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Exploring the World of Historians

This quiz explores key historical figures and concepts in the discipline of history, focusing on the qualifications and contributions of historians throughout the ages.

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1 Many with an undergraduate history degree also may become involved with administrative or clerical professions, and an undergraduate history degree is often used as a "stepping stone" to further studies such as a _____.

2 Despite this, ________ displays some of the techniques of more modern historians.

3 Traditionally, ________ and Thucydides have been regarded as the founders of the discipline of history, Herodotus usually being called The father of History.

4 [4] During the preparation of their thesis for this degree, many develop into their first book, since regular publishing activities are essential for advancement in ________.

5 If the individual is concerned with events preceding written history, the individual is a historian of ________.

6 [4] In addition, it is common, although not required, for many historians to have a ________ (PhD) degree in their chosen areas of study.

7 ________ was a famous Arab scholar and historian.

8 However, the most important historian of the classical world was ________ (late 1st and early 2nd century AD).

9 Referred to as "the first modern historian", ________ wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (three vols., 1776–1788).

10 Herodotus was also known for visiting the various battle sites he wrote about, including the ________.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the American Red Cross.
  • the historian and educator John Ardis Cawthon wrote about poor white settlers in the Louisiana hills, lonely cemeteries, ghost towns, and even his own ancestors.
  • the historian of the American West Herbert H. Lang researched a study of the role of Fort Worth, Texas, in the origins of the modern helium industry.
  • the historian Robert W. Mondy's Jesse Mercer: A Study in Frontier Religion, is a biography of the founder of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
  • the historian Mark T. Carleton penned a 1971 study entitled "Politics and Punishment" which described a sudden change in racial demographics in the Louisiana penal system.
  • in 1975, British historian Marcus Binney founded a lobby group for the preservation of endangered historic buildings.
  • on his death in 1727, antiquary and historian Thomas Madox's unpublished notes ran to ninety-four volumes, which his wife later left to be added to the British Museum's Sloane library.
  • the historian Jimmy G. Shoalmire specialized in Reconstruction in Red River Parish, Louisiana, ruled from 1868 to 1876 by carpetbagger State Senator Marshall Twitchell.
  • the Louisiana historian Garnie W. McGinty's Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880 is an enduring study of Reconstruction in McGinty's native state.
  • the Louisiana Tech University named its Endowed Professorship in History after historian John D. Winters.
  • the final decades of Visigothic rule in Spain have been labelled "protofeudal" by Spanish historians, but this label has been largely rejected in English historiography.
  • the original Act of Independence of Lithuania (pictured), which was signed on February 16, 1918, is still being searched for by historians.
  • the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary.
  • the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general, physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II.
  • the Laetare Medal, an award for an American Catholic who has made an outstanding contribution to society, was first given to the historian John Gilmary Shea in 1883.
  • the Texas historian Ernest Wallace was once a consultant to the Justice Department regarding suits filed by the Kiowa and Comanche against the U.S. government.
  • the Vienna-born historian Saul K. Padover wrote definitive biographies of figures as diverse as Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson.
  • in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur.
  • in 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin, an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West.
  • Indian historian V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar believed that ancient South Indians may have known of Australia and Polynesia before their discovery by Europeans.
  • Indian historian and Dravidologist K. A. Nilakanta Sastri served as the Director of UNESCO's Institute of Traditional Culture.
  • Norwegian historian Tore LinnĂ© Eriksen has published several books about Namibia, including one on what was described as the first genocide in the twentieth century.
  • Indian historian V. Kanakasabhai, who was the first to attempt a systematic chronology of Tamils, was of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry.
  • historian Willard Hughes Rollings published a study of the Osage Nation entitled Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion.
  • aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II.
  • historian P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar believed that Kanchipuram was the southernmost outpost of Sanskrit culture during the pre-Pallava period.
  • Oklahoma historian Angie Debo won numerous honors for her books on Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department.
  • Édouard Richard, a two-term member of the Canadian House of Commons and Acadian historian, practiced law with future Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.
  • Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer, and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • Parke H. Davis, who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research.
  • in 1924 the Texas historian Rupert N. Richardson became one of the founders of the West Texas Historical Association.
  • Jessie Webb, an Australian academic and historian, was the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne.
  • J. Evetts Haley, the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas, told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up".
  • Charles Hucker, a leading historian on Imperial China, was awarded the Bronze Star in World War II and wrote plays.
  • George Ormerod, an English antiquary and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816.
  • 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun, the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan.
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