Historian and Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills writes, “ While there is no doubt that Forrest joined the Klan, there is some question as to whether he actually was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan .” The KKK ( the Klan ) was formed by veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 and soon expanded throughout the state and beyond.

Historian Brian MacCuarta writes, " Longstanding animosities against the clergy were based on the imposition of the state church since its inception thirty years previously.

Historian Brian Dowding states that the phrase ' son of a gun ' originates from feudal knights ' disdain for newly developed firearms.

Civil War Historian, Brian Pohanka had brief and uncredited appearance as Webb in the 1993 film of the Gettysburg battle.

Historian and writer Ana Juarbe writes in an article titled " Imposing the Past on the Present: History, the Public, and the Columbus Quincentenary " about the photographs of Villa Sin Miedo in Jack Delano's exhibition that " despite US citizenship, Puerto Rican national sentiment is convincingly expressed by land rescuers from a community known as " Villa Sin Miedo ".

Historian Chris van der Heijden in his book ' Joodse NSB ' ers ' also describes the history of Villa Bouchina.

" Historian and novelist C. S. Forester, writing in 1929, compared the Nile to the great naval actions in history and concluded that " it still only stands rivalled by Tsu-Shima as an example of the annihilation of one fleet by another of approximately equal material force ".

Historian Thomas Goodrich concluded that Booth entered the Confederate Secret Service as a spy and courier.

" Historian James M. McPherson has concluded that:

Historian Patrick Jung concluded that the Sauk and Meskwaki chiefs intended to cede a little land, but that the Americans included more territory in the treaty's language than the Natives realized.

Historian Richard Breitman concluded based on these documents

Historian William Gienapp has concluded that Brooks ' " assault was of critical importance in transforming the struggling Republican party into a major political force.

Historian RHW Reece concluded that the site was at the junction of the Slaughterhouse Creek and the Gwydir River, and that sixty or seventy Aborigines had been killed.

Historian John Y. Simon reviewed the historiography of the subject and concluded, " Available evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Lincoln so loved Ann that her death plunged him into severe depression.

Historian Dmitri Volkogonov, head of a special Russian parliamentary commission, citing KGB documents available after the fall of the USSR concluded that " from 1929 to 1952, 21. 5 million people were repressed.

Historian Henry Phillips concluded, " while it was not of sufficient magnitude to be termed a battle in technical military parlance, all of the potentials were present for a sanguinary battle, and the reason a battle did not occur was because the commanders of the two hostile forces each had reasons that he deemed sufficient for not forcing the issue.

Historian Peter Raffo has carefully analyzed the oral and written evidence, and concluded, " According to the contemporary historical record, the likelihood is that Rosvall and Voutilainen were not murdered.

Historian Eugene Campbell Barker suggests that the discussions would likely not have concluded so swiftly unless the delegates had done " considerable preparation before the meeting ".

Historian David Potter ( 1976 ) said the emotional effect of Brown's raid was greater than the philosophical effect of the Lincoln – Douglas debates, and that his raid revealed a deep division between North and South.

Over 17 days, his command marched 800 miles, repeatedly engaged the Confederates, disabled two railroads, captured many prisoners and horses, and destroyed vast amounts of property, finally ending in Baton Rouge on May 2. Historian John D. Winters in The Civil War in Louisiana ( 1963 ) reports that Grierson's raid " struck fear in the hearts of the citizens and somewhat demoralized the Confederate forces who failed to stop the move.

Historian Fred Anderson notes that equivalent raids by Indians on Pennsylvania villages were usually labeled massacres, and that the Indians considered the raid to be one.

Historian Robert Marshall describes the raid as follows: " The rest of Subedai's campaign has entered the annals of military history as one of the greatest adventures of cavalry warfare.

" Historian Adrian Weale comments that Himmler and the SS followed Hitler's policies, without question or ethical considerations.

Historian Charles Petrie concludes that he was one of the greatest prime ministers " if on no other ground than that he enabled the country to pass from the old order to the new without any violent upheaval .... He understood the new Britain.

