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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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Buckingham Palace has also announced that award-winning historian Dr Anna Keay will write the the late monarch's official authorised biography.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

And if you’re an historian of ancient Greece and Rome, like I am, it’s the steady stream of comparisons between the modern world and the Roman Empire.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

Mr. Bishop, a writer and historian, is the former executive director of the International Churchill Society and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

As a historian of racism, Kendi has always known that racism is global.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

Not all immigrants believed that was true, but as one historian has written, “Whenever life could hardly be worse at home, they came to believe that life was better in America.”

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




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