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historians

noun

plural of historian

as in chroniclers

a student or writer of history historians are still trying to sort out fact from fiction in the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks

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Recent Examples of historians The tariffs are notorious among economists and historians for shutting down world commerce and making the Great Depression worse. — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026 For many cinephiles, film historians, and critics, Italian cinema is modern cinema. — Erik Morse, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026 Art historians have been less reticent to assign meaning to the zoological Surreal. — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Her notoriety and the public’s fascination with the case, some historians have argued, led to Borden’s acquittal. — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026 The campground has been used to host community camp meetings for decades, historians say. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 24 Aug. 2026 The provision is part of the Smoot-Hawley tariff law, widely blamed by economists and historians for worsening the Great Depression by restricting global trade. — Paul Wiseman, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2026 The proposal to paint the building has alarmed preservationists, architects, historians and others who argue that granite is not meant to be painted and that paint would trap moisture and degrade the stone. — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 Modern historians overwhelmingly agree that immigration profoundly shaped Rome’s demographics and history, yet some have argued that there was little sense of immigrant community at Rome. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 17 Aug. 2026

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chroniclers

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Jeff Nichols is not only one of cinema’s foremost chroniclers of the American South, but is doing his damnedest to revitalize the film scene in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
Colonial chroniclers recorded epidemics, but their descriptions cannot always identify the responsible pathogen or follow its spread through Indigenous communities.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 30 July 2026

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