historian
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"The scrutiny of Biden and Trump because of their age operates in a totally different plane," the political historian said.
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
Hillyer, a historian at Lewis & Clark, has been teaching it since 2012 and wrote about the experience in the 2024 book A Wall Is Just a Wall, published by Duke University Press.
From Slate • May 27, 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
“A most gifted magical historian and an old friend of Albus’s.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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