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As the historian Michael Kazin writes in What It Took to Win, his 2022 history of the Democrats, “the party’s history is rife with missteps and outrages.”

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

"It's a European movement but France served as the catalyst," said Sylvain Boulouque, a historian of social movements.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Beth Lew-Williams, a historian at Princeton University, only discovered two weeks before her grandfather died in 2002 that he had been a paper son.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

But particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, American politicians started losing their sense of shame about deficits, argues Joseph Thorndike, an American historian of tax and fiscal policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Beware, La Gioconda is a dangerous picture,” writes the French historian Jules Michelet.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Since 1998, it has been possible to apply for your own file, and for historians to research those of others.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Of the 300,000 Chinese people who entered in defiance of that extraordinary restriction, historians believe the majority were boys and men posing as the children of natural-born citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Because traditional, low-tech methods to crack ciphers are effective but time- and labour-intensive, historians "have more important problems to solve, so many ciphers like this often sit unattended", said Church.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Although Nazi Germany pursued nuclear research through a program known as the Uranprojekt, historians have long debated how close its scientists came to developing a functioning reactor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

But the stories he told have been confirmed by other scholars and researchers and used by many historians as a source on Jefferson’s life ever since.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis