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 consider this arrangement the political masterstroke of the Hispanic Middle Ages.

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 debate whether the dramatic changes merely reflect long-term trends that were more-or-less inevitable, or whether government intervention played the decisive role in changing the goals and roles of the chiefs.

Historians debate the significance of the election, with many arguing that it marked the beginning of modern American politics, with the decisive establishment of democracy and the formation of the two-party system.

Historians regard the battle as one of the most important clashes in the Wars of the Roses, since it brought about a decisive turn in the fortunes of the two houses.

Historians debate whether the dramatic changes merely reflect long-term trends that were more-or-less inevitable, or whether government intervention played the decisive role in changing the goals and roles of the chiefs.

Historians debate the significance of the election, with many arguing that it marked the beginning of modern American politics, with the decisive establishment of democracy and the formation of the two party system.

Historians often comment on mob rule as a factor in the rise of Rome and its maintenance, as the city of Rome itself was large — between 100, 000 and 250, 000 citizens — while the aristocracy and even military was very small by comparison to the citizenry.

Historians believe that the issue of Anglo-American settlement in the region was a primary cause of the French and Indian War and a contributing factor to the American Revolutionary War.

" Historians argue whether his death was a major factor in the rise of factionalism and the decline of a consensus among the revolutionaries, or whether it merely coincided with these events, but the breakdown of that consensus is as clear as the death of the man.

Historians have debated about just what kind of " peltasts " were affected by his reforms ; one of the most popular positions is that he improved the performance of the Greek skirmishers so that they would be able to engage in prolonged hand-to-hand fighting as part of the main battle line, while another strong opinion posits that he worked his changes upon the mercenary hoplites that were an important factor in late 5th-and early 4th-century B. C.

Historians have debated about just what kind of " peltasts " were affected by his reforms ; one of the most popular positions is that he improved the performance of the Greek skirmishers so that they would be able to engage in prolonged hand-to-hand fighting as part of the main battle line, while another strong opinion posits that he worked his changes upon the mercenary hoplites that were an important factor in late 5th-and early 4th-century B. C.

Historians have strongly disagreed whether this rehabilitation is convincing.

Historians tried to identify the others cycladic islands in the text but nothing is really convincing.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

Historians have written extensively about the migration, trade, colonization, and environmental history associated with gold rushes.

Historians have identified various factors that contributed to the migration of an estimated 12, 000 Voortrekkers to the future Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal regions.

Historians have also cited shortages of land and food as a reason for this migration, and political competition between Haynes and Winthrop.

Historians disagree as to whether the army returned to Ireland in 866, 867 or even in 869.

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.

Historians therefore disagree on what qualifies as membership of the Lunar Society, who can be considered to have been members, and even when the society can be said to have existed.

Historians and archaeologists often speak of the " Decapolis cities " and " Decapolis region " even when referring to these cities in later time periods.

Historians both in China and abroad have generally portrayed her as a despot and villain responsible for the fall of the Dynasty, while others have suggested that her opponents among the reformers succeeded in making her a scapegoat for problems beyond her control, that she stepped in to prevent disorder, that she was no more ruthless than other rulers, and that she was even an effective if reluctant reformer in the last years of her life.

In 1987, they were put on a watch list of persons banned from entering the United States and remained on the list even after the publication of the International Committee of Historians ' report on his military past in the Wehrmacht.

Historians have long puzzled over why most Republicans — even fire-eating abolitionists — gradually lost interest in the fate of the Freedmen after 1868.

Historians and liberation theologians cite the Appeal as an influential political and social document of the 19th century, even though Walker was largely ignored for his contribution to ending slavery in the United States before second half of the 20th century.

" Historians such as the German Ernst Nolte are, in some ways, even more dangerous than the deniers.

Historians have long disputed whether Congress actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, even though Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin all later wrote that they had signed it on that day.

One Yemenite Jewish document, found in the Cairo Genizah, claims that many Jews had not only accepted Muhammad as a prophet, but even desecrated Sabbath in order to join Muhammad in his struggle against the infidels ; Historians suggest that this document, called Dhimmat an-nabi Muhammad ( Muhammad ’ s Writ of Protection ), may have been fabricated by Yemenite Jews for the purpose of self-defence.

Historians consider it a " triumph for progressive reform ," even though the principal sponsor was the Conservative minister and president of the Board of Education, R. A. Butler.

The Historians are in charge of collecting and preserving highly prized, often dangerous, but often decorative and sometimes even useful ancient artifacts which are sought after and traded, the head of this guild is Thaddeus Valentine.

Historians such as Donald point out it was not unusual at that time for two men to share even a small bed due to financial or other circumstances, without anything sexual being implied.

Historians have speculated whether Williams was the culprit and have even questioned whether the London Monster existed at all beyond the hysteria.

Historians claim that very large numbers of Jews – as high as 80, 000 – arrived after the destruction of the First Temple, to join others already long established in places such as the oasis of Khaybar as well as the trading colonies in Medina and Mecca ( where they even had their own cemetery ).

Historians in the 19th century blamed Tarleton for the massacre, even though most contemporary references to it did not describe it as such.

Historians of machine tools, even before the numerical control era, sometimes spoke figuratively of machine tools as a class of machines that is unique because they have the ability " to reproduce themselves ", by which they meant the ability to make copies of all of their parts.

Historians of educational reform during the Progressive Era tend to highlight the fact that many progressive policies and reforms were very different and, at times, even contradictory.

Historians have considered this view and most agree that Bridport's retirement was premature: In 1827 James noted that the scattered remains of the French fleet could easily have been attacked by the unengaged British rear with the advantage of the weather gage, while William Laird Clowes wrote in 1901 that " We may be pretty sure that had a Nelson, a Hawke or even a Boscawen commanded on the occasion, the fleet of Villaret would have been annihilated.

Historians of the 19th and 20th centuries — Indian, English and American — agree that the reputation of Ahilyabai Holkar in Malwa and Maharashtra was then, and is, even now, that of a saint.

Historians have argued that if the army had not been withdrawn, the Dannevirke position would have been overrun, and even the commission appointed by the cabinet to investigate and document the reasons for abandoning Dannevirke acquitted de Meza completely in its report of March 10, 1864 and blamed the War Ministry for lack of preparation and negligence.