historian
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My job as a historian, regardless of the topic, is to denaturalize what we take for granted.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Speaking to the Post, historian Julian Zelizer called Trump historically unique in his use of profanity and how it “meshes with a very aggressive presidency” and a high-dominant leadership style.
From Salon • May 26, 2026
"Cities are layered entities. Different generations leave their mark on them," historian Narayani Gupta once observed.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
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
Similarly, a European historian is not satisfied with describing the condition of Europe in both 1815 and 1918 as having just achieved peace after a costly pan-European war.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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