as in chronicler
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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The council voted 5-4 against giving the building a historical designation which would have preserved it, while local architectural historians argued the building could have been used for a hospital, grocery store, school or data center.
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Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Moore became the Chiefs’ historian in 2010 after serving as the team’s director of media and public relations since 1989.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
In the Lumière brothers’ short Workers Leaving the Factory (1895), considered by many historians to be the first cinematographic film recording, the onscreen laborers are actually leaving their jobs at the Lumières’ factory, where photographic plates were produced and developed.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE, a daily news publication and online community focused on where space exploration intersects with pop culture.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2025
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Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Moore became the Chiefs’ historian in 2010 after serving as the team’s director of media and public relations since 1989.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
In the Lumière brothers’ short Workers Leaving the Factory (1895), considered by many historians to be the first cinematographic film recording, the onscreen laborers are actually leaving their jobs at the Lumières’ factory, where photographic plates were produced and developed.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE, a daily news publication and online community focused on where space exploration intersects with pop culture.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for historian
chronicler
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While Spanish chroniclers numbered the population around the time of European contact to have been 1 million, anthropologists have disputed this, arguing instead for the population to have been 6–12 million.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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As an alum of The Washington Post’s crackerjack sports desk of decades past, she is best known as an ace author, whose trilogy of biographies—of Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth—ensure her place in the first division of the baseball chroniclers.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Historian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/historian. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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