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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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Hillyer, a historian at Lewis & Clark, has been teaching it since 2012 and wrote about the experience in the 2024 book A Wall Is Just a Wall, published by Duke University Press.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

The irony is dark, but as historian Rick Perlstein has sharply argued, it is really not that surprising.

From Salon • May 26, 2026

Industrialization posed the question, the author writes, of whether, as the historian James Truslow Adams put it, “a Jeffersonian democracy could survive in a Hamiltonian economy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office said it would look into such posts, one of which falsely attributed the message to historian Heather Cox Richardson.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

“I only wish that the French would consider it a copy,” the Italian art historian Corrado Ricci said.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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