historian
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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
My job as a historian, regardless of the topic, is to denaturalize what we take for granted.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
“We’re re-emerging in this kind of new bearded age,” said Sean Trainor, a facial-hair historian whose dissertation “Groomed for Power” examined the underpinnings of the golden age of political beards in the 19th century.
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
But he was an expert horseman, a self- taught violinist, and an amateur geologist, astronomer, and natural historian.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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"Mysteries of the Ancient Past"
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