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 largely considered his rule to be a disaster, calling it The Anarchy.

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 have erroneously reported that he mistreated his first wife, Anneke Hermansz ( Annetje Harmensdochter Abeel ), based on records that a Frans Hals was charged with spousal abuse in Haarlem in 1616.

Historians Witner and Ratch, and many others, reported it was used as a fortification to threaten the French right flank, despite being beyond effective reach of guns of the period.

His body was reported washed ashore on June 13, 1829. Shepherd, Jack, Cannibals of the Heart: A Personal Biography of Louisa Catherine and John Quincy Adams, New York, McGraw-Hill 1980 Historians believe that he committed suicide

Historians debate if Lincoln gave up on African American colonization at the end of 1863 or if he actually planned to continue this policy up until 1865.

Historians from Bosworth Smith onwards have been skeptical of this, observing that his troops gave as good an account of themselves in battle after that winter as before.

Historians gave various dates, both for the foundation of Carthage and the foundation of Rome.

Historians have mistrusted the title " rex Romanorum " that Gregory of Tours gave him, at least as early as Godefroid Kurth, who dismissed it as a gross error in 1893.

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.

Early in 1936, Nicolae Iorga was again lecturing at the University of Paris, and gave an additional conference at the Société des études historiques, before hosting the Bucharest session of the International Committee of Historians.

In 2006, the Organization of American Historians gave Ward their Friend of History Award for his outstanding contributions to American history: Over the last twenty years Geoffrey Ward's writings on American History have had a greater influence and reached a wider audience than those of any other American writer and historian.

Historians note that Washington, " advised, networked, cut deals, made threats, pressured, punished enemies, rewarded friends, greased palms, manipulated the media, signed autographs, read minds with the skill of a master psychologist, strategized, raised money, always knew where the camera was pointing, traveled with an entourage, waved the flag with patriotic speeches, and claimed to have no interest in partisan politics.

Historians estimate his estate was worth about $ 1 million in 1799 dollars, equivalent to about $ 18 million in 2009 purchasing power.

Historians differ about the rule of several kings and their respective times.

Historians Passelecq and Suchecky have argued that Pacelli learned about its existence only after the death of Pius XI and did not promulgate it as Pope.

Historians are divided about what followed: some argue that the takeover of southern Great Britain by the Anglo-Saxons was peaceful.

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 have no literature, no texts of religion or philosophy ; therefore much of what is known about this civilization is derived from grave goods and tomb findings.

Historians know very little about Darius II's reign.

Historians disagree on the precise way it was recovered in Northern Italy about 1070: perhaps it was waiting unneeded and unnoticed in a library until the legal studies that were undertaken on behalf of papal authority that was central to the Gregorian Reform of Pope Gregory VII led to its accidental rediscovery.

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 estimate about 2, 000 Cheyenne died, one-half to two-thirds of their population.

Historians have debated whether the Pequot migrated about 1500 from the upper Hudson River Valley toward what is now central and eastern Connecticut.

Historians such as Reginald Horsman, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, and Blue Jacket biographer John Sugden have argued that the known historical facts about Blue Jacket and Van Swearingen make it unlikely that they were the same person.

Historians debate the accuracy of the account about the latter discovery, but in popular lore it led to the place being called Corn Hill.

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

Historians seem to be unsure about Alexander ’ s behavior when it came to his relations with Mongols.

Historians disagree about Pontiac's importance in the war that bears his name.

Historians argue about whether this prolonged the Breaking or diluted it ( not coincidentally, those who hold the former view tend to be of the Red Ajah ).

Historians disagree about when the form was created.

Historians have estimated about 400, 000 emigrants followed the trails along the Platte.

Historians like Dr. Ruth Barrington, who had written extensively about Irish health policy and had access to the files from the 1940s and 1950s, questioned the book's reliability.

Historians believe that the first settlers came to this place about 2000 years ago.

Historians Bruce Catton and Glenn Tucker make firm assertions that a sharpshooter was responsible ; Stephen Sears credits volley fire from the 7th Tennessee against the 2nd Wisconsin ; Edwin Coddington cites the sister's letter and finds the sharpshooter theory to be partly credible, but leans towards Sears ' conclusion ; Harry W. Pfanz agrees that the location was behind the 2nd Wisconsin, but make no judgment about the source of the fire.

Historians place the beginning of capitalism some time between about 1450 ( Sombart ) and some time in the 17th century ( Hobsbawm ).