Historian Geoffrey Hosking in his 2005 Modern Scholar lecture course suggested that citizenship in ancient Greece arose from an appreciation for the importance of freedom.

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 Jack Oruch has made the case that the traditions associated with " Valentine's Day ", documented in Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Foules and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, had no such tradition before Chaucer.

Historian Geoffrey Elton revolutionised the study of Tudor government by his 1953 book The Tudor Revolution in Government.

Historian Paul K. Davis wrote, " Having defeated Eudes, he turned to the Rhine to strengthen his northeastern borders-but in 725 was diverted south with the activity of the Muslims in Acquitane.

Historian Benjamin Platt Thomas wrote that Booth " won celebrity with theater-goers by his romantic personal attraction ", but that he was " too impatient for hard study " and his " brilliant talents had failed of full development.

Historian Allan Nevins wrote that " two interconnected battles began to rage, one in Congress and one in the country at large: each fought with a pertinacity, bitterness, and rancor unknown even in Wilmot Proviso days.

Historian Michael Morrison wrote:

Historian Scott Eyman wrote, " As the film ended and applause grew with the houselights, Sam Goldwyn's wife Frances looked around at the celebrities in the crowd.

Historian Peter Kolchin wrote, " By breaking up existing families and forcing slaves to relocate far from everyone and everything they knew " this migration " replicated ( if on a reduced level ) many of horrors " of the Atlantic slave trade.

Historian Henry Commager wrote that " Even when definitions of terrorism allow for state terrorism, state actions in this area tend to be seen through the prism of war or national self-defense, not terror .” While states may accuse other states of state-sponsored terrorism when they support insurgencies, individuals who accuse their governments of terrorism are seen as radicals, because actions by legitimate governments are not generally seen as illegitimate.

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.

Historian Max Boot wrote, " In the late 1970s, America's enemies seized power in countries from Mozambique to Iran to Nicaragua.

Historian Tudor Jenks wrote that Longfellow's book had " no claim to be considered other than a pleasant little fairystory, and as an entirely misleading sketch of men and matters in old Plymouth.

Historian Neal Gabler wrote " one of the stubborn fallacies of movie history is that the men who created the film industry were all impoverished young vulgarians .... Zukor clearly didn't fit this profile.

In his history of Palestine under the British Mandate, One Palestine, Complete, " New Historian " Tom Segev wrote of the kibbutz movement:

Historian David McCullough wrote what is widely regarded as the city's definitive history, The Johnstown Flood, in 1968.

Historian Jere W. Roberson wrote:

Historian John C. Waugh wrote of Pickett, " An excellent brigade commander, he never proved he could handle a division.

Historian David Chandler quotes Saxe: Chandler also states that Saxe admired the superior discipline and formations of the allies and quotes from a letter that Saxe wrote to Frederick the Great in September 1746:

Historian Digby Smith wrote that the French lost 600 killed and wounded out of the 13, 300 infantry and 1, 700 cavalry that were engaged in the action.

Historian Gary B. Nash wrote:

Historian Barbara B. Diefendorf, Professor of History at Boston University, wrote that Simon Vigor had " said if the King ordered the Admiral ( Coligny ) killed, ' it would be wicked not to kill him '.

Historian John Major also wrote about Harry in 1518.

Historian Mark M. Boatner wrote,

Tarbell disliked the muckracker label and wrote an article, " Muckraker or Historian ," in which she justified her efforts for exposing the oil trust.

Historian Alan Brinkley wrote that 133 Indians were killed, 105 of whom were women and children.

" 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 H. P. R. Finberg suggests that the foundation charter may have been drafted in the 9th century, based on some authentic material.

Historian David Woods further notes that Zosimus ' Historia Nova includes a description of Julian punishing cavalry deserters in just such a manner, further strengthening the argument that the author of The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus took material from the stories of martyrs of Julian's time rather than that of Galerius.

The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan ( d. 110 BCE ) and his son Sima Qian ( 145 – 86 BCE ) established the standard model for all of imperial China's Standard Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao ( 3 – 54 CE ), his son Ban Gu ( 32 – 92 CE ), and his daughter Ban Zhao ( 45 – 116 CE ).

Historian David B. Danbom explains, " The Physiocrats damned cities for their artificiality and praised more natural styles of living.

But according to the " Biography of Li Si " in the Records of the Grand Historian, the naming taboo was not adhered to universally: " General Tian and Fusu were living far away.

The only account of the life of Zhuangzi is a brief sketch in chapter 63 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, where he is described as a minor official from the town of Meng ( in modern Anhui ) in the state of Song, living in the time of King Hui of Liang and King Xuan of Qi ( late 4th century BCE ).

* Diana Pinto ( Historian ) ( born 1949 ), an intellectual historian and writer living in Paris

Historian William H. McNeill has noted that the plague was transferred from ground rodents living in southern Chinese and Burmese Himalayan foothills to Mongol soldiers when they invaded the area in 1252.

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

" Historian Ron Chernow says of this " he wasn't calling for peaceful protests or civil disobedience: he was calling for outright rebellion, if needed, against the federal government of which he was vice president.

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

Historian Michael Lynch comments that " the Scottishness of Balmoral helped to give the monarchy a truly British dimension for the first time ".

Historian Kenneth Macksey found Liddell Hart's original letters to Guderian, in the General's papers, requesting that Guderian give him credit for " impressing him " with his ideas of armoured warfare.

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 Ian Kershaw observes that many Nazis seemed to have a " psychological block " at the end of the regime, refusing to recognise their responsibility for the barbaric actions that occurred during the Third Reich.

Historian Paul Nagel argues that, like Abraham Lincoln after him, Adams suffered from depression for much of his life.

" Historian Ron Chernow says of this " he wasn't calling for peaceful protests or civil disobedience: he was calling for outright rebellion, if needed, against the federal government of which he was vice president.

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

Historian James Lockhart suggests that the people needed to have a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat, and Moctezuma naturally fell into that role.

" Historian Richard Ellis ( 1998 ) says that the SDS's search for their own identity " increasingly meant rejecting, even demonizing, liberalism.

Historian and philosopher of science Patrick Singy claims that the DSM-5 is about to drastically loosen the criteria for paraphilias and to make them directly dependent on cultural values.

He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography for his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian, a " Jizhuanti "- style general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Wu of Han.

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 Barbara Bell suggests that the paintings may have been made for tourists on Seneca Lake boat tours

A star catalogue is featured in one of the chapters of the late 2nd-century-BC history work Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145-86 BC ) and contains the " schools " of Shi Shen and Gan De's work ( i. e. the different constellations they allegedly focused on for astrological purposes ).

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 David Carter remarks in his book about the Stonewall riots that the bar itself was a complex business that represented a community center, an opportunity for the Mafia to blackmail its own customers, a home, and a place of " exploitation and degradation ".

Historian Lillian Faderman calls the riots the " shot heard round the world ", explaining, " The Stonewall Rebellion was crucial because it sounded the rally for that movement.