historian
Example Sentences
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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
As a historian of Jewish gender and antisemitism, I know the connections between misogyny and antisemitism have deep roots.
From Salon • 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
In the daily plebiscite on America, this Ivy League historian votes “Yes, but.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
I recently ran across a marvelous book by the historian Roberta Wohlstetter called Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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