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

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

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

From Salon • May 14, 2026

One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton