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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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During his reign, the Norwegian monarchy became more egalitarian and transparent with finances and health, Ole-Jørgen Schulsrud-Hansen, historian and TV2 royal correspondent, told the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Perz, the historian, said a debate like the one today around the Hirtenberg site "would have been impossible in the 1980s", adding that there is now "more sensitivity" towards former Nazi sites.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University historian who writes about white evangelicals and gender, was not surprised.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Carcopino’s text was indeed a popular standard, and even if scholars of ancient slavery have long since abandoned this exculpatory view, any living historian of ancient Rome can confirm that the misjudgment lingers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Not all immigrants believed that was true, but as one historian has written, “Whenever life could hardly be worse at home, they came to believe that life was better in America.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

There’s a question historians will one day ask of this era: Who started the global nuclear arms race?

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

New research from the University of East Anglia suggests that a lost papal letter could change how historians understand the events of 1066 and the Norman Conquest.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

In fact, historians do not really know how it was pronounced, he said.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

It is, in part, a consideration of how historians could attempt to treat folkloric knowledge as equivalently valuable to documentary evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

These methods varied by nation, but historians note that, in general, Indigenous peoples fought to capture rather than kill their enemies.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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