historian

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“The real Marcus Aurelius seems to be basically a Roman rather than a Stoic,” one historian wrote in 1969.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Auslin is a historian at the Hoover Institution and author of “National Treasure,” a history of the Declaration of Independence to be published in May by Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Being compelled to think like that is useful because many of those questions are the questions that good historians should be asking themselves anyway."

From BBC

The “emancipationist vision of Civil War memory” faded, as Yale University historian David Blight detailed in “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory,” and “romance triumphed over reality.”

From Salon

That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.

From The Wall Street Journal