as in chroniclers
a student or writer of history
a new book by America's best-known annalist of the Civil War
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For decades, Spielberg has been one of our foremost chroniclers of America’s fascination with aliens, touching on the topic in films like 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1981’s ET.
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History’s chroniclers are watching.
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Lepore is one of the country’s most respected historians, and her most ambitious undertaking is this book that tells the history of the country from 1492 to the present.
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The current wave looks different to the historians who study it, though, because the driver isn’t novelty.
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“Annalists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annalists. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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