historian
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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
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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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