historian
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Charles Ives’s remarkable orchestral work “The Fourth of July” was, as film composer Bernard Herrmann told oral historian Vivien Perlis, intended as more than a mere poetic impression of an occasion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026
Colonists even dressed up as Native Americans for the Boston Tea Party—a practice that historian Philip Deloria refers to as “playing Indian.”
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2026
“We are not only but also,” the sociologist and cultural historian Todd Gitlin wrote in his 1995 book “The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
The historian Kevin M. Kruse has shown that the rise of religious language reflected domestic political concerns as well.
From Salon • Jun. 29, 2026
“He’s a military historian at the United States Naval Academy; of course he wanted me to go. He just wanted me to go as a boy. Why do you think I was named Edda?”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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"Mysteries of the Ancient Past"
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Week 5: Into the Past
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