I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Both the American and the Annales historians picked up important family reconstitution techniques from French demographer Louis Henry.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

This belief is called by historians American exceptionalism.

It is considered important by film historians as one of the first feature length American films ( most previous films had been less than one hour long ), and it changed the industry's standard in a way still influential today .< ref >

He opened the gates for a generation of labor historians, such as David Montgomery and Herbert Gutman, who made similar studies of the American working classes.

His rags-to-riches story, having worked his way through college, has led film historians like Ian Freer to consider Capra the " American dream personified.

According to some historians, the film was made to convey a " deliberate reaffirmation of American values ", although ones which seemed uncertain with respect to the future.

Historian Ron Chernow is of the opinion that his frustrations in dealing with government officials during this conflict led him to advocate the advantages of a strong national government and a vigorous executive agency that could get results ; other historians tend to ascribe Washington's position on government to his later American Revolutionary War service.

From 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history rose from 31 % to 41 %, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40 % to 30 %.

However, in 2003, a joint group of Russian and American historians announced their view that Stalin had ingested flavorless warfarin, a powerful rat poison that inhibits coagulation of the blood and which predisposes the victim to hemorrhagic stroke ( cerebral hemorrhage ).

Many historians regard him as one of the greatest Secretaries of State in American history.

He is probably best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in accordance with his ardently nationalist views, and is widely considered by historians to have been one of the greatest diplomats in American history.

It is considered by some historians to be the " First Shots of the American Civil War ".

Category: American historians

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

He has been dubbed the Grandfather of the American Oil Industry by historians.

Carson's contributions to western history have been reexamined by historians, journalists and Native American activists since the 1960s.

Some historians argue that this new approach is an expression of the American spirit and the boundless open space of the frontier, which German culture so admired.

It is clear from the writings of both Ludlow, Vane, and historians of the early American period such as Upham, that this is what they were striving for and why they were excepted from the acts of indemnity.

Though today many historians feel the possibility of France and Italy falling to the communists was remote, it was regarded as a very real possibility by American policy makers at the time.

Category: American historians

Encyclopædia Britannica identifies the movement's genesis with the late-18th century American Revolution and French Revolution ; other historians point specifically to the ultra-nationalist party in France during the French Revolution.

In 1967, American oral historians founded the Oral History Association, and British oral historians founded the Oral History Society in 1969.

* 1983 – Troy Williamson, American football player

American Founding Fathers, or Framers of the Constitution, who were especially noted for being influenced by such philosophy include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, Gouverneur Morris, and Hugh Williamson.

In his Jack and the Beanstalk ( 1902 ) and Life of an American Fireman he followed earlier films by France's Georges Méliès and members of England's Brighton School, such as James Williamson.

* 1948 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American singer and harmonica player ( b. 1914 )

* 1971 – Kenya D. Williamson, American actress, author, and screenwriter

* 1952 – Marianne Williamson, American activist and author

* 1996 – Billy Williamson, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( b. 1925 )

* 1953 – Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator

* 1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player ( d. 1894 )

* 1949 – James Williamson, American guitarist

* 1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist

* April 29 – Jack Williamson, American science fiction author ( d. 2006 )

* October 24 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player ( d. 1894 )

* September 27 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist

* March 3 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player ( b. 1857 )

* May 22 – Hugh Williamson, American Founding Father ( b. 1735 )

The American historians Williamson Murray and Alan Millet called Raeder the " ultimate battleship admiral ".

In July 2007, the W. W. Norton Company published The Lincoln Highway, Coast-to-Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate: The Great American Road Trip by Michael Wallis, best-selling author of Route 66, and voice in the movie Cars, and Michael Williamson, twice a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer with The Washington Post.

The largest ancestry groups in Williamson County are English American ( 19. 5 %), German American ( 16. 6 %), Irish American ( 15. 2 %), African American ( 5 %), Scottish American ( 4 %) and Scots-Irish American ( 4 %).