How to Use historian in a Sentence

historian

noun
  • As a historian of the club, Jay knew all this.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Allen has served as the park historian for twenty-three years.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • My father was a great historian of this.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • All this to say, Coontz is a historian, not a self-help guru.
    — Kimberly Harrington, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • His cause of death is still a matter of dispute among historians.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • The historian blames lil T’s shift from team player to lone wolf.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Its lead historian, Adam Hachey, says it very well could be.
    — Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The author of the letter was not, in fact, a historian.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026
  • Aside from being a chef, Lewis was a historian.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The art historian was grasping at straws.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In 1831 an historian marked his grave with a stone.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • The historian looks back on the witch hunts of centuries past in the series finale.
    — cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The historian looks back on the witch hunts of centuries past in the series finale.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
  • So who is right, the students, who plant themselves in the now, or the forlorn historian?
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Many thousands are still here, but the wartime mood is very different, the historian says.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And, historians agree, in the past some Olympians were paid under the table.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
  • The historians filed out of the hall and into the outer galleries, happy to stretch their legs.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There are many very fine historians working on the Tudors.
    — Phillipa Gregory, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • As a historian, the first thing is chronology.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There’s also some appearances from famous fans of the film as well as movie historians.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The French historian never wrote the book.
    — Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Two historians in particular put out the call for help.
    — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Sturdevant, the town historian, was even more direct about the stakes.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • But the historian’s focus is on the home front, and its lessons are shockingly urgent.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • By silencing artists and historians, a regime seeks to control not just the present, but the past and the future as well.
    — Andrew Weinstein, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, some historians estimate that a fourth of all cowboys were Black.
    — Dan Kelly july 19, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2025
  • But then a handsome historian arrives for a stay, and his help might just be the key to getting her life − and magic − back.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • That paradox, say historians, is at the heart of France’s struggles to come to terms with its colonial past.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This was not mere paranoia, the historian Marc-William Palen has shown.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • For historians, the archive might establish signposts for a route, the who, what, where, when, why.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026

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