Historian [noun]

Definition of Historian:

student of history

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Readers who are not deep historians are in for many layers of surprise inside “Eleanor,” the first being Roosevelt’s early life, and the racism she exhibited as a young woman.

The historian in me, I never want to lose the appreciation for those who threw for 120 yards and won a game.

Prokopios was the court historian of the Byzantine Empire’s most well-known rulers, Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora.

Diane Ravitch is a former assistant secretary of education and historian.

According to Gunter Krebs, a spaceflight historian and physicist, at the time of the heist, Luna 3 was likely spinning around the Earth at a distance of 310,000 miles, being gradually drawn into the Earth’s atmosphere.

On Twitter, people hypothesized about how historians will remember 2020 — perhaps specializing in particular days of November, as one joke goes.

A historian examines how dictatorships rise and how to fight them.

The following 20 years took some of the air out of the assumption of steady progress, but when future historians assess the 21st century, the year 2020 is likely to serve as the point at which the optimism bubble burst.

Four centuries from now the historians of science would be examining terabytes of Facebook and Twitter records to try to understand whether or not anyone actually read this monumental work.

Many historians would disagree, but I think accident and contingency play quite a role in history.