historian

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David G. Schwartz, a gaming historian and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said Primm’s casinos were “built for an entirely different world.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Beginning in 1888 and continuing until the late 1960s, about 16 million tonnes of coal were extracted from the Comox Valley, according to historian Dawn Copeman.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

It was Edward Gibbon, the great historian of ancient Rome, who first observed that luxury goods constituted a “voluntary tax” that the rich paid to the people who produced those goods.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

"She was a royal, but at the same time, a chief priest," says local historian Emmanuel Arkoful, a distant relative.

From BBC • May 2, 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