“The Roman historian Suetonius mentions that the island was captured by the commander Vespasian.”
“The historian George Bancroft, who wrote an essay on the Acadians himself, was starting his ten-volume History of the United States.”
“And who better to help share its history than resident historian and fifth-generation Kansan, Deborah Barker?”
historism
(historiography) An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and instead emphasized the idiosyncrasies and organic developments of each culture and time period, to be understood through critical interpretation of primary sources in the context of the unique conditions that produced them.
“For a historian or anthropologist who has researched subjects like historiology, this book may be a summation of arguments the researcher has already encountered.”