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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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“It just happened in 10 seconds,” Dodgers historian Mark Langill said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

Buckingham Palace has also announced that award-winning historian Dr Anna Keay will write the the late monarch's official authorised biography.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

As medical historian Richard Shryock observed: “In reviewing the circumstances of health in early America, one almost wonders that so many people survived and that the country grew and prospered.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

And if you’re an historian of ancient Greece and Rome, like I am, it’s the steady stream of comparisons between the modern world and the Roman Empire.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

The art historian George Ortiz was once asked by Ernst Langlotz, one of the world’s foremost experts on archaic sculpture, whether he wanted to purchase a bronze statuette.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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