Historian Eric Foner argues that Paine's works " forged a new political language " designed to bring politics to the people, using a " clear, simple and straightforward " style.

Historian Eric Foner argues, " What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and that for blacks its failure was a disaster whose magnitude cannot be obscured by the genuine accomplishments that did endure.

Historian Eric Van Young believes that such ideas gave the movement supernatural and religious legitimacy that went as far as messianic expectation.

Historian Eric Lott has identified the irony of this arrangement: a black man imitating a white man imitating a black man.

Historian Eric H. Walther describes Miles tenure in the Confederate Congress:

Historian Eric A. Johnson used Löffler as an example of what he called " local Eichmanns " in his book, Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.

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.

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.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

Historian Ira Berlin called this forced migration the Second Middle Passage.

Historian John Stow, writing in his Survey of London ( 1598 ), noted ' this place is called the Star Chamber, because the roof thereof is decked with the likeness of stars gilt ...' The chamber's description is regarded as the most likely explanation for its name by the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Historian and Teddy Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris called Wilson in the Governor's race a " dark horse " and attributed his and others ' success against the Taft Republicans in 1910 in part to the emergent national progressive message enunciated by Roosevelt in his post-presidency.

Historian Michael Beschloss called Daley " the pre-eminent mayor of the 20th century.

Historian and Point du Sable biographer John F. Swenson has called these claims " elaborate, undocumented assertions ... in a fanciful biography ".

Historian Robert W. Morrow speculated that much of the early criticism, which he called " surprisingly intense ", stemmed from cultural and historical reasons in regards to, as he put it, " the place of children in American society and the controversies about television's effects on them ".

Historian Robert Poole has called the Peterloo Massacre one of the defining moments of its age.

Historian John D. Post has called this " the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world ".

Historian and biographer Stephen W. Sears has called McClellan's actions " essentially sound " if he had been as outnumbered as he believed, but McClellan in fact rarely had less than a two-to-one advantage over his opponents in 1861 and 1862.

Historian William G. Thomas writes, " At a cost of nearly $ 300, 000, the N. Y., P. & N. was dredging a new harbor out of a large fresh-water lagoon between King ’ s and Old Plantation creeks in lower Northampton County, and Scott planned to develop a new town around it called Cape Charles City.

He felt that history should be open to all and enjoyed being called the " People's Historian " and the " Everyman's Historian ".

Historian Geoffrey Best called the period from 1856 to 1909 the law of war ’ s “ epoch of highest repute .” The defining aspect of this period was the establishment, by states, of a positive legal or legislative foundation ( i. e., written ) superseding a regime based primarily on religion, chivalry, and customs.

Historian and journalist T. Ryle Dwyer has called him " the most popular Irish politician since Daniel O ' Connell.

Historian Richard A. McFarlane has called Rhodes " as integral a participant in southern African and British imperial history as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln are in their respective eras in United States history .... ost histories of South Africa covering the last decades of the nineteenth century are contributions to the historiography of Cecil Rhodes.

Historian Judith Binney called herself a Pākehā and said, " I think it is the most simple and practical term.

Historian James Shotwell has called this encounter with the antiquity of Egypt an influence on Hecataeus's scepticism: he recognized that oral history is untrustworthy.

Historian Thomas Bicknell called it " the most remarkable document that was issued during the period preceding the War of the Revolution.

There was less emphasis on the Great Apostasy and a growing belief that the First Vision itself was not necessarily identical with Joseph Smith's later reconstructions and interpretations of the vision, what one RLDS Church Historian has called " genuine historical sophistication.

Historian Robert C. Fuller, a professor of religious studies at Bradley University, wrote that Seth filled the role of guide for what Fuller called " unchurched American spirituality ", related to concepts of reincarnation, karma, free will, ancient metaphysical wisdom, and " Christ consciousness ".

This Burkean position is sometimes also called Christian Historian.

Historian Richard J. Hofstadter called it, in his 1964 essay " The Paranoid Style in American Politics ", " robably the most widely read contemporary book in the United States before Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin.

Historian Bruce Bartlett, former domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan, has called Starve the Beast " the most pernicious fiscal doctrine in history ", and blames it for the increase in US government debt since the 1980s.