Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

* John Lewis Gaddis, known as the " Dean of Cold War Historians ", was born in Cotulla in 1941.

Historians have also disagreed on what exactly the Cold War was, what the sources of the conflict were, and how to disentangle patterns of action and reaction between the two sides.

Historians commonly speak of three differing approaches to the study of the Cold War: " orthodox " accounts, " revisionism ", and " post-revisionism ".

John Lewis Gaddis ( born 1941 in Cotulla, Texas, U. S .) is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the " Dean of Cold War Historians " by The New York Times.

Historians associated with the Wisconsin school see parallels between 19th century Western rivalry with Russia and the Cold War tensions of the post – World War II period.

Historians now point out that with the Cold War tensions of the late 1940s and early 1950s in particular, leading the Liberal Party then would have been a challenge for anybody, and that in simply keeping the party together and in existence at all, Davies made a significant contribution.

Historians consider this the decisive factor in convincing Alboin to undertake a migration, even though there are indications that before the war with the Gepids a decision was maturing to leave for Italy, a country thousands of Lombards had seen in the 550s when hired by the Byzantines to fight in the Gothic War.

Historians have concluded that this assignment provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World War II.

Category: Historians of the American Civil War

Historians generally consider the Battle of Jumonville Glen as the opening battle of the French and Indian War in North America and the start of hostilities in the Ohio valley.

Historians and economists consider the GI Bill a major political success — especially in contrast to the treatments of World War I veterans — and a major contribution to America's stock of human capital that sped long-term economic growth.

Category: Historians of the American Civil War

* Avi Shlaim, The War of the Israeli Historians

): Revisioning the Civil War: Historians on Counterfactual Scenarios, ISBN 0-7864-2392-7

Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that, a year later, led to secession and the American Civil War.

Historians agree John Brown played a major role in the start of the Civil War.

* Fair, John D. " Politicians, Historians, and the War: A Reassessment of the Political Crisis of December 1916 ," The Journal of Modern History, Vol.

Category: Historians of the American Civil War

" Historians believe that Porter pardoned the rioters under political pressure that was rampant, in the years prior to the Civil War, regarding the issue of slavery.

Historians have noted the similarities between the events leading to the First Samnite War and events which according to Thucydides caused the Peloponnesian War, but there are differences as well.

Historians have noted the many similarities between the story of Publius Decius Mus, and an event said to have taken place on Sicily in 258 when the Romans were fighting the First Punic War against Carthage.

That same month she joined several other literary figures, including Dorothy Parker and Archibald MacLeish, in forming and funding a company, Contemporary Historians, Inc., to back a film project, The Spanish Earth, to demonstrate support for the anti-Franco forces in the Spanish Civil War.

* Richter, William L. " General Phil Sheridan, The Historians, and Reconstruction, Civil War History 33 # 2 ( June 1987 ): 131 – 54.

Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed during World War II.

Historians continue to debate the importance of the alliance system in igniting the Great War.

Historians debate whether or not the terms imposed on Germany helped the rise of Nazi Germany and were thus a cause of World War II, and whether the terms were the best that could be expected, given the mood of the victors.

Category: Historians of the American Civil War

Historians of New York City frequently point to Cosell's remark as an acknowledgement of both the city and the borough's decline.

Historians generally refer to the continuing Roman Empire in the east as the Byzantine Empire after Byzantium, the original name of the town that Constantine I would elevate to the Imperial capital as New Rome in 330 AD.

Historians have recognized La Guardia as among the best mayors in New York City history and perhaps among the greatest in modern U. S. history.

Historians have debated whether the " long depression " of the late 19th century stifled investment, but the New Zealanders found a way around adverse conditions.

* The International Dictionary of Intellectual Historians ( New Project launched by the Journal of the History of Ideas )

Historians argue that Johnson's presidency marked the peak of modern liberalism in the United States after the New Deal era.

The New Historians (, HaHistoryonim HaHadashim ) are a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians who have challenged traditional versions of Israeli history, including Israel's role in the Palestinian Exodus in 1948 and Arab willingness to discuss peace.

The term was coined in 1988 by one of the leading New Historians, Benny Morris.

According to Ethan Bronner of The New York Times, the New Historians sought to advance the peace process.

Karsh systematically rejects the methodology of new historians such as Morris in his book Fabricating Israeli History: The ' New Historians ' ( Israeli History, Politics and Society ) ( 2000 ).

* Fabricating Israeli history: The ' New Historians ', Efraim Karsh, ISBN 0-7146-8063-X.

* Nur Masalha, ‘ New History, Post-Zionism and Neo-Colonialism: A Critique of the Israeli ‘ New Historians ’’, Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 ( May 2011 ): 1-53.

The New Historians, in works like the essays of Bevington and Holbrook's The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque ( 1998 ), have pointed out the political subtext of masques.

Taylor And The Historians London ; New York: Routledge, 1986, revised edition 1999.

Historians gathered with the Plessy and Ferguson families and a member of the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans on February 12, 2009, to unveil a historical marker recalling the case.

Though a sociologist by training, Kimmerling was associated with the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who question the official narrative of Israel's creation.

He was dubbed one of Israel's New Historians, and himself insisted that he was a patriotic Zionist dedicated to celebrating the diversities of cultures within Israel, and to the ideals of a secular state.

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* Samuel, Raphael " British Marxist Historians, 1880 – 1980 " pp. 21 – 96 from New Left Review, Volume 120, March – April 1980.

Historians, including Donald Grinde of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, have claimed that the democratic ideals of the Gayanashagowa provided a significant inspiration to Benjamin Franklin, James Madison and other framers of the United States Constitution.

He is a key member of the group of Israeli historians known as the " New Historians ".

Morris coined the term " New Historians " to describe himself, and historians Avi Shlaim and Ilan Pappe.