Popular Afrikaner interpretations of the Battle of Blood River (bolstered by sympathetic English historians such as G.M. Theal) played a central role in fostering ethnic nationalism among white Afrikaners.

In accounting for the failure of the"Fifteen, historians sympathetic to Jacobitism tend to stress how difficult it is to launch a successful invasion, and that all the trump cards lie with the government of the day.

Nonetheless, he added, the work, "despite its many questionable judgments, will take its place in the Roosevelt literature as a standard against which other, more sympathetic historians will have to argue."

"To understand Mr. Haider, you must see that he's a late edition of the neo-conservative wave that totally passed Austria by in the 1980's and 1990's," said Lothar Hobelt, a historian sympathetic to him.

The San Francisco Vigilance Movements of 1851 and 1856 are often described by sympathetic historians as responses to rampant crime and government corruption.

Some historians have suggested that historians sympathetic to the Neo-Confederate movement are influenced by the Dunning School's interpretation of history.

Levi was troubled by the sentimental distortions of survivors and sympathetic historians and by the collective amnesia of those responsible for the exterminations.

The same researcher also suggests that the aforementioned "Dale of Liangmo" place was fabricated by the biased historian sympathetic to Goguryeo.

More sympathetic historians highlight that Metternich correctly foresaw and worked to prevent Russian dominance in Europe, succeeding where his forebears would fail 130 years later.

As an early sympathetic historian of the Gaelic world in English, O'Halloran has faced criticism for being too sympathetic.