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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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“This amounts to a real right to bail in hundreds of thousands of cases, which previously in California might have led to detention,” said Kellen R. Funk, a legal historian at Columbia Law School.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Hillyer, a historian at Lewis & Clark, has been teaching it since 2012 and wrote about the experience in the 2024 book A Wall Is Just a Wall, published by Duke University Press.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

The new crop of bearded and mustachioed pols is just the beginning, predicts Trainor, the historian.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

The irony is dark, but as historian Rick Perlstein has sharply argued, it is really not that surprising.

From Salon • May 26, 2026

The first to point this out was an Italian art historian named Federico Zeri, who served on the Getty’s board of trustees.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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