historians

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“If there are historians in the future, they’ll look back at Starship and say it was one of the most profound things that ever happened,” Musk said in a podcast interview last December.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Other historians, like Jakob Tanner, say the secrecy over the files reveals more about Switzerland than they may ever do about Mengele.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Mainstream contemporary historians view the Constitution as a compromise between free and slaveholding states.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

Most historians are concentrating on the birth itself, when 13 disparate colonies along the east coast of North America declared their intention to separate from Great Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

What came as a complete surprise were the scores of musical instruments recovered, some of which were unknown to music historians prior to their discovery.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler