historians

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He is writing for a general rather than a scholarly audience, so he does not much bother with the debates among historians about these two giants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

It also relied on the expertise of the BBC's Igbo service, Igbo historians and features first-hand accounts from survivors, some of whom have never spoken publicly about their trauma before.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Also called Mara Salvatrucha, historians say, MS-13 began in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Central L.A. in the late 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Keen-eyed fashion historians noticed that the late British singer and actor Jane Birkin caused a stir by wearing an almost identical dress to a Paris gala in 1969 with her then-partner Serge Gainsbourg.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Some historians and legal scholars refer to the United States as “a nation of laws.”

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz