His views on the subject have been shaped by his training as a historian.
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He remained a teacher, but saw himself as a historian of social and political ideas.
Remarkably, Rabbi Ellenson has devoted his career as a historian to the study of Orthodox responses to modernity.
For, as this week's verdict made clear, Mr Irving's activities as a historian are almost impossible to separate from his political views.
As a historian, I know well the musty scent of book mold wafting up like some pheromone of erudition from a long unopened tome.
Such a book needs both technical market knowledge and historical anecdote, and Mr Chancellor, a former investment banker who trained as a historian, carries the combination off well.
Instead, Cooder functions as a renegade historian on a no-particular-hurry ambling tour through rural America.
As a trained historian, and meticulous independent scholar, David was equally bold and original His recently published magnum opus, L'Exil Au Maghreb.
They share a fetal, larval quality, and that characterisation is not just conceptual, but a reflection of a new paradigm of the automobile that's still struggling to be born, as a design historian Phil Patton put it.
Suggesting he was a Washington insider, but one no-one could work with, that he'd taken money from the hated Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae government mortgage companies (as "a historian") and that he was a loose cannon.
Seen by many as a stock market historian, Sam Stovall has a thing for exchange-traded funds.
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This man, who went with Alexander as a kind of court historian, was a great supporter and cheerleader for six years until turning into a critic, rather suddenly, over the issue of whether Alexander ought to be greeted with a low bow, the way Persian monarchs were greeted.
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Only his friend Simon Schama, a trained historian who masquerades as a journalist, has managed the feat.
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But Balkoski said it angered him that a professional historian such as Ambrose would copy a fellow author's words without using quote marks.
Chris Marley, a great-nephew of Bob's father, has served as a kind of family historian over the years.
As Mark Clapson, a historian of Milton Keynes, points out, in the 1980s both that city and Peterborough ran national TV advertising campaigns intended to attract families and businesses.
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And ever since -- as an author, a historian and a crusader for tolerance -- she has taught the world that it is often in our most hopeless moments that we discover the extent of our strength and the depth of our love.
He was almost as proud of being an amateur jazz critic (writing for years, under a pseudonym, for the New Statesman) as he was of being a professional historian.
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"When the old guys look at a decoy, somewhere in their minds they see it floating in the water, as part of a rig, as part of hunting, " says Donna Tonelli, a decoy historian.
Graham Burnett, a young historian of science, served as the foreman of a jury examining an admitted killing in Manhattan's gay demi-monde.
What Tocqueville said and did, however, is not necessarily what modern followers would always want him to have done, as Mr Brogan, a British historian of America, makes clear.
As Terry Wyke, a local historian, points out, plans to build a massive hotel on top of the Royal Albert Hall in London would have provoked a national outcry.
Professor Klein is a historian and, as such, he makes little effort to explain or analyse the underlying economic causes of either the crash or the depression that followed it.
As a young adult she shares a flat with Joe, a brilliant young historian, but falls in love with a friend of his, a neonatologist called Adam.
As a trusted party member (and talented historian), he was allowed to travel to the Sorbonne to study, a rare privilege.
Bubbles, as described by Charles Kindleberger, a financial historian, usually involve an initial displacement, followed by rapid credit creation and then a phase of euphoria.
Beyond giving writers a spur to eloquence, what the historian Elizabeth Eisenstein calls "typographical fixity" served as a cultural preservative.
Mark Mazower, a British historian at Columbia University, New York, presents his work as a stocktaking: a chance, just as the West is seeing power shift to emerging giants in the East, to ponder how Europeans and Americans crafted the present web of international institutions, from the UN to the World Bank or International Monetary Fund.
Sid consults a colonial historian who dismisses it as fraudulent, though as fiction, he adds, it might win literary prizes.
Mr Rose, who as an historian of the book belongs to a growing sub-discipline, has written a masterly account of the way in which the British working classes (and that term must remain emphatically plural, since Mr Rose moves from the landlocked rural poor, to London's Jewish East End, to the clattering factory towns of north-western England) have taught, soothed and entertained themselves through their own intellectual resources.
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