historian
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As a historian of Jewish gender and antisemitism, I know the connections between misogyny and antisemitism have deep roots.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
Popcorn became the go-to movie snack during the 1930s as theaters sought new revenue streams during the Great Depression, said film historian Ross Melnick, a professor at UC Santa Barbara.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Real life is less faithful to that neat story line, according to Tyler Goodspeed, a Harvard and Cambridge-trained economic historian and the chief economist of Exxon Mobil.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Ms. Gage—whose nuanced 2022 biography of J. Edgar Hoover balanced the FBI director’s excesses against his achievements—is an accomplished historian and a capable writer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
As historian Lerone Bennett Jr. eloquently reminds us, “a nation is a choice.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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