Historian Neil Davidson notes that “ after 1746 there was an entirely new level of participation by Scots in political life, particularly outside Scotland ”.

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 Barry Adam notes, " Every social movement must choose at some point what to retain and what to reject out of its past.

Historian Henry Reynolds notes of George Augustus Robinson: " His guilt and need for self-justification were clearly apparent in a eulogy he delivered on the death of Manalargenna in December 1836.

Military Historian Jacques Garnier, analysing the battle in Jean Tulard's Dictionnaire Napoléon, notes that only the muddy, sodden ground, hampering an efficient deployment of the French artillery and infantry, prevented a much more emphatic victory.

Historian Mark Dion notes that Fernão related the same story in his writing, only adding that a Muslim in their society was the only acceptable replacement as ruler.

Historian Tom Buchanan notes that in parts of the British public at the time, " Cruelty and violence were thought to be ' old Spanish customs ' — due in equal parts to the legacy of the Inquisition and the bull-ring.

Historian George Bilias notes that had Howe attacked Brooklyn Heights, the capture of even half of Washington's army, and possibly Washington himself, might have had a significant effect on the rebellion.

Historian Constance Myers notes that while " initial prognoses for the union of Trotskyists and Socialists were favorable ," it was only later when " constant and protracted contact caused differences to surface.

Historian Stephen Fox notes, " In the 1930s most of the three thousand members were middle-aged Republicans.

Historian Nikki Keddie notes that the movement was significant because “ Iranians saw for the first time that it was possible to win out against the Shah and foreign interests … there is a direct line from the coalition which participated in the tobacco movement … culminating in the Constitutional Revolution ” and arguably the 1979 Iranian Revolution as well.

Historian Alexandra Walsham notes that the modern understanding of the word " toleration " may be very different from its historic meaning.

Historian David Rock notes that, beyond putting an end to caudillismo, Sarmiento's main achievements in government concerned his promotion of education.

" Historian Hubert F. van der Berg also notes that the socialist ideal of " a new life ", implicitly adopted by Janco, was a natural peacetime development of Dada's discourse about " the new man ".

Historian Jerah Johnson notes: “ Because most African slaves brought to Louisiana were males, great numbers married Indian women, whom the French colonials had early enslaved as food growers, cooks, bedfellows, and translators.

" Historian Michael Foss also notes this contrast " For more than three hundered and fifty years, from the time when the Caliph Omar made a treaty with the Patriarch Sophronius until 1009, when mad al-Hakim began attacks on Christians and Jews, the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land were open to the West, with an easy welcome and the way there was no more dangerous than a journey from Paris to Rome .... Soon al-Hakim the panic was over.

Historian Erich Haberer notes that many survived and made sense of the " totalitarian atomization " of society by seeking conformity with Communism.

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

Historian George Herring notes the " remarkable and fortuitous economic and diplomatic gains " produced by the Jay Treaty.

Historian Benson Bobrick is critical of this and notes the vagueness of the details in the citation.

Historian Gerald Sorin notes:

Historian Theodore Draper notes that Browder " was influenced by an offshoot of the syndicalist movement which believed in working in the AF of L ( American Federation of Labor ).

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 >

Historian Jacek Jędruch notes that out of the 53 disrupted sejms, 32 were disrupted due to liberum veto.

" Historian Peter Padfield opined that " Himmler ... appeared the most powerful man under Hitler.

Historian David Fitzpatrick observes, " The guerrilla fighters ... were vastly outnumbered by the forces of the Crown ...

Historian Richard Altick writes that " To judge from the number of references to it in the private letters and memoirs of the 1840s ... Punch had become a household word within a year or two of its founding, beginning in the middle class and soon reaching the pinnacle of society, royalty itself ".

Historian R. H. Davis's influential biography paints a picture of a weak king: a capable military leader in the field, full of activity and pleasant, but " beneath the surface ... mistrustful and sly ", with poor strategic judgement that ultimately undermined his reign.

Historian Martin Duberman writes, " The decades preceding Stonewall ... continue to be regarded by most gays and lesbians as some vast neolithic wasteland ".

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

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 Larry Tagg described Hill as " always emotional ... so high strung before battle that he had an increasing tendency to become unwell when the fighting was about to commence.

... it hath been the constant opinion of all Ages that the Parliament of England had an unquestionable power to limit, restrain and qualify the Succession as they pleased, and that in all Ages they have put their power in practice ; and that the Historian had reason for saying that seldom or never the third Heir in a right descent enjoyed the Crown of England.

Historian Douglas Hill characterized the Cree group as a " war party ... ready to take revenge for a winter of incalculable suffering " who " swooped on Battleford, killing six whites ".

Historian Dale Morgan wrote in 1949: " An interesting feature of the Church's doctrine is that it discriminates in no way against ... members of other racial groups, who are fully admitted to all the privileges of the priesthood.

Historian Michael Bonner points out that the term is also used due to the dramatic difference between al-Hakim and his predecessors and his successors while also pointing out such persecution is an extreme rarity in Islam during this era " In his capital of Cairo, this unbalanced ( and, in the view of most, mad ) caliph raged against the Christians in particular ... On the whole such episodes remained exceptional, like the episodes of forced conversion to Islam.

Historian Ian Kershaw contends that stories circulated at the time as to alleged " sexual deviant practices ought to be viewed as ... anti-Hitler propaganda ".

" Historian Peter Sanderson observed that while " Barbara Gordon initially conformed to hackneyed stereotypes as a dowdy librarian ... her transformation into Batgirl could be seen in retrospect as a symbol of the emerging female empowerment movement of the 1960s.

Historian Martin Windrow wrote that " in summer ' 44 Dirlewanger led his 4, 000 butchers, rapists and looters into action against the Warsaw Uprising, and quickly committed ... unspeakable crimes.

Historian Kenneth Scott Latourette wrote that " Hudson Taylor was, ... one of the greatest missionaries of all time, and ... one of the four or five most influential foreigners who came to China in the nineteenth century for any purpose ...".

Historian Nathaniel Burt described the new 1907 Clubhouse as " by far the best appointed ... of all Philadelphia clubs.

Historian Gerard Jones writes that, " Siegel flatly denied that Wylie's novel had influenced him in any way " although adding his own conjecture that " the timing and striking similarities ... would seem to leave no doubt of Gladiators role "

The rock critic Charles Shaar Murray, for example, called him " the Hoodie Historian ... throwing whatever passes for gang signs in the history department of the University of Sheffield ".

Although many reviewers compared The Historian to Dan Brown's historical thriller The Da Vinci Code ( 2003 ), Kostova has said her book " is part of a tradition where literary craft and experiments in form are all as important as action ... the only overlap is this idea of people searching for something in history.

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