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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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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

The irony is dark, but as historian Rick Perlstein has sharply argued, it is really not that surprising.

From Salon • May 26, 2026

“Gender politics are impossible to ignore here,” said Summer Anne Lee, a fashion historian.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 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

But slaveholders blamed the violence on a “sinister Northern abolitionist plot to destroy their cherished way of life,” as one historian put it.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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