He remains, however, the state's best-known academic historian, with an influence that continues to be felt today.

Since the publication of his extraordinary book "The Face of Battle" in 1976 he has probably become the best-known military historian in the world.

Judith Victor Grabiner (born 1938) is an American mathematician who is among the best-known historians of mathematics.

Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Mali's best-known historian, spent much of his life writing these oral traditions down for the world to remember.

Its subject, its style and certainly its contents, an unusual mingling of fact and invention, represent a major departure for one of the country's best-known historians.

"It's always been 'up and at em,' " said Franklin Garrett, Atlanta's best-known historian.

He has not only the fault of diffuseness, which is common to so many of the best-known historians of his century, but others as serious or more so.

The recipes are intriguing, but the real interest is the introductory material by Ms. Hess, one of this country's best-known culinary historians.

Her writing proved popular and she became "one of the best-known and prolific historians of her time".

The most important and best-known historians managed to survive and were accorded to leading positions.