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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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Looking back, historian Ole-Jørgen Schulsrud-Hansen said: "I think that moment has been burned into our minds of what a monarchy should be."

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Perz, the historian, said a debate like the one today around the Hirtenberg site "would have been impossible in the 1980s", adding that there is now "more sensitivity" towards former Nazi sites.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University historian who writes about white evangelicals and gender, was not surprised.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Self-defense, the historian wrote, naturally required “the perpetual repetition” of what he called “the vainest and most disgusting of the pronouns”: the first-person singular.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

His name was Alexander McKee and he was a British journalist, a historian, and an accomplished diver.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

That possibility gives historians a new way to interpret the AKL and the political motives behind it.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

In fact, historians do not really know how it was pronounced, he said.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

The striking features of Sanxingdui’s humanoid figures—so “un-Chinese” in their appearance—have prompted a wholesale rethinking of what historians thought they knew about the origins of Chinese civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Future historians may make their living trying to figure out what happened to McConnell — hell, that story might become a comic book, though not one as popular as Superman.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

Before the arrival of Europeans, North America was indeed a “continent of villages,” as some historians have called it, but it was also a continent of nations and alliances among nations.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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