The cause of the conflict is uncertain, as the sources are divided ; the Lombard Paul the Deacon accuses the Gepids, while the Byzantine historian Menander Protector places the blame on Alboin, an interpretation favoured by historian Walter Pohl.

Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as " the chief judicial officer " of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.

The historian Walter Goffart says of Bede that he " holds a privileged and unrivalled place among first historians of Christian Europe ".

The historian Walter Goffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works, using them as the framework around which the three main sections of the work were structured.

In his critique of colonialism in Africa, the Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney states:

Looking at the half century after the war historian Walter Laquer concluded:

According to the Marxist historian, Walter Rodney, imperialism meant capitalist expansion.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney describes mercantilism as the period of the world-wide development of European commerce, which began in the fifteenth century with the voyages of Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, Asia and the New World.

Described by historian Walter Goffart as " the bible of warfare throughout the Middle Ages ", De re militari was widely distributed through the Latin West.

* November 28 – Walter Havighurst, American critic, novelist, literary and social historian of the Midwest, professor of English at Miami University, ( died 1994 )

* March 23 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure

* Walter Map, Welsh historian ( d. 1209 )

In the 14th century, the English cleric and historian Walter Hemingford described the Scottish coronation stone as residing in the monastery of Scone, a few miles north of Perth:

While the art of the older masters was based in the physical world of everyday experience, Bosch confronts his viewer with, in the words of the art historian Walter Gibson, " a world of dreams nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and change before our eyes.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney ( 1972 ) has argued that it was an unequal relationship, with Africans being forced into a " colonial " trade with the more economically developed Europeans, exchanging raw materials and human resources ( i. e. slaves ) for manufactured goods.

* Dr. Walter Rodney, world-renowned historian of Africa, was born in Georgetown, Guyana.

Art historian Walter J. Friedlander, in The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine ( 1992 ) collected hundreds of examples of the caduceus and the rod of Asclepius and found that professional associations were just somewhat more likely to use the staff of Asclepius, while commercial organizations in the medical field were more likely to use the caduceus.

Graham also refers to what he describes as " the unchallenged work of South Carolina's premier historian Dr. Walter Edgar, who pointed out in his 1998 South Carolina: A History that Marion's partisans were " a ragged band of both black and white volunteers ".

For example, Kirkus Reviews quoted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar on the subject:

James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe, a new video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler ( Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity ) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker, and a new video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor.

That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure ( see below ) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding " An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been superimposed on an autochthonous, non-Greek name.

The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny were closely related ideas: historian Walter McDougall calls Manifest Destiny a corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, because while the Monroe Doctrine did not specify expansion, expansion was necessary in order to enforce the Doctrine.

According to rock historian Walter Rasmussen, Pete Townshend once said that The Who's 1969 album Tommy was inspired by the rock opera " Epic " by People!

Vermont historian Samuel Williams called it " an act which for its savage barbarity is probably without parallel in the legislation of any civilized country ".

" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".

* 1981 – Eric Williams, Caribbean historian, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago ( b. 1911 )

Espínola was " perhaps the most hated Paraguayan of his era ", in the words of historian John Hoyt Williams.

The historian Basil Williams has claimed that this is the first time in British history when a " man was called to supreme power by the voice of the people " rather than by the king's appointment or as the choice of Parliament.

Maximian's swift appointment by Diocletian as Caesar is taken by the writer Stephen Williams and historian Timothy Barnes to mean that the two men were longterm allies, that their respective roles were pre-agreed and that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against Carinus ( r. 283 – 285 ) but there is no direct evidence for this.

Country music historian Bob Millard wrote that JMI had pioneered the country music video concept by " producing a 3-minute film " to go along with Williams ' song.

Oilman, geologist, and historian Clayton Wheat Williams, Sr., operated a ranch near Alpine in Brewster County though his residence was in Fort Stockton.

Unlike LSU historian T. Harry Williams, who claimed Long's death was preventable, Hull said that Long could not have survived the shooting.

* Clayton W. Williams, Sr., rancher, oilman, and historian

* William Appleman Williams ( 1921 – 1990 ), American historian

The early Spanish explorers, according to the historian Walter Williams, encountered their ancestors.

* George Washington Williams, an African American politician and historian, the first ever to report the atrocities in the Congo.

* January 5-Basil Williams, historian

* February 1-Jane Williams ( Ysgafell ), poet, folklorist and historian ( died 1885 )

According to historian Mary Wilhelmine Williams: " The immediate reasons for the different enactments varied.

* T. Harry Williams, historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

* Edith Derby Williams, historian, granddaughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt, lived on Vashon Island from 1949 until her death in 2008.

In addition, it supports research via an extensive library ; runs the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, a summer graduate-level academic program, established in 1955 by maritime historian Professor Robert G. Albion of Harvard University ; and, in conjunction with Williams College, hosts Williams-Mystic, an undergraduate program in maritime studies.

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 ).

Other titles published by the press in its formative years include The Empire of Oil by Harvey O ' Connor ( 1955 ), The Political Economy of Growth by Paul Baran ( 1957 ), The United States, Cuba, and Castro by historian William Appleman Williams ( 1963 ), and Fanshen by William Hinton ( 1966 ).

Hart married Jenifer Williams, a senior civil servant in the Home Office and, later, Oxford historian at St Anne's College ( specializing in the history of the police ).

It was later revealed by historian and Long biographer T. Harry Williams that the senator had never, in fact, intended to run for the presidency in 1936.

In a May 2010 episode of the Channel 4 series Time Team, archaeologists Matt Williams and Phil Harding engage in some mock flyting in Old English written by Saxon historian Sam Newton to demonstrate the practice.