historians

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Over the years, as some historians soured on Columbus’s treatment of Native Americans and the impact of colonization that followed his discovery, the city began removing his many tributes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Also called Mara Salvatrucha, historians say, MS-13 began in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Central L.A. in the late 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Keen-eyed fashion historians noticed that the late British singer and actor Jane Birkin caused a stir by wearing an almost identical dress to a Paris gala in 1969 with her then-partner Serge Gainsbourg.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

“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

What Shapin offers is essentially a circular argument: talk of constraint is incompatible with relativism, but historians are committed to relativism, consequently they must not talk of constraint.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton