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 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 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 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 are divided, however, on the implications of Bohr's political actions in Sweden, some arguing that he was among those rescued and therefore could have played no role in facilitating the mass rescue, whereas Richard Rhodes and others interpret Bohr ’ s actions in Sweden as being a necessary precursor without which that mass rescue could not have occurred.

Historians have therefore questioned to what extent the design can be seen as legitimately transitional.

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 ".

In the Historikerstreit ( Historians ' Dispute ) of 1986-88, Jäckel was a prominent critic of Ernst Nolte, whose theory of Nazi crimes as a reaction to Soviet crimes was denounced as ahistorical by Jäckel under the grounds that Hitler held the Soviet Union in contempt and therefore could not have possibly felt threatened by the Soviets as Nolte suggested.

Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals ; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole ; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones ; and secret planning, not public discussion.

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 have pointed to the manner of execution of Connolly and similar rebels, along with their actions, as being factors that caused public awareness of their desires and goals and gathered support for the movements that they had died fighting for.

Historians have used public records to identify Fard as Wallace Dodd Ford, a former restaurateur and Moorish Science Temple leader.

In the early 1990s there began to appear articles by Israeli academicians who referred to themselves as post-Zionists ; this was mostly in the aftermath of a lengthy public discussion on the issues surrounding the events of the War of Independence, attributed to the New Historians.

The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians created this category for the purpose of providing an equivalent to first-class cricket, to allow the generation of career records and statistics for comparable one-day matches.

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 have evaluated contemporary records to conclude that Forrest may have killed more than thirty enemy soldiers with saber, pistol and shotgun.

Historians have speculated, on the basis of these contemporary records, that the rumour that the princes had been murdered was deliberately created to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of Henry Tudor and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other likely suspects.

The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians created this category for the purpose of providing an equivalent to first-class cricket, to allow the generation of career records and statistics for comparable one-day matches.

Historians disagree as to the strength of the evidence against Blackburn, and many of the federal and Confederate records relating to the case have been lost.

Historians have argued that some of the modifications made years after the events have decreased the accuracy of the records and were made simply to enhance personal reputations ( or to denigrate the reputations of rivals ).