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 Ronald Hutton has argued that there is no necessary correlation between the worship of female deities and relative levels of social or legal egalitarianism, noting the late classical Greek and Roman religions, in which goddesses played important roles.

Historian Ronald Hutton suggested in Triumph of the Moon that this identification with Herodias was inspired by the work of Jules Michelet in Satanism and Witchcraft.

B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 1920 ), adding sketches of the work's content and significance, and author biography: Ronald T. Ridley " Friedrich Münzer's Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families ", XIX-XXXVIII ; Thérèse Ridley " The Fate of a Historian ", XXXIX-LVII ; and a photograph of Münzer opposite the title page translation

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.

Historian Ronald Hutton records comments from British practitioners of Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca that distinctions between the two traditions have blurred in the last couple of decades, and some initiates of both traditions have recognized initiation within one as qualification for the other.

Historian Ronald Hutton remarked that " It is quite possible that pre-Christian mythology lies behind this tradition " of a belief in familiar spirits.

Historian Ronald Hutton concurred with this assessment, remarking that " Looking at the recorded charms dispensed by magical practitioners, it is obvious that many – perhaps the majority – are Christian in character.

Historian Ronald Hutton however believed that it was more accurate to state that the cunning craft, rather than dying out, " changed character " by being absorbed into other magical currents.

Historian Ronald Hutton noted that the low magic of the cunning folk was one of the lesser influences upon the development of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based groups in the early twentieth century.

Historian of creationism Ronald L. Numbers states that the Society " acquired a well-deserved reputation for welcoming only committed flood geologists.

Historian Ronald Hyam comments that " Ceylon furnished MacDonald with a lethal combination of a military command which was inactive and uninteresting, and a community of boys who were interesting and very active.

Historian Ronald Mellor considers it " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

Historian Ronald Mellor considers it " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

* Paul F. Grendler, " Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism ", in: Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt, hrsg.

* Peter W. Edbury and John G. Rowe, William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East.

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 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.

* A Brief History of Westford, by Robert W. Oliphant, Town Historian.

* Historian Donald W. Meinig was born in Palouse in 1924.

Historian Jere W. Roberson wrote:

Historian Stephen W. Sears, however, states that there is no basis to the claims that Hooker was either a heavy drinker, or that he was ever intoxicated on the battlefield.

Historian Alfred W. Crosby speculated the flu originated in Kansas.

Historian Donald W. Meinig says that imperial behavior for the United States dates at least to the Louisiana Purchase, which he describes as an " imperial acquisition – imperial in the sense of the aggressive encroachment of one people upon the territory of another, resulting in the subjugation of that people to alien rule.

" Music Historian Maxim W. Furek released the comprehensive The Death Proclamation of Generation X: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Goth, Grunge and Heroin, i-Universe.

" Historian Kenneth W. Noe wrote that Morgan's feat " in many ways surpassed J. E. B.

Historian Kenneth Stampp has captured the Copperhead spirit in his depiction of Congressman Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana:

It put an end to the War of the Castilian Succession, which ended with a victory of the Catholic Monarchs on land < ref name =" Bailey W. Diffie ">< sub >< big >↓</ big ></ sub > Bailey W. Diffie and George D. Winius “ In a war in which the Castilians were victorious on land and the Portuguese at sea, …” in Foundations of the Portuguese empire 1415-1580, volume I, University of Minnesota Press, 1985, p. 152 .</ ref > and a Portuguese victory on the sea .< ref name =" Historian Malyn Newitt ">< sub >< big >↓</ big ></ sub > Historian Malyn Newitt: “ All things considered, it is not surprising that the Portuguese emerged victorious from this first maritime colonial war.

* Barrow, Clyde W., More Than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A.

Historian Allan W. Eckert wrote:

Historian James W. Cook has suggested that Juba and Diamond may have staged their first competition as a form of mutual publicity.

" Historian Robert W. Thurston similarly argued in 1996 that Khrushchev " had much to gain in the attacks he made on his predecessor " and that neither his attacks on Beria or his claims in regards to Stalin's involvement in Kirov's death are particularly reliable.

A Three-cornered Life: The Historian W. K. Hancock, University of New South Wales Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-74223-126-6

Historian Daniel W. Stowell concludes that white Southerners appropriated the term to describe the political transformation they desired, that is, the end of Reconstruction.

Historian William W. Hagen states that after helping to capture Lwów, some army units together with Polish civilians, engaged in three days of violence against the Jewish and Ukrainian inhabitants of the city, resulting in hundreds of civilian deaths.

Historian R. W. Southern disagrees with Boswell's claims and has written that " the only relevant generalization which emerges from the penitential codes down to the eleventh century is that sodomy was treated on about the same level as copulation with animals.

" 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 Allan Nevins argued that the newly inaugurated Lincoln made three miscalculations: underestimating the gravity of the crisis, exaggerating the strength of Unionist sentiment in the South, and not realizing the Southern Unionists were insisting there be no invasion.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

Historian Thomas Woods argues that the crashes were caused by various privately-owned banks with state charters that issued paper money, supposedly convertible to gold, in amounts greatly exceeding their gold reserves.

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 Richard Abels sees Alfred's educational and military reforms as complementary.

Late Roman World and its Historian.

Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian.

" 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 Joseph Allen recounts that on one occasion Nelson, whose eyesight was still suffering following his wound, offered toothpicks to an officer who had lost his teeth and then passed a snuff-box to an officer whose nose had been torn off, causing much embarrassment.

" 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 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.

The thesis that the Third Reich went to war on the basis of " blitzkrieg economics " was criticized by Richard Overy in the 1980s and Historian George Raudzens highlighted the many, somewhat conflicting, senses in which historians have used the word.

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

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.

The written history of China can be found as early as the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1700 – 1046 BC ), although ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian ( ca.

The Xia Dynasty of China ( from c. 2100 to c. 1600 BC ) is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals.