historian

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With its “low wages and lack of benefits,” the economic historian Lind writes, “Walmart represented anti-Fordism.”

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

But Swiss historian Regula Bochsler always wondered whether Mengele returned again, crucially, after an international warrant for his arrest had been issued in 1959.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

“Ultimately,” notes Mr. Freymann, a historian and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, “Beijing’s interest in Taiwan has always been—and always will be—deeply tied to its military rivalry with the United States.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

As food historian Michael Pollan has written, “Virtually every homestead in America had an orchard from which literally thousands of gallons of cider were made every year.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler