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As the historian Michael Kazin writes in What It Took to Win, his 2022 history of the Democrats, “the party’s history is rife with missteps and outrages.”

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

"It's a European movement but France served as the catalyst," said Sylvain Boulouque, a historian of social movements.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

So, too, do Spartacus and his slave rebellion, the Greek historian Herodotus and Alexander, whose mysterious death is explored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

All this brings to mind historian Barbara Tuchman’s “The March of Folly.”

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

As a historian, he had studied both the explosions of the Edgar in 1711 and the Boyne in 1795.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

It is taboo in China to crack jokes about Mao, who died in 1976 and whose drastic policies are blamed by historians for mass starvation and millions of deaths.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Many historians would disagree; Pierre Duhem and Herbert Butterfield dated the start of the scientific revolution to around 1300.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Although historians are unaware of her ever returning to Elham, residents remain "incredibly proud" that one of the world's best-known actresses once called their community home.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Some historians have proposed that the eruption occurred later in the fall of 79 CE.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Professional historians still disagree about the solution; most are no longer even asking the question.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond