The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler, such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regard to Poland.

* 1947 – Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian ( b. 1890 )

* 1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, American historian

* Aurelius Victor, Roman politician and historian

* Aurelius Victor, Roman historian and politician

* Aurelius Victor, Roman historian and politician

Later Christian chroniclers and pre-20th century historians praised Charles Martel as the champion of Christianity, characterizing the battle as the decisive turning point in the struggle against Islam, a struggle which preserved Christianity as the religion of Europe ; according to modern military historian Victor Davis Hanson, " most of the 18th and 19th century historians, like Gibbon, saw Poitiers ( Tours ), as a landmark battle that marked the high tide of the Muslim advance into Europe.

" Similarly, historian Victor Davis Hanson believes both armies were roughly the same size, about 30, 000 men.

The military historian Victor Davis Hanson shares his view about the battle's macrohistorical placement:

* Aurelius Victor, historian and politician ( approximate date )

Critics argue Napoleon's true legacy must reflect the loss of status for France and needless deaths brought by his rule: historian Victor Davis Hanson writes, " After all, the military record is unquestioned — 17 years of wars, perhaps six million Europeans dead, France bankrupt, her overseas colonies lost.

The fourth-century historian Aurelius Victor described Maximian as " a colleague trustworthy in friendship, if somewhat boorish, and of great military talents ".

As the historian Aurelius Victor relates:

The battle of Rorke's Drift was given a chapter in military historian Victor Davis Hanson's book Carnage and Culture as one of several landmark battles demonstrating the superior effectiveness of Western military practices.

NRC chairman Joseph Hendrie and commissioner Victor Gilinsky initially viewed the accident, in the words of NRC historian Samuel Walker, as a " cause for concern but not alarm ".

According to the historian Victor Tcherikover, the main motive for the Tobiads ' Hellenism was economic and political.

* Victor Langlois ( 1829 ), historian

* January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, historian

François Victor Alphonse Aulard ( 19 July 1849 – 23 October 1928 ) was the first professional French historian of the French Revolution and of Napoleon.

About 360 the historian Aurelius Victor is the sole writer to note the attacks of bagaudae in the peripheries of the larger towns and walled cities.

* Victor Davis Hanson, classicist and war historian

In his article “ The Albanian Myth ” Russian historian and anthropologist Victor Schnirelmann demonstrated that Azerbaijani academics have been “ renaming prominent medieval Armenian political leaders, historians and writers, who lived in Karabakh and Armenia into “ Albanians .” Victor Schnirelmann argues that these efforts were first launched in the 1950s and were directed towards “ ripping the population of early medieval Karabakh off from their Armenian heritage ” and “ cleansing Azerbaijan of Armenian history .” In the 1970s, Azerbaijan made a transition from ignoring, discounting or concealing Armenian historical heritage in Soviet Azerbaijan to misattributing and mischaracterizing it as examples of Azerbaijani culture by arbitrarily declaring “ Caucasian Albanians ” as ancestors of modern Azerbaijanis.

Called by historian Victor Brooks " one of the most stupendous feats of logistics " of the entire war, Knox's effort is commemorated by a series of plaques marking the Henry Knox Trail in New York and Massachusetts.

The historian William J. Cooper has stated that Davis believed in southern social order that included " a democratic white polity based firmly on dominance of a controlled and excluded black caste.

Paul Davis, another modern historian who addresses both sides in the debate over whether or not this Battle truly determined the direction of history, as Watson claims, or merely was a relatively minor raid, as Cardini writes, says " whether Charles Martel saved Europe for Christianity is a matter of some debate.

More recently, the historian J. C. Davis has suggested that the Ranters did not exist at all.

The historian Robert Finlay has criticized Davis ' conclusions, arguing that Bertrande was duped ( as most of her contemporaries believed, including the trial judges ) after her husband's long absence.

* Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, military historian, columnist

However, theatre historian Lee Davis maintains that Freedley wanted the script changing because it was " a hopeless mess.

* William Stearns Davis ( 1877 – 1930 ), American educator, historian, and writer

* William T. Davis ( 1862 – 1945 ), naturalist, entomologist and historian

* William C. Davis ( historian ) ( b. 1946 ), American Civil War authority at Virginia Tech

When Davis, along with local historian Charles Leng, coauthored a history of Staten Island in 1896, they wrote that:

* David Brion Davis ( born 1927 ), historian of slavery and abolitionism

Other alumni include composer Brian Irvine, musician David Lyttle, comedian Omid Djalili, former hostage and writer Brian Keenan, historian Simon Kitson, biomedical scientist and former vice chancellor P G ( Gerry ) McKenna, filmmaker Brian Philip Davis, visual artist Willie Doherty, photographer Mary Fitzpatrick, film producer Michael Riley, rugby player Brian Robinson, radio and television personality Gerry Anderson and distinguished academic of nursing Alison Kitson.

James M. McPherson ( born October 11, 1936 ) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis ' 86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University.

" Reagan in effect had stolen the U. S. Post Office ," notable historian William C. Davis wrote.

* William Stearns Davis 1896, historian and educator

* John Davis ( pianist ) ( born 1957 ), American classical pianist, concert performer, recording artist, and historian

Decades later, Ira Gershwin told American songwriting historian Sheila Davis about a contribution Lawrence made to honing the lyrics of the song " My Ship " in Lady in the Dark.

This ultimately resulted in Hanson's statue being one of two representing Maryland in Statuary Hall in the U. S. Capitol, even though, according to historian Gregory Stiverson, Hanson was not one of Maryland's foremost leaders of the Revolutionary era.

According to the historian of science Norwood Russell Hanson: There is no bilaterally-symmetrical, nor excentrically-periodic curve used in any branch of astrophysics or observational astronomy which could not be smoothly plotted as the resultant motion of a point turning within a constellation of epicycles, finite in number, revolving around a fixed deferent. Any path — periodic or not, closed or open — can be represented with an infinite number of epicycles.

* John Wesley Hanson ( 1823 – 1901 ), American Universalist minister and historian

Other major recent speakers include California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, former secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, James Baker, and Madeleine Albright ; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; authors Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Greg Mortenson ; microcredit entrepreneur and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus ; historian Victor Davis Hanson ; airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger ; CIA Director Leon Panetta ; former U. S. Comptroller General and Peter Peterson Foundation President David Walker, and business leaders Richard Kovacevich and David O ' Reilly.

" The historian Victor Davis Hanson argues that the novel is based on Wallace's own life, particularly his experiences as a division commander during the American Civil War under General Grant.

* Victor Davis Hanson, a military historian

The Universalist Church of America historian J. W. Hanson ( 1899 ) argued that Pantaenus " must, beyond question " have taught Universalism to Clement of Alexandria and Origen.

In The End of Celluloid ( 2004 ), historian of digital art Matt Hanson argues that No Maps was a film that could not have been made before the advent of digital technology.