historian

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"Presidents have often offered timelines to buy time with the public" during wars, said Thomas Patterson, a historian at the Harvard Kennedy School, "and almost all of them underestimate the time."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The impish English historian hosts a two-part series on the revolution and her own nation’s blunders during the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Ms. Gage—whose nuanced 2022 biography of J. Edgar Hoover balanced the FBI director’s excesses against his achievements—is an accomplished historian and a capable writer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

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 • Mar. 27, 2026

As explained by historian Edmund Morgan, in colonies like Virginia, the planter elite, with huge land grants, occupied a vastly superior position to workers of all colors.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander