historian
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"There were certain professional fields where there were a lot of party members, for example civil servants and teachers," the historian told AFP.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
"Americans historically have wanted masculine presidents, vigorous presidents," said Dr Matt Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
“This amounts to a real right to bail in hundreds of thousands of cases, which previously in California might have led to detention,” said Kellen R. Funk, a legal historian at Columbia Law School.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
“We’re re-emerging in this kind of new bearded age,” said Sean Trainor, a facial-hair historian whose dissertation “Groomed for Power” examined the underpinnings of the golden age of political beards in the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 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
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