historian
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But even that power requires public cooperation, taking the form of what historian Timothy Snyder, a leading authority on authoritarianism, describes as “anticipatory obedience.”
From Salon
Moreover, historians consistently misdated it to the summer of 1860, when Lincoln was the Republican candidate for president.
Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China.
In “One of Us,” Elizabeth Day’s shrewd novel of political ambition and personal retribution, the unlikely avenger is a diffident British art historian.
Boritt, a Hungarian refugee who became an influential historian of two archetypical American subjects—Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War—died on Feb. 2 in Chambersburg, Pa. He was 86.
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