Historian William James remarked that the " general return of loss among the militia and volunteers, no where appears ".

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

A so-called " Real Second Congress " was convened in Moscow between June 9 and June 23, immediately prior to the 3rd World Congress of the Comintern. Historian E. H. Carr remarked:

Historian Adolf von Harnack deduced from this that the family was of Jewish origin, but this cannot be certain.

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 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.

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.

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 and biographer William Hepworth Dixon considered that Bacon's name could be included in the list of Founders of the United States of America.

* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova purports to be a book by the main character, and further contains a number of other letters, books, and maps relating to Dracula and the main character's friends and family.

Historian John Rodden stated: " John Podhoretz did claim that if Orwell were alive today, he ’ d be standing with the neo-conservatives and against the Left.

Historian Robert Nisbet thought him to be " the true author of National Socialism ".

Historian Nancy Rabinowitz argues that ancient Greek red vase images portraying women with their arms around another woman's waist, or leaning on a woman's shoulders can be construed as expressions of romantic desire.

Historian Michael Clanchy noted " the medieval axiom that laymen are illiterate and its converse that clergy are literate ", so it may be the case that few soldiers read Vegetius ' work.

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

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.

Historian Stanley Jones, in his study of the 1896 election, suggests that western Democrats would have opposed Cleveland even if the party had held its congressional majority in 1894 ; with the disastrous defeat, they believed the party would be wiped out in the West if it did not support silver.

Historian Callinicus dedicated a ten-book history of Alexandria to a " Cleopatra ", who can only be Zenobia.

This date could be revised if the tomb of Qin Shi Huang is excavated and the account in the Records of the Grand Historian concerning a model map of the empire is proven to be true.

The Xia Dynasty (; ; c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC ) is the first dynasty in China to be described in ancient historical chronicles such as Bamboo Annals, Classic of History and Records of the Grand Historian.

Historian and linguist Andrew Dalby says most references to butter in ancient Near Eastern texts should more correctly be translated as ghee.

Historian Kiyoshi Watatani states that the ninja were trained to be particularly secretive about their actions and existence:

Historian Norman Cantor who specialized in the medieval period, teaching and writing at Columbia and New York University, says in 1993: " It may be true that the Arabs had now fully extended their resources and they would not have conquered France, but their defeat ( at Tours ) in 732 put a stop to their advance to the north.

The relevant records can be found in Records of the Grand Historian in 91 BC, Book of Han in AD 111, Book of the Later Han in the 5th century and Records of the Three Kingdoms in the 3rd century.

Historian Richard Kurin builds a highly speculative case for 1653 as the year of acquisition, but the most that can be said with certainty is that Tavernier obtained the blue diamond during one of his five voyages to India between the years 1640 and 1667.

* * Creviston, Vernon P., '“ No King unless it be a Constitutional King ”: Rethinking the Place of the Quebec Act in the Coming of the American Revolution ,' Historian, 73, 3 ( 2011 ), 463 – 479.

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 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.

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.