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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Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
25 June 2026
The current wave looks different to the historians who study it, though, because the driver isn’t novelty.
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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