Historians have traditionally regarded the great debates of the Seventeen Nineties as polarizing the issues of centralized vs. limited government, with Hamilton and the nationalists supporting the former and Jefferson and Madison upholding the latter position.

Historians have had two reasons for persisting so long in their investigations.

Historians have come to recognize two cardinal facts concerning nationalism and international influence.

Historians have therefore turned to public records for what details we know.

Historians have seen Ealdred as an " old-fashioned prince-bishop ".

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

Historians believe that the author of Acts did not have access to a collection of Paul's letters.

Historians have proposed several names for the Age before Superman, most commonly dubbing it the Platinum Age.

Historians have different opinions as to when wheat began to replace the use of millet.

Historians have debated whether Hume posited a universal unchanging human nature, or allowed for evolution and development.

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.

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 have speculated that Thomas Seymour had put her off sexual relationships, or that she knew herself to be infertile.

Historians estimate the Alþing to have been established from 800 to 900.

Historians debate the exact path he returned back by, but due to evidence attributed to the captain of his ship, he may have travelled through Tanegeshima and Minato, and avoided Kagoshima due to the hostility of the Daimyo.

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

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 demonstrated that this text represents Contarini's idealization of Venetian reality.

Historians have used it as a primary source because of its wealth of detail on ordinary life in the 17th century, and the many towns and villages which Fox visited.

Historians have paid special attention to the efforts by Nazi Germany to reverse the gains women made before 1933, especially in the relatively liberal Weimar Republic.

Historians committed to a social science approach, however, have criticized the narrowness of narrative and its preference for anecdote over analysis, and its use of clever examples rather than statistically verified empirical regularities.

Historians have noted that the importance of the Drake well was not in being the first well to produce oil, but in attracting the first great wave of investment in oil drilling, refining, and marketing:

Historians have emphasised that the flexibility and dynamism of the Scottish banking system contributed significantly to the rapid development of the economy in the 19th century.

Historians like Serge Lancell have questioned the reliability of the figures for the number of troops he had when he left Hispania.

Historians estimate that fully two per cent of the Chinese community was deported between 1923 and 1932, largely under the provisions of the Opium and Narcotics Drugs Act ( ONDA ).

Historians largely agree that this was a consequence of the failure at Villers-Bocage and had been planned since the battle.

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

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 have suggested the story of the plot may have been largely manufactured by Charles or his supporters to allow the removal of most of his strongest political opponents.

Historians have largely discounted the work, while acknowledging that the Chronicle contains material on the early history of the South Slavs.

Historians now believe that the U. S. compensation claim was greatly exaggerated and largely fabricated ( see Robson, A. E, Prelude to Empire, 2004, p. 84 ( citing Calvert 1856 and Freemantle 1856 )).

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 have noted that naturalists had long been aware that the individuals of a species differed from one another, but had generally considered such variations to be limited and unimportant deviations from the archetype of each species, that archetype being a fixed ideal in the mind of God.

Historians have traditionally considered the passage of the Petition of Right an important moment in the Stuart period.

Today, the name " Chinese whispers " is said by some to be considered offensive or racist, Historians trace Westerners ' use of the word Chinese to denote " confusion " and " incomprehensibility " to the earliest contacts between Europeans and Chinese people in the 1600s, and attribute it to Europeans ' inability to understand and appreciate China's radically different culture and worldview.

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 Ovid Densusianu and Konstantin Jirecek considered that Megleno-Romanians descended from a mixture of Romanians with Pecenegs, settled in Moglen by the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos in 1091.

Historians who have studied these documents have suggested that if such a speech took place, which is usually considered plausible but not proven ( see below ), then this view may have formed the basis for the Nazi-Soviet pact of non-aggression signed in 1939, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was also signed days later around 23 – 24 August 1939.

Historians remain divided on whether the rebellion can properly be considered a war of Indian independence or not, although it is popularly considered to be one in India.

Shlaim is considered one of Israel's New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel.

Historians have considered how the ideas of John Locke and republicanism merged to form republicanism in the United States.

Historians credit them with a major role in the development of Greek mathematics ( particularly number theory and geometry ) into a coherent logical system based on clear definitions and proven theorems that was considered to be a subject worthy of study in its own right, without regard to the practical applications that had been the primary concern of the Egyptians and Babylonians.

Historians differ as to whether the Elamites could be considered " Iranian.

Historians Fiala and Hanuš conclude that these ordained women ( there were about five, Javorová being the only publicly known ) found very few specific sacerdotal tasks in the Davídek's group, and conclude from this that their ordinations can therefore be considered as only a " symbolical act and a precedent ".

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 generally considered to be part of the Peterhouse school are Michael Bentley, Alistair B. Cooke, Maurice Cowling, Edward Norman and John Vincent.

Historians of Islam have sometimes considered the Barmakids to have been Zoroastrian priests before converting to Islam, an erroneous view based on the fact that Balkh was known as an important centre of Zoroastrianism, or from a simple failure of early