historians

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The tale of Athenian overreach is better known today than its Spartan counterpart, largely because Thucydides, one of antiquity’s finest historians, captured it in his account of the Peloponnesian War, which began in 431 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

“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

Mainstream contemporary historians view the Constitution as a compromise between free and slaveholding states.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

His glasswork, she said, is understood as preeminent by Tiffany historians, who don’t often come by artists who can authentically reproduce the luster of age-worn glass.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

This does not mean that its rightness was always apparent, although careless historians and scientists often imply as much; it does mean that its rightness becomes incontestable, at least for a period of time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton