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 in opinion polls once rated Johnson " near great ", but have since reevaluated and now consider Johnson " a flat failure ".

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 consider it unlikely that Catherine's father, Sir Thomas, would take his pregnant wife on an arduous two week journey north over execrable roads to give birth in a crumbling castle in which neither of them seemed to spend much time.

Historians Caro and Dallek consider Lyndon Johnson the most effective Senate majority leader in history.

Historians generally consider Manchukuo a puppet state of Imperial Japan because of the Japanese military's strong presence and strict control of the government administration.

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.

Historians consider the Mission's pastoral location in the valley of the San Antonio River along the Santa Lucia Mountains as an outstanding example of early mission life.

Historians like Milcíades Peña consider this historical period of the Americas as pre-capitalist, as most production of the coastal cities was destined to overseas markets.

Historians consider it to be the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.

Historians consider Hongwu to be one of the most significant emperors of China.

Historians now consider Rogers's story to be unreliable.

Historians consider the Athenian 5th and 6th centuries BCE as the Golden Age of sculpture and architecture.

Historians traditionally consider many sovereign states ' history within a framework of successive dynasties, e. g., China, Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire.

Historians consider that the failure of the Athenian intervention in Sicily was largely due to the inadequacy of Nicias ’ military leadership.

Historians consider the treaty to be a great achievement for the U. S., as time validated Adams's vision that it would allow the U. S. to open trade with the Orient across the Pacific.

Historians have debated Riel's motivations for allowing the execution, as they consider it his one great political blunder.

Historians consider these versions to be apocryphal in varying degrees.

Historians generally consider the expedition to have been a wasted opportunity: as a result of this, Owen Roe O ' Neill considered Castlehaven to be incompetent and Thomas Preston also developed a dislike of him.

Historians agree the Copperheads ' goal of negotiating a peace and restoring the Union with slavery was naive and impractical, for the Confederates refused to consider giving up their independence.

Historians consider the episode was a decisive step towards the end of British rule in India.

Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.

Historians consider that he may have taken this action so that the Ionians would not revolt a second time after the Persian army had passed through.

Historians consider the techniques and tools for tiling as well advanced, evidenced by the fine workmanship and close fit of the tiles.

Historians widely believe that the widower Thomas Jefferson, both before and during his presidency of the United States in the early 19th century, had an intimate relationship of 38 years with his mixed-race slave Sally Hemings, in such an arrangement, and fathered all of her six children of record.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

Historians, political scientists and other scholars have long debated the exact nature of fascism.

Historians like Donald Morris hold that his political genius laid the basis for a relatively light hegemony.

Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party ( since the Confederacy had no political parties ).

Historians in the " Whiggish " tradition, focusing on documents such as the Domesday Book and Magna Carta, trace a progressive and universalist course of political and economic development in England over the medieval period.

Historians have reached a broad consensus on the content, function and importance of the image of Bismarck within Germany's political culture over the past 125 years.

Historians have traditionally blamed Rudolf's preoccupation with the arts, occult sciences, and other personal interests as the reason for the political disasters of his reign.

Historians in the " Whiggish " tradition that emerged during the Victorian period traced a progressive and universalist course of political and economic development in England over the medieval period.

Historians write that most such political and economic commentators had only a superficial understanding of Darwin's scientific theory, and were as strongly influenced by other concepts about social progress and evolution, such as the Lamarckian ideas of Spencer and Haeckel, as they were by Darwin's work.

Historians credit Roosevelt for changing the nation's political system by permanently placing the presidency at center stage and making character as important as the issues.

Historians have seen in his occult activities a penchant for forging unities from antitheses, thus having latent political import.

* Historians have employed political economy to explore the ways in the past that persons and groups with common economic interests have used politics to effect changes beneficial to their interests.

Historians were critical of the Bastille in the early 19th century, but now believe the fortress to have been a relatively well-administered institution, albeit deeply implicated in the system of French policing and political control during the 18th century.

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.

Historians until recently agreed that before 3000 BC the political life of the city was headed by a priest-king ( ensi ) assisted by a council of elders and based on these temples, but some more recent authors have asserted that the cities had secular rulers from the earliest times.

" 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 of both schools focused on the purge of political, intellectual, economic or military elites, and the struggle between the center and regional party cliques.

Historians have seen three Prussian goals: as a political tool to eliminate Austrian influence in Germany ; as a way to improve the economies ; and to strengthen Germany against potential French aggression while reducing the economic independence of smaller states.

Historians are still skeptical as to whether Ryti's Freemasonry influenced his political actions.

When H. A. L. Fisher in 1928 gave the Raleigh Lecture on The Whig Historians, from Sir James Mackintosh to Sir George Trevelyan he implied that " Whig historian " was adequately taken as a political rather than a progressive or teleological label ; this put the concept into play.

Ian Lustick, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, writes of Karsh's attacks on the New Historians that, " however likely readers are to be impressed by the intensity of Karsh's pristine faith in Zionism, they are sure to be stunned by the malevolence of his writing and confused by the erratic, sloppy nature of his analysis.