However, most were not socially considered white, and therefore, accoding to Historian Neil Foley in the book The White Scourge Mexicans and Mexican Americans did marry non-whites typically without reprisal.

Historian E. Thomas Wood says that " without question " Seigenthaler ran the newspaper as a liberal one.

Historian Garry Wills has postulated that without the additional slave state votes, Jefferson would have lost the presidential election of 1800.

Historian Taner Akçam has identified four definitions of Turkey which have been handed down by Kemal's generation to modern Turks, of which the second is " Turkey is a society without ethnic minorities or cultures.

Historian David Kahn notes, " Kasiski died on May 22, 1881, almost certainly without realizing that he had wrought a revolution in cryptology " ( The Codebreakers ).

A list of 100 chapter titles was also in circulation, many mentioned in the Records of the Grand Historian, but without quoting the text of the other chapters.

Historian David J. Eicher discounts both the Battle of Fairfax Court House and the Battle of Philippi as " mere skirmishes " ( despite his characterization of the former engagement as " ostensibly the first land battle of the war ") and says the first " real land battle of the conflict " was the Battle of Big Bethel, although after a brief summary of the Battle of Big Bethel he characterizes the early Civil War engagements without apparent distinction as " these first minor skirmishes.

Historian Fred Anderson describes Dinwiddie's instructions, which were issued without the knowledge or direction of the British government in London, as " an invitation to start a war ".

" Historian Fred Anderson describes Dinwiddie's instructions, which were issued without the knowledge or direction of the British government in London, as " an invitation to start a war.

Historian Albert Mathiez argues that the authority of the Committee of Public Safety was based on the necessities of war, as those in power realized that deviating from the will of the people was a temporary emergency response measure in order to secure the ideals of the Republic.

Historian Jackson Turner Main wrote that, " to them, the man of ' federal principles ' approved of ' federal measures ,' which meant those that increased the weight and authority or extended the influence of the Confederation Congress.

Historian James P. Duffy believed that Germany had no central authority over the development and construction of advanced weaponry.

Historian Cedric Cowing suggests that Stoughton's acceptance of spectral evidence was based partly in a need he saw to reassert Puritan authority in the province.

According to the Professor and Historian Oswald Balzer, shortly before began the preparations to the First Coalition of Piast Dukes formed by Leszek II the Black, Henry IV, Przemysł II and Henry III of Głogow, which had the intention to make the unification of Poland.

UNSCOM ’ s intention of identifying and eliminating Iraqi weapons programs resulted in numerous successes, illustrating the “ value of a system approach to biological arms verification ,” as former UNSCOM Historian Stephen Black has written.

Historian Harold Larrabee points out that this would have exposed Clinton in New York to blockade by the French if Graves had successfully entered the bay ; if Graves did not do so, de Barras ( carrying the siege equipment ) would have been outnumbered by Graves if de Grasse did not sail out in support.

Historian and former MP and Trudeau biographer John English said " I don't think it does any good to do this kind of historical ransacking to try to destroy reputations ".

* Historian Robert Beverley, Jr., in his History and Present State of Virginia ( 1705 ), wrote that the " priests and conjurers " of the Virginia Indian tribes " perform their adorations and conjurations " in the Occaneechi language, much " as the Catholics of all nations do their Mass in the Latin.

Historian Fred Anderson wrote that the purpose of the Act was “ to resolve the problems of finance and control that plagued the postwar empire .” To do this “ three kinds of measures ” were implemented -- “ those intended to make customs enforcement more effective, those that placed new duties on items widely consumed in America, and those that adjusted old rates in such a way as to maximize revenues .”

Historian Kenneth M. Stampp claimed that each side supported states ' rights or federal power only when it was convenient to do so.

Historian Richard Pankhurst offers the date of 1456 for the date of the founding of this church, providing a plausible argument that the light in the sky was Halley's Comet, which could have been in Shewa that year, although the traditional dates ( 10th day of the month of Maggabit, i. e. 6 or 7 March ) do not coincide with the days that the comet was most visible ( 13 through 17 June ).