The inscription from Lugdunum is an interesting comparison with the version of the historian Tacitus in his Annals, which gives an account of the same speech.
The articles that appear on these websites are contemporary versions of what historian Richard Hofstadