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“I simply cannot imagine America or France beginning their national story with a massive defeat,” says Tom Holland, a historian, Æthelstan fan and co-presenter of the podcast The Rest Is History.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Placed next to her at a dinner party, the Irish historian Roy Foster began telling her how much he liked her novels and was instantly cut short.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

As the historian Michael Kazin writes in What It Took to Win, his 2022 history of the Democrats, “the party’s history is rife with missteps and outrages.”

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

"It's a European movement but France served as the catalyst," said Sylvain Boulouque, a historian of social movements.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Charlie knew a prominent historian of financial crises, a former professor of his, and took to calling him.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Next year marks 1,100 years since that day, and a band of enthusiasts, historians and lawmakers are preparing to celebrate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

He added that Fr Doyle was a prolific letter writer whose personal correspondence has become an important eyewitness source for historians.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Although Nazi Germany pursued nuclear research through a program known as the Uranprojekt, historians have long debated how close its scientists came to developing a functioning reactor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

But later historians have naturally turned the phrase ‘Whig history’ back against Butterfield himself, accusing him of taking for granted the superiority of modern science over all that went before.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton