A French historian and political leader, Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, had the idea for the statue.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

We separated and yet managed to come back together." David Blight is a historian at Yale University in Connecticut and an expert on the Civil War.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Tom Schwartz is the Illinois state historian and an expert on Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

By including blacks, Lincoln expanded "the borders of freedom," says historian Tom Schwartz.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

This,explains historian Francois Bugnion, is the origin of the Geneva Conventions.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Historian Donald Kennon says Jackson was considered the first "people's president."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Yet,says Swiss historian Francois Bugnion, the battle lasted only twelve hours.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

University of Minnesota historian Elaine Tyler May says (OMITTED) it came from the vision of two women: Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Estonian historian Meelis Marituu told VOA he agrees with that assessment, but adds an element the Kremlin ignores.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Ukrainian historian Serhiy Stelmakh is a member of the Russian History Department at Shevchenko State University in Kyiv.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So,for the past year, he reviewed something no historian ever had: Bolivar's medical records dating back 10 years before his death in 1830.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Historian Marc Masurovsky is co-founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (SAYING) Masurovsky often turns to Spiegler to discuss thorny legal and ethical questions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Jeffery Wassertstrom a Historian professor at the University of California,Irvine, says China is trying to reclaim the powerful status it held hundreds of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Ken Albala is a food historian at University of the Pacific in Stockton,California.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Matt Dallek is a political historian at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Daniel Pipes, a conservative Mideast historian who runs the Middle East Forum and Campus Watch websites, he says a number of private Islamic schools in America offer their students a curriculum laced with extremist content.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

This is presidential historian and author Robert Dallek: "Once the public turns against a war, once it is convinced that you are embarked upon if not a losing enterprise then something that is going to produce a quagmire, it creates tremendous political difficulties for the president and it undermines his credibility, trust in his judgment and his ability to put across his domestic reforms,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09