historian
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Industrialization posed the question, the author writes, of whether, as the historian James Truslow Adams put it, “a Jeffersonian democracy could survive in a Hamiltonian economy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office said it would look into such posts, one of which falsely attributed the message to historian Heather Cox Richardson.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
The historian argued that Castro feared any rapprochement with Washington would spur political and economic reforms on the island that would jeopardise his absolute power.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
With its “low wages and lack of benefits,” the economic historian Lind writes, “Walmart represented anti-Fordism.”
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
“Jefferson sold several young men with a propensity for running away,” Monticello historian Lucia Stanton explains, “in accordance with his policy of ridding his domain of disruptive elements.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing historian
"Mysteries of the Ancient Past"
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Week 5: Into the Past
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