historian

In a recent essay at The Conversation, historian and media critic W. Joseph Campbell offers this assessment:

Some 14 years ago, on Dec. 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient.

But in 1892, Charles Lummis — Los Angeles’ pioneering historian, ethnographer, and founder of the Southwest Museum — was writing furiously in The Times about the disgrace of Indian schools.

Beatles scholars and cultural historians have long remarked upon how much of a lift the band gave to an America in mourning.

On returning to Senegal in 1944 many protested about their pay, historians say, which led to a brutal response.