How to Use historian in a Sentence

historian

noun
  • Venyavkin, who is forty, is a historian of the Stalin era.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The historian looks back on the witch hunts of centuries past in the series finale.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 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
  • Ilya Venyavkin, a historian of the Stalin era, left Moscow for Tbilisi with his wife and children on the seventh day of the war.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Herodotus, the Greek historian, had a story of a soldier who cut off his foot to escape his captors and who replaced it with a wooden foot.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Being raised by a historian led her to follow her mother’s footsteps.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 10 May 2025
  • All being well, The New Yorker can be expected to provoke any future historians with its mettle, its range, its vexing quirks, and the fizz of its curiosity.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025

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