Only in the last 10 years have historians begun to explore this period.
It wasn't until the 1990s until historians began to speak out.
It was not long before historians began to refer to the milestone at which an event occurred.
In the late 20th century, historians began reanalyzing the body of evidence.
Most historians begin the era in 1980, when Reagan was elected president.
Recently, Russian historians have begun describing this as a distinct battle.
Some historians began using computers to develop new research methods in the mid-1960s.
By the mid-1980s, right-wing German historians began to think it was time for the nation to start celebrating much of its history again.
But military historians soon began to question the numbers.
With a solid foundation now in place, she says, historians are beginning to ask the large questions that make good synthesis inevitable.