historian
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With its “low wages and lack of benefits,” the economic historian Lind writes, “Walmart represented anti-Fordism.”
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
“Many of the big Expos were commemorative,” says Paul Greenhalgh, a British historian and author of two books on World’s Fairs and Expositions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
One historian on the Bergier Commission was permitted, briefly, to look at some of the Mengele files in 1999, and concluded that it was impossible to prove or disprove his presence on Swiss territory.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
"People discussed, disputed, and imagined alternative political and economic orders," wrote the historian Melvyn Leffler.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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