According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

It is still not clear how far Orkney ’ s advance was planned only as a feint ; according to historian David Chandler it is probably more accurate to surmise that Marlborough launched Orkney in a serious probe with a view to sounding out the possibilities of the sector.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

David Hume ( 25 August 1776 ) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

In the judgment of the historian David Potter, the edict was " an act of economic lunacy ".

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

In his history of the game, historian David Nelson concluded that the first forward passes were thrown on Christmas Day 1905 in a match between two small colleges in Kansas: " Although Cochems was the premier passing coach during the first year of the rule, the first forward passes were thrown at the end of the 1905 season in a game between Fairmount and Washburn colleges in Kansas.

* 1958 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and writer ( d. 2010 )

This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark with which to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.

* 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian

* 1933 – David McCullough, American historian and author

In his 2004 study of the Lavender Scare, the historian David K. Johnson attacked the speculations about Hoover's homosexuality as relying on " the kind of tactics Hoover and the security program he oversaw perfected – guilt by association, rumor, and unverified gossip ”.

In an interview conducted by Jan & Dean fan and historian David Beard for the Collectors ' Choice release, Jan & Dean The Complete Liberty Singles, Dean Torrence stated that he felt the duo should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: " We have the scoreboard if you just want to compare number of hits and musical projects done.

John stopped short of trying to actively enforce this charter on the native Irish kingdoms, but historian David Carpenter suspects that he might have done so, had the baronial conflict in England not intervened.

According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.

However, Oxford Brookes University historian David Nash says the removal of the scene represented " a form of self-censorship " and the Otto sequence " which involved a character representative of extreme forms of Zionism " was cut " in the interests of smoothing the way for the film's distribution in America.

Cryptography historian David Kahn titles him the " Father of Western Cryptography ", pointing to three significant advances in the field which can be attributed to Alberti: " the earliest Western exposition of cryptanalysis, the invention of polyalphabetic substitution, and the invention of enciphered code " ().

Cricket historian David Frith believed it is possible that the abrasive Australian captain Warwick Armstrong could have addressed sarcastic comments to Jardine but Wisden believed his slow approach cost him his century.

He scored 187 not out in four hours, an innings described by leading historian David Frith as " among the most stirring innings Test cricket has ever produced ".

* David Herbert Donald, noted historian

This is partly thanks to the acquisition of Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, a well known cultural historian and media scholar, as well as the Inaugural Verklin Media Policy and Ethics Conference, endowed by the CEO of Canoe Ventures and UVA alumnus David Verklin.

* 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1776 )

* 1938 – David Irving, British historian

* 9-Esmond Wright, 87, British historian.

Africanist historian Donald R. Wright suggests that Senegambian place-names indicate " that the earliest inhabitants might be identified most closely with one of several related groups — Bainunk, Kasanga, Beafada ... To these were added Serer, who moved southward during the first millennium A. D. from the Senegal River valley, and Mande-speaking peoples, who arrived later still from the east.

In addition, Underground Railroad historian Giles Wright has published a pamphlet debunking the quilt code.

Film historian Virginia Wright Wexman describes Antonioni's perspective on the world as that of a " postreligious Marxist and existentialist intellectual.

Exploring the reasons Wright appeared to have little to say about the civil rights movement unfolding in the United States in the 1950s, historian Carol Polsgrove has gathered evidence of what his fellow writer Chester Himes called the " extraordinary pressure " Wright was under not to write about the American scene.

Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd mentoring student activists, among them Alice Walker, who would later write The Color Purple ; and Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children ’ s Defense Fund.

Economic historian Robert E. Wright argues that construction delays are caused by bid gaming, change order artistry, asymmetric information, and post contractual market power.

* 1933 – Gordon Wright, BA, historian.

During the Truman and Eisenhower years, a number of left wing intellectuals found a space for their work in MR, including a number that would gain in stature in the ensuing liberalized decade, such as pacifist activist Staughton Lynd ( 1952 ), historian William Appleman Williams ( 1952 ), and sociologist C. Wright Mills ( 1958 ).

Espionage historian Chapman Pincher obtained a copy of the letter, and used former MI5 officers Peter Wright and Arthur Martin as his main additional secret sources, to write the sensational book Their Trade is Treachery in 1981.

* Mary Clabaugh Wright ( 1917 – 1970 )— educator and historian, first woman to become a full professor at Yale.

" This position is supported by Library of Congress historian Fred Howard, co-editor of the Wright brothers ' papers, and by aviation writers Martin Caidin and Harry B. Combs.

Establishment names include aviation historians William F. Trimble, Fred Howard ( a Wright brothers biographer ), British historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith, as well as Tom Crouch and Walter Boyne at the Smithsonian Institution.

In the 1950s British aviation historian and author Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith studied The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright at the Library of Congress, and Randolph's 1937 book, and concluded that reports of Whitehead making a successful flight in advance of the Wright brothers were fabrications.

Robert K. Wright, Jr. ( born 1946 ) is an American military historian and author.

* James Wright ( historian ) ( born 1939 ), President of Dartmouth College, historian

Robert Wright ( 1906 – 1992 ) was a historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding, the RAF's commanding officer in the Battle of Britain.

Robert Wright, Latter Day Saint historian

* Walter Wright, hereditary chief of the Gits ' ilaasü ( Kitselas ) and oral historian

British historian Esmond Wright, of the Institute of US Studies, noted ' a vast amount of popular identification with the American story '.

* Robert Wright ( historian ) ( 1906 – 1992 ), Royal Air Force historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding