Historian Carlo Ginzburg has identified remarkably similar beliefs existing throughout Europe for over a thousand years, whereby men and women were thought to leave their bodies in spirit and follow a goddess variously called Holda, Diana, Herodias, Signora Oriente, Richella, Arada and Perchta.

Historian Carlo D ' Este notes that members of Eisenhower's staff denied that there was ever an affair between them, and dismisses Summersby's book as " fanciful ".< ref >

* Carlo Ginzburg The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice, ( ISBN 1-85984-371-9 )

Historian Carlo Ginzburg posits a relationship between the Benandanti cult and the shamanism of the Baltic and Slavic cultures, a result of diffusion from a central Eurasian origin, possibly 6, 000 years ago.

Historian Edward Ingram has noted that if Nelson had successfully intercepted Bonaparte at sea as ordered, the ensuing battle could have annihilated both the French fleet and the transports.

Historian Neil Kent has speculated that the area may have been the victim of an enemy assault.

Historian J. P Harris has pointed out that the Germans never used the word blitzkrieg.

Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.

Historian John Lewis Gaddis has summarized the turnaround in evaluations by historians:

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

Historian Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: " Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy.

Historian of fascism Stanley Payne has said about Saddam Hussein's regime: " There will probably never again be a reproduction of the Third Reich, but Saddam Hussein has come closer than any other dictator since 1945 ".

Historian Frank Zelko has commented that " unlike Friends of the Earth, for example, which sprung fully formed from the forehead of David Brower, Greenpeace developed in a more evolutionary manner.

Historian Paul Nagel has noted that this letter reached Washington, and that parts of it were used by Washington when drafting his farewell address.

Historian Thomas Bailey observed, " Seldom has the public mind been so successfully poisoned against an honest and high-minded man.

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

Historian David Dumville has written: " I think we can dispose of him quite briefly.

Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking " collective bargaining by riot ", which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration, as the scattering of manufactories throughout the country made large-scale strikes impractical.

Quoting Gérard de Nerval Art Historian Jean-Yves Heurtebise has further proposed that Dutch mannerism would typically use an otherwise general principle of Art History consisting of " the ability to capture what is different and to become different itself in this process "

The Historian Andre Wink has recorded Hiuen Tsang's notings on the language and script in use in Makran.

Historian S. C. Rowell has described his rise to power as taking place through " the familiar processes of marriage, murder and military conquest.

Historian and Africanist Roland Oliver has described the scene as follows:

Historian Knud Haakonssen has noted that in the eighteenth century, Cumberland was commonly placed alongside Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf " in the triumvirate of seventeenth-century founders of the ' modern ' school of natural law.

Historian Walter Rodney has searched the reports of the early Portuguese travelers to the area and found mention in them of only one, quite particular, kind of slavery among the Africans.

Historian Ronald Numbers has been quoted as saying: " I can't say much about Gould's strengths as a scientist, but for a long time I've regarded him as the second most influential historian of science ( next to Thomas Kuhn ).

Historian Nicholas Edsall writes, Stonewall has been compared to any number of acts of radical protest and defiance in American history from the Boston Tea Party on.

Historian Paul Israel has characterized Edison as a " freethinker ".

Historian John Hicks claims that the United States has never possessed for any considerable period of time the two party system in its pure and undefiled form.

Extensive research by Prison Historian and author Kenneth M. LaMaster has shown that the institution has never been referred to as the " Hot House ".

Historian Kay Sloan has shown how various reformist groups made social problem shorts and features during the silent era.

" Historian of Celtic poetics Robert Graves credited analepsis as a method of inventing his historical arguments in The White Goddess, and Mazatec medicine woman Maria Sabina credited the hallucinogenic psilocybe mushroom with the flow of her discourse.

Historian Hue-Tam Ho Tai suggests that the phrase Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương may have been coined by writers belonging to Hòa Hảo.

Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes that the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love, might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and its extraordinary power on the board, as might the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.

Historian Steven Palmer also has drawn parallels between the Hernández cult and that of the assassinated Costa Rican physician and politician Ricardo Moreno Cañas.

Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein claimed that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 had threatened the importance and survival of Greek scholarship, but publications such as those by the Aldine Press secured it.

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.

Certainly many of the new castles were transitory in nature: Historian Oliver Creighton observes that 56 % of those castles known to have been built during Stephen's reign have " entirely vanished ".

Historian Edward Acton argues that " by stubbornly refusing to reach any modus vivendi with the Progressive Bloc of the Duma ... Nicholas undermined the loyalty of even those closest to the throne opened an unbridgeable breach between himself and public opinion.

Historian Richard Mitchell states that patrician families were initially those who held positions within the priesthoods, and that the ancient Senate, composed of patricians, was a religious advisory body.

Historian and political scientist Maurice Manning wrote that Browne " had the capacity to inspire fierce loyalty, but many of those who worked with and against him over the years found him difficult, self-centred, unwilling to accept the good faith of his opponents and often profoundly unfair in his intolerance of those who disagreed with him ".

Historian E. Lennox Manton says, “... A large new pipeline takes it through those same conduits in the hills which were originally excavated by the legion.

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 Steven E. Woodworth wrote, " Beneath the ponderous dome of his high forehead, the General would gaze goggle-eyed at those who spoke to him, reflecting long before answering and simultaneously rubbing both elbows all the while, leading one observer to quip that the great intelligence he was reputed to possess must be located in his elbows.

Historian Nicholas von Hoffman wrote in The Washington Post that evidence revealed in the Venona project forced him to admit that McCarthy was " closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him ".

Historian Paul Walker writes: “ Ultimately, both views of him, the mad and despotic tyrant irrationally given to killing those around him on a whim, and the ideal supreme ruler, divinely ordained and chosen, whose every action was just and righteous, were to persist, the one among his enemies and those who rebelled against him, and the other in the hearts of true believers, who, while perhaps perplexed by events, nonetheless remained avidly loyal to him to the end.

Historian Fred Anderson contrasted the mob actions in New York with those in Boston.

Historian Mark Phillips states that all subsequent Florentine accounts of the tyrannical regime of Walter VI of Brienne — including those by Leonardo Bruni and Niccolò Machiavelli — were based upon the primary source of Villani's Cronica.

Historian Thomas J. McGuire says that 53 Americans were buried on the battlefield but " whether these were all of the American dead or only those found on the campsite-battlefield is uncertain.

Historian Athan Theoharis maintains betrayal myths were used in part by those opposing US membership in the United Nations.

Historian Violet Barnes observed that those who made this complaint had, during the period when the colonial charter was in effect, excluded large numbers of voters through the requirement of church membership, and then taxed them.

Historian John Harris has asserted that the Sikhs wanted to avenge the annexation of the Sikh Empire eight years earlier by the Company with the help of Purabias (' Easterners '); Biharis and those from the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh who had formed part of the East India Company's armies in the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars.

Historian Peter Linebaugh asserts that regardless of her guilt or innocence, her conviction on such flimsy evidence indicates the bias of 18th century English courts against the trade of prostitution and those who worked in the industry.

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 .”

In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian wrote that Di Xin, in the early part of his reign, had abilities which surpassed those of the ordinary man, was quick-witted and quick-tempered.

Historian Bartolomé Mitre stated that French and Beruti distributed blue and white ribbons, similar to the modern cockade of Argentina, among those present.