historian

[ hi-stawr-ee-uh n, -stohr- ]

/ hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /

an expert in history; authority on history.

a writer of history; chronicler.

Origin of historian

1400–50; late Middle English. See history, -an

Historian Matthew Avery Sutton, however, wants you to think of something else: the End Times.

The Evangelical Apocalypse Is All Your Fault |Jay Michaelson |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Michael Kazin is a historian who has written a lot about the New Left.

Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society |Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
But Winning Marriage will be essential for the historian who, someday, tries to tell the full story.

The Real Story Behind the Fight for Marriage Equality |E.J. Graff |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“Stop the presses,” splashes Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer.

Wonder Woman’s Creation Story Is Wilder Than You Could Ever Imagine |Tom Arnold-Forster |November 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Historian David Fromkin summed up the mess that resulted in the title of his book The Peace to End All Peace.

Turkish President Declares Lawrence of Arabia a Bigger Enemy than ISIS |Jamie Dettmer |October 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But more important to the historian of literature even than the development of qualities is the evolution of types.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 |Various
The writer's rank, as a theologian to begin with, and subsequently as a historian of Greek philosophy, is of the highest.

Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions |Thomas H. Huxley
His intimacy with the historian Polybius has been already mentioned.

A Smaller History of Rome |William Smith and Eugene Lawrence
It is likely, too, that this book would have constituted his surest claim to high rank as an historian.

William Hickling Prescott |Harry Thurston Peck
A historian of this latter period asserts that the inhabitants are all either Methodists or Presbyterians.

The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 |Ben Casseday

historian

/ (hɪˈstɔːrɪən) /

a person who writes or studies history, esp one who is an authority on it