historian
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It is possible that a future historian will look back on this moment as a time of popular constitutionalism.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
It is little wonder that presidential historian Tevi Troy called the 1950s “The Martin and Lewis Decade.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The difficulty lies in the technology’s combination of extreme complexity with extreme precision, said Chris Miller, a historian of technology at Tufts University and author of “Chip War.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It comes days after Anthea Hartig, historian and director of the National Museum of American History, testified before a US House subcommittee and faced harsh criticism from Republican lawmakers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
“The human career,” wrote the historian Ronald Wright, “divides in two: everything before the Neolithic Revolution and everything after it.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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It’s what she and countless other historians set out to do when they first started studying the past.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Of the options for what to do with it once bought, demolishing the site was out of the question for historians.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
And it echoes something sleep historians have long noted: in pre-industrial times before artificial lighting, humans often slept in two blocks.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
By 1931, according to financial historians, 63% of New York Stock Exchange-listed firms were publishing their quarterly earnings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
We are all equally surprised that we have been designated civil rights icons who changed history in the eyes of historians and the American people.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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