academic historian

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicandhistorian

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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historian
noun[C]
uk
/hɪˈstɔː.ri.ən/
us
/hɪˈstɔːr.i.ən/
someone who writes about or ...
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(Definition ofacademicandhistorianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacademic historian

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Again, the author does not try to cover areas of social history which might interest theacademichistorian.
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For theacademichistorianin search of facts, a secondary operation may consist in regarding these stories as containing the germ of a verifiable fact.
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The first concerns the role of theacademichistorianor archaeologist.
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However, it is clearly valuable to theacademichistorianand sheds light on a wide number of historiographical debates, although its contributions are largely implicit.
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It brings the perspectives of theacademichistoriansubsequently turned businessman to the study of a group often ignored by some historians.
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So my little moment of glory as anacademichistorianwas, in a sense, snuffed out before it even began.
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That applies whether it is theacademichistorianwriting a work of history or whether it is those in the profession of journalism, through whatever medium.
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Academic historians have not featured heavily in the processes of pre-designation research and evaluation.
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Nasaw told the family that as anacademichistorian, he had no interest in writing an authorized biography.
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By contrast, academic historians betray a sort of puzzled fascination with this (while being aware of the potentially lucrative nature of the subject).
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It is multi-authored and led by two academic historians of proven scholarship and writing abilities.
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In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the prestige of academic historians was great but their numbers were few.
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They were not waiting for academic historians to render judgements about the relationship between the old era and the new.
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I am also sorry that the academic historians who put their names to her amendment are not in their places.
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Self-taught, amateur, or dissident academic historians manipulate and/or misrepresent historical accounts to achieve deliberate political ends.
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Within literature, history distinguishes between books published by academic historians doing peer-reviewed work based on credible sources, and deceptive history books based on uncredible sources.
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The term planter has no universally accepted definition but academic historians have defined it to identify the elite class, a landowning farmer of substantial means.
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