historian
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As a historian of Jewish gender and antisemitism, I know the connections between misogyny and antisemitism have deep roots.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
Popcorn became the go-to movie snack during the 1930s as theaters sought new revenue streams during the Great Depression, said film historian Ross Melnick, a professor at UC Santa Barbara.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Real life is less faithful to that neat story line, according to Tyler Goodspeed, a Harvard and Cambridge-trained economic historian and the chief economist of Exxon Mobil.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
"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
Louis F. Burns, the eminent historian of the Osage, observed, “I don’t know of a single Osage family which didn’t lose at least one family member because of the headrights.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Week 5: Into the Past
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