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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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While activists and heroes usually get most of the public’s attention, queer historian and author Timothy Stewart-Winter argues that it’s just as important to focus on the more complicated figures.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Batter’s father, John, is a historian at a California community college.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

For Ronald Kline, a historian at Cornell University, "the phrase 'super intelligence' means more than simulating human intelligence, it means going beyond human intelligence," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Simon Sebag-Montefiore is a historian and author of “The Cauldron: the Making of the Modern Middle East.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

“A most gifted magical historian and an old friend of Albus’s.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The technology is transforming the work of historians not only by decoding documents, but also by analysing millions of medieval manuscripts or helping read ancient scrolls.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some historians have proposed that the eruption occurred later in the fall of 79 CE.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

But it was women of colour who really made manicures an accessible and fashionable form of self-expression, historians say.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In 2001, in response to such critiques, the Smithsonian convened a blue-ribbon commission of historians and others led by Richard Darman, a former top aide in Republican White Houses.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

One might think that the historians of technology would have wanted to question this disjuncture between theory and practice—but at first they were the same people as the historians of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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