule of law back to civilization.

Someday, racing historians will look back and see Dale's concussion — and, more importantly, that he chose to deal with it publicly — as a turning point in the way the sport treats head injuries.

Dwayne Day, an American space historian, policy analyst and author, has previously written on Area 51, as well as the 1974 Skylab image flap.

«It seems that as long as President Trump is in the White House, it's certain the North Koreans will be far more cautious,» said Andrei Lankov, a historian at Kookmin University in Seoul who once studied in Pyongyang.

Modest about her own pioneering achievements, she is on record (in an interview with computer historian Janet Abbate) as saying that her biggest contribution was to be «the grandmother of the web».

As it turns out, the one - time haberdasher from Missouri was even more blunt in his private correspondence — a fact that Truman historian Monte Poen uncovers in his illuminating collection of the former president's letters.

As famed historian, Will Duran said, «I think the ability of the average man could be doubled if it were demanded, if the situation demanded.»

As civil rights historian Taylor Branch wrote in a much - talked - about 2011 Atlantic article: «The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not.»

As a historian by background who has written quite a bit on the Great War, it's always nice to see the media cover things that otherwise have been long forgotten outside the ranks of historians and buffs.

Historian Antony Beevor's sweeping history of the final months on the eastern front, «The Fall of Berlin 1945,» captured the mood in the room as victors and vanquished gathered to bring their conflict to an end:

«That much may indeed be true, but it was one of many of the tall tales that further evolved into a truism of sorts, that was basically «accepted» as such by historians, press and mafia history aficionados,» Cipollini said.

In focusing on the housing as the key to recovery, Clinton echoes a refrain among economists including Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and financial crisis historian Kenneth Rogoff.

As a historian of that first Gilded Age, I see parallels between the power of the railroads and today's internet giants like Verizon and Comcast.

Historian, Alexandra Munroe, described the period as «undoubtedly the most creative outburst of anarchistic, subversive and riotous tendencies in the history of modern Japanese culture.»

Women's suffrage — or the political fight to enfranchise women — is widely considered to have begun with the Seneca Fall convention, as chronicled by this U.S. House's Office of the Historian.

His style is characterized as brutal, and historians have pointed out that he slaughtered civilians en masse.

He couldn't stand the thought that historians would see Jean Chretien and Paul Martin as better fiscal managers than him.

Roberts cites an observation by labour historian Jan Kainer: «Women's labour organizing contributed significantly to the building and sustaining of rank - and - file participation, developing new democratic structures such as women's caucuses, organizing the unorganized, and forging political alliances with non-labour groups.»

«Lower oil prices have not proven to be as stimulative as economic theory once had it,» said Daniel Yergin, the energy historian and vice chairman of the IHS consultancy.

«Furthermore, in the main, historians educated as Keynesians and monetarists do not understand the economic history of money, let alone the difference between a gold standard and a gold - exchange standard.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

Contemporaries and historians have viewed the Last Spike — as well as the iconic photographs of the event — as a moment when national unity was realized.

As a historian of trade, I thought it would be worth recalling some illuminating examples, each of which led to disastrous results.

As we take an exclusive first look at Red Dead Redemption 2, journalist and historian Holly Nielsen explores how the first game is one of gaming's best examples of historical atmosphere.

As historians, they both gaze back through time to identify patterns and draw lessons.

Who would benefit from this book: Historians would benefit, as would those interested in trading.

As explained by Murray Rothbard (America's greatest economics historian), these pre-Fed financial panics ``

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

As explained by Murray Rothbard (America's greatest economics historian), these pre-Fed financial panics «were a result of the arbitrary credit creation powers of the banking system.»

Perhaps not where anyone would expect him to be during the last weekend of the campaign, Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman was scheduled to spend today in the traditionally conservative voting Red Deer, where the Liberals nabbed prominent local historian Michael Dawe as their candidate in Red Deer - North.

As economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote about the advance leading up to the 1929 crash, the market's gains «had an aspect of great reliability... Indeed the temporary breaks in the market which preceded the crash were a serious trial for those who had declined fantasy.

If inflation takes off, the Federal Reserve will face incredible pressure to not raise rates as quickly as monetary historians like Jamie Dimon recommend.

I don't know if Friday, Oct. 10th will be heralded by historians as the bottom of this bear market, a day on which the Dow hit an intra-day low below 8,000, but I think it might be close.

Watson, the porn historian, sees a continuum between Daniels» early (and continuing) work as a stripper, her porn career and her current role in the American body politic.

Jeff joined the organization as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father in 1990 and became editor - in - chief some years later.

A 2011 Maclean's survey of historians on Canada's prime ministers ranked John A. Macdonald, of course, the top Conservative (in second spot, after Liberal Wilfrid Laurier) and pegged Borden as the next highest - rated Tory PM (in eighth position overall).

For as long as his story has been told — which, historians tell us, is longer than any other book in the Bible — Job has served as a patron saint of the downtrodden.

@Chad «it may interest you to know that the are virtually no historians that view Jesus as not a historical figure.

YOUR HISTORIANS tell us you killed another 13,000,000 (YES, not a typo, thats THIRTEEN MILLION) africans AFTER KIDNAPPING THEM from Southern Africa, all 20,000,000 of them and herding them like FARM ANIMALS to work as cattle on your farms.

A sense for this kind of paradox is what is really splendid about McDougall as a historian.

Historians will complain that the barbarians did govern parts of the Roman Empire for some time, and the dismissal of our own governing elite as barbarians has dangerous consequences, as Oklahoma City shows too well.

Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

As a historian I do not want people downplaying horrific events for modern points - be it the early persecution of the church, the Crusades, the holocaust - whatever it might be.

The first century historian, Josephus wrote about him and expressed «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

Because it will come as a huge surprise to actual historians to learn of such sources.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.