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historian

[ hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr- ]

noun

  1. an expert in history; authority on history.
  2. a writer of history; chronicler.


historian

/ ³óɪˈ²õ³Ùɔ˰ùɪə²Ô /

noun

  1. a person who writes or studies history, esp one who is an authority on it
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of historian1

1400–50; late Middle English. See history, -an
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On this, historian Terrence Petty warns in a recent essay at the Forward:

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Back in the day, Sacramento authorities “escorted their criminals, morphine addicts and alcoholics†to the area, according to a historian quoted in the Sacramento Bee in 1984.

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Some public historians, left reeling from DOGE-spearheaded cuts to federal humanities and arts funding, view the order as an affront to the scholarship and nuance that undergirds the institutions' evidence-based tellings of American history.

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In an interview with historian Brian Harrison in the 1970s, Jessie recalled the so-called "pillar box outrages" were planned "with military precision."

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A key reason the operation was kept secret was to limit news from reaching Japan about the the balloon bombs that arrived in North America, said chief historian Matt Seelinger with the Army Historical Foundation.

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