" Historians typically rank Roosevelt among the top five presidents.

Historians have become very reluctant to classify other societies into European models and today it is rare for Indian history to be described as feudal by academics ; it still done in popular usage, however, but only for pejorative reasons to express disfavour, typically by critics.

Historians often refer to the period from Qin Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty as Imperial China.

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 generally refer to the continuing Roman Empire in the east as the Byzantine Empire after Byzantium, the original name of the town that Constantine I would elevate to the Imperial capital as New Rome in 330 AD.

Historians refer to the material culture of northern Europe during the mass-migrations of the 5th to the 7th centuries as the Germanic Iron Age.

Historians generally refer to this period as Radical Reconstruction.

Historians refer to a Gaelic revival or resurgence as ocurring between 1350 and 1500, by which time the area ruled for the Crown — " the Pale " — had shrunk to a small area around Dublin.

Historians used to believe that Thespis of ancient Athens ( 6th Century BCE ) was the first person to speak lines as an individual actor on stage ( hence the term " thespian " to refer to an individual actor ).

Historians often refer to the ' Age of Discovery ' as the pioneer Portuguese and Spanish long-distance maritime travels in search of alternative trade routes to " the East Indies ", moved by the trade of gold, silver and spices.

Historians of the Middle Ages often use " Latin Europe " to refer to the cultural-geographic area of Europe where Latin was used as a working language of the Church, State and / or Academy.

Historians commonly refer to the collection as the Official Records.

Historians use the term Third Republic of Venezuela to refer to the period from about 1817 to 1819, when a rump government, organized by Bolívar began functioning in the Venezuelan Llanos.

Historians acknowledge his protection of popular democracy and individual liberty for United States citizens, and criticize him for his support for slavery and for his role in Indian removal.

Historians debate whether or not Washington preferred a Fabian strategy to harass the British with quick, sharp attacks followed by a retreat so the larger British army could not catch him, or whether he preferred to fight major battles.

Historians praised him as a statesman of moderation and balance who kept the peace in Europe and was primarily responsible for the unification of modern Germany.

Historians regard him as the darkest figure within the Nazi elite ; Adolf Hitler christened him " the man with the iron heart ".

Historians regard Heydrich as the most fearsome member of the Nazi elite ; Hitler called him " the man with the iron heart ".

In 1 Sam 12: 6-17, the Deuteronomic Historians composed a speech of Samuel that puts him as the judge sent by God to save Israel.

In 1 Samuel 9: 6-20, Samuel is seen as a local “ seer .” The Deuteronomistic Historians preserved this view of Samuel while contributing him as “ the first of prophets to articulate the failure of Israel to live up to its covenant with God .” For the Deuteronomistic Historians, Samuel was extension of Moses and continuing Moses ’ function as a prophet, judge, and a priest which made historical Samuel uncertain.

Historians call him Pitt, Chatham, or William Pitt, the Elder to distinguish him from his son, William Pitt the Younger.

Historians of the 19th century invented the term Neoplatonism and applied it to him and his philosophy which was influential in Late Antiquity.

Historians have not determined the size of the force with any certainty, but Edward probably brought with him around 225 knights and all together less than 1000 men.

Historians Arnold W. Gomme and Raphael Sealey believe, and Thucydides reports, that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negotiated that treaty through Nicias and Laches, overlooking him on account of his youth.

Historians have looked upon him as one of the ablest of Napoleon's relatives.

Historians have searched for superlatives to describe him, as in the case of Professor Donald Detwiler, who wrote:

Historians and genealogists have retrospectively dubbed him " Thomas II of Savoy " in order to distinguish him from the other Thomases of the House of Savoy.

Historians regard him as a fearless monarch and give him the epithet, Peroz the Victorious.

Historians used to say that He Yingqin strongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contacted Wang Jingwei asking him back to China to take charge of Kuomintang.

Historians differ over the motive for his conversion to Islam, some suggest it was a reaction to a social slight inflicted upon him, because he was a Jew, while others suggest he was forcibly converted at the edge of a sword ( which prompted Maimonides to comment upon Anusim.

Historians who agree that Logan the orator was not named " Tah-gah-jute " sometimes identify him as Tachnechdorus, although Jennings identifies Tachnechdorus as Logan the orator's older brother.

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.

Historians have scant knowledge of the pre-Spanish history of the indigenous Yakans simply because they have had little contact with other ethnic groups.

Historians now point out that with the Cold War tensions of the late 1940s and early 1950s in particular, leading the Liberal Party then would have been a challenge for anybody, and that in simply keeping the party together and in existence at all, Davies made a significant contribution.

Historians debate whether or not Otto von Bismarck, the Minister President of Prussia, had a master plan to expand the North German Confederation of 1866 to include the remaining independent German states into a single entity, or whether he simply sought to expand the power of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Historians trace the origins of this Sussex landed family to 1166, when Bertha de Lancinges confirmed a charter for lands amounting to a quarter of a knight's fee less one virgate at Earnley, Sussex granted by her father William de Lancinges and his wife Maud to his uncle, Lucas de Ernle, whose name simply means Luke of Earnley.

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 ).

Historians often distinguish between two overlapping forms of colonialism:

Historians question whether the Roman government distinguished between Christians and Jews prior to Nerva's modification of the Fiscus Judaicus in 96 ( Jews paid the tax, Christians did not ).

Historians and theologians regularly review the changing relationship between some Christian groups and the Jewish people ; the article on Christian-Jewish reconciliation studies one recent issue.

Historians say the Virginia courts executed between 26 and 35 slaves.

Historians believe that many of the indigenous peoples of Liberia migrated there from the north and east between the 12th and 16th centuries AD.

Historians often argue this intellectual transformation was a bridge between the Middle Ages and the Modern era.

Historians have heralded the Treaty of Washington for settling the Alabama Claims dispute between Britain and the United States by International Arbitration.

Historians, makers, and players generally distinguish between Renaissance and Baroque viols.

Historians draw a distinction between prehistory and history, with history defined by the advent of writing.

Historians attribute Kamasutra to be composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE.

Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of increased religious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century.

Historians have widely debated the nature of the relationship between these African kingdoms and the European traders.

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 have speculated whether the division between Edward and Thomas began at that time, as Thomas unsurprisingly began to resent his brother and the relationship between them began to dissolve.

Historians speculate that Courbet's erotic painting of her as L ' Origine du monde led to the breakup of the friendship between Whistler and Courbet.

Historians ( such as William St. Clair-Baddeley in 1929 ) have concluded that the Saxons may have launched a surprise attack and seized the site at Hinton Hill because it commanded the Avon Valley and disrupted communications north and south between Bath and her neighbouring Romano-British towns of Gloucester and Cirencester.

Historians have found the tribes on the west of Ireland hardest to identify with known peoples, however Camden and O ' Conor speculated a possible connection between the Gangani and the Concani, one of the eleven tribes in the confederacy of the Cantabri in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula.

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 recognize the Old Salt Route as part of a much longer path, which functioned as an important connection between the northern and southern reaches of the country.

Historians believe the gun fight was racial in nature between the local Hispanic majority and African American mine workers versus the European American county officials.

Historians of both schools focused on the purge of political, intellectual, economic or military elites, and the struggle between the center and regional party cliques.

" Historians are not yet agreed on the exact role of the societies " in the Whiskey Rebellion, wrote historian Mark Spencer in 2003, " but there was a degree of overlap between society membership and the Whiskey Rebels ".

Historians ' estimation of Philip gradually improved in the 20th century, with comparisons between Philip and his father being increasingly positive — some noting that he possessed much more energy, both mental and physical, than his diffident father.