Historians believe the Maya people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

In fact,much of what historians know about the president's time at the house is from stories told by those soldiers.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Historians say Congress was also unsure about the loyalties of the Alaska natives -- the Aleuts, Indians and Eskimos.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Historians say she was the strongest influence on the education of American young people during the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Historians say a trial in the colony of New York in seventeen thirty-five went a long way toward establishing this freedom.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

He was forty years old. Over the years,historians and medical experts have tried to explain the cause of Poe's death.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

But some historians suggest that the inclusion of opponents may not have been as smart an idea as Lincoln had hoped.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The historians also looked at administrative ability, relations with Congress, goal setting and the pursuit of equal justice for all.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Historians say British mapmaker Bartholomew Gosnold first made a map of the island for the rulers of England in sixteen-oh-two.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

Questions about Eleanor Dare and the other lost colonists continually bring historians and other researchers to Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Historians believe that cacao seeds were also used in marriage ceremonies as a sign of the union between a husband and wife.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Yet agriculture is failing." Historians give four major reasons why agriculture was failing in the late eighteen eighties.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Medical historians say the death of Clara Maass also created a public protest over the use of humans in yellow fever research.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Historians say the trial formed the beginning of the legal idea that a statement is not libelous if it can be proven true.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Most historians believe that Etruscan society reached its height more than two thousand five hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Historians say the Italian scientist and mathematician may not have been the first to get a good look at the moon and planets.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

But historians say Webster's support for the compromise of eighteen fifty probably helped delay that crisis.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The nineteen twenties are remembered now as an exciting time that historians call the "Roaring Twenties."

VOA: special.2010.12.30

Historians say that by writing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln established a moral purpose for the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The historians named America's first president, George Washington, as second on the list of greatest presidents.

VOA: special.2009.02.27