For some nineteenth-century historians, it originated as part of a larger plot, diabolical and Spanish, to wage war on humane and liberal values or as something similarly sinister.

She was never entirely cut off, as nineteenth-century religious historians sometimes claimed when trying to explain the heterodox character of the Celtic Church.

The campaign gave rise to much controversy among nineteenth-century historians.

As a nineteenth-century historian described, "with Spaniards and residents of Coro, a priest named Torellas, a surgeon, ten thousand cartridges, a howitzer, and ten hundredweights of food."

The Congress of Vienna was frequently criticized by nineteenth-century and more recent historians for ignoring national and liberal impulses, and for imposing a stifling reaction on the Continent.

The historian Francis Parkman also was a fan, but later nineteenth-century historians pushed Native American history to the side of the American story.

A real-life Hans Delbrück was a nineteenth-century military historian; his son Max Delbrück was a twentieth-century biochemist and Nobel laureate.

The early nineteenth-century iconoclastic historian, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, wrote that Piso was the first Roman historian to introduce systematic forgeries.

Charles Adrien Casimir Barbier de Meynard (1826-1908) was a nineteenth-century French historian and orientalist.

He has written that the "classic example" of presentism was the so-called "Whig history", in which certain eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British historians wrote history in a way that used the past to validate their own political beliefs.