historians

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“If there are historians in the future, they’ll look back at Starship and say it was one of the most profound things that ever happened,” Musk said in a podcast interview last December.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Ada Ferrer is one of the country’s leading historians of Cuba and her timely memoir, “Keeper of My Kin,” arrives at a moment of renewed urgency for Cuba.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Instead of singers and dancers, passengers on these journeys will find scientists, historians and nature guides.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Tom had signed his letters to the Le Bretons as "Bokijon Akram", but neither they nor Jersey historians knew his full name or exactly where he came from.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee