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historians

NOUN
student of history
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Rigorously researched, “Skipping School” will interest historians of education and general readers curious about the place of homeschooling in American life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Of the options for what to do with it once bought, demolishing the site was out of the question for historians.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

And it echoes something sleep historians have long noted: in pre-industrial times before artificial lighting, humans often slept in two blocks.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Though many critics and historians have tried, it’s impossible to get to the true root of a work as oblique as “Possession.”

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

What Shapin offers is essentially a circular argument: talk of constraint is incompatible with relativism, but historians are committed to relativism, consequently they must not talk of constraint.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton



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