historian

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Ms. Bellows is a historian and the author of “The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 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

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

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

A historian who had lived at any time between 8500 B.C. and A.D.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond