historian

Mainwaring shared with me the notes of Henry P. Anderson, a historian and farm labor organizer, who took a guided tour of a Calexico bracero processing center in 1958:

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the fourteenth secretary in 173 years of the institution, but also the first Black man and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

“It would be a jump into the unknown and a big risk,” said Andreas Rödder, a historian and longtime critic of the arrangement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

He eventually succeeded in 1836 with the assistance of Sir William Napier, a retired army officer and prominent military historian.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

“These calls often came late at night,” says the historian, who preferred to remain anonymous.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The three-year project led by specialist historians compiles "The Register of British Slave Traders", a list that details as many as "10,500 investors" in "Britain's near-250 year transatlantic slave trade" in African people.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

I participated in many of those decisions, and historians, policymakers and the general public will continue arguing about them long after those of us who were involved are gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Curating with reverence and love, Rosales uses her voice to establish a baseline of respect that many historians fail to achieve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

The historians and the scientists at Cambridge shared a common education: Latin was a compulsory entrance requirement.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton