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

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 known since Louis Duchesne's critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis that the ' renumbering ' was actually due to a misunderstanding in the textual transmission of the official Papal lists.

Historians have puzzled over Edward's intentions for the succession since William of Malmesbury in the early 12th century.

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 have given a number of years for the establishment of the town since the 16th century.

Historians since then have argued over the facts of the matter and how to interpret them, with little agreement occurring throughout history.

Historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick argued that the military expedition was " itself a part of the reconciliation process ", since a show of overwhelming force would make further violence less likely.

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

Historians ' views of Stevens have swung sharply since his death as interpretations of Reconstruction have changed.

Historians usually translate the title Duke as " Knez ", but it's still a subject of discussion since " Knez " is commonly used to designate a nobleman, but not a monarch ie.

Historians have noted the marriage as evidence for Cearl's independence from the then-Northumbrian king Æthelfrith, since Edwin was Æthelfrith's rival and Cearl would not have married his daughter to an enemy of his overlord.

Historians of India, since the days of Eliphinstone, have wondered at the slow progress of Muslim invaders in India, as compared with their rapid advance in other parts of the world.

Historians have since indicated that there was a sixth gang member in an alley holding the horses, who escaped.

Historians and anthropologists believe they pushed out or destroyed the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a discrete Laurentian ( Iroquoian )- speaking group who had inhabited villages along the St. Lawrence River since at least the 14th century.

Historians count 13 ( Geneva ) or 14 ( St Gallen ) plague surges in Switzerland between 1500 and 1640, accounting for 31 plague years, and since 1580, smallpox outbreaks with an especially high mortality rate ( 80 – 90 %) amongst children under the age of five occurred every four to five years.

Historians have understood since the time of the Færeyinga Saga that the Viking Grímur Kamban was the first settler in the Faroes.

Historians have expressed doubt over Weizmann's involvement, since he was overseas at the time Kovner specified.

Historians disagree as to the success of the Stone Fleet, since other channels of the Charleston Harbor remained open and the ships broke up in a year or two.

Historians are divided as to whether the story of the council at Whitland can be regarded as having a basis in fact, since there is no contemporary record in the annals of such a council.

Historians have since come to regard the two letters as genuine.

Historians such as Ira Lapidus have concluded that since the 1970s, the Islamic world has witnessed a phenomenon called " Islamic revival " similar to a Christian revival — often associated with Islamic fundamentalism, Islamism and other forms of re-Islamization.

Historians have been trained in YSU since the day of its foundation.

Historians generally accept the comparison of particular institutions ( banking, women's rights, ethnic identities ) in different societies, but since the hostile reaction to Toynbee in the 1950s, generally do not pay much attention to sweeping comparative studies that cover wide swaths of the world over many centuries.

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 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.