historian

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Yet this strangely compelling work has simultaneously beguiled and baffled art historians for generations, starting with the odd moment that Pontormo chose to depict in his innovative way, isolated from the rest of the narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Allport, a historian at Syracuse University, found this lovely missive in the digital archive of RAF Bomber Command, one of the many archives he has culled to put this book together.

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But Lord Roberts, a historian, has argued the Earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain should be allowed to keep their hereditary seats in the Lords.

From BBC

In a globalized world, there is a sense among Jews that, unlike the past, there is no far-flung land to escape to, said Sara Hirschhorn, a historian at the University of Haifa in Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the historian Daniel Dreisbach has observed, the King James Bible was “the most accessible, authoritative, and venerated text in early colonial society.”

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