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“Oct. 7 has caused a sea change in the treatment of British Jews,” Mr. Montefiore, a historian, says in an interview at his own dinner table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

High-profile British historian Mary Beard was similarly unconvinced, though like Wilson she welcomed the interest in Homer.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Lyle Cherneff: Maryland historian Richard Paul Fugate estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 children, in the first weeks after emancipation alone, were re-enslaved through these fraudulent indenture contracts.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

It is little wonder that presidential historian Tevi Troy called the 1950s “The Martin and Lewis Decade.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

As a result, Jamestown and the other Virginia forays survived on Indian charity—they were “utterly dependent and therefore controllable,” in the phrase of Karen Ordahl Kupperman, a New York University historian.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The answer seems clear to me: The only professionals who keep diaries believe that future historians are going to be interested in them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Even here, though, historians have noted that the Soviet Union’s near-simultaneous invasion of Manchuria—which dispelled Japan’s illusion that Moscow might stay neutral in the war—also had an impact on the emperor’s calculations.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.

From Salon ● 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

Washington never revealed Mulligan’s achievements, but some historians say the tailor exposed two plots to kill Washington.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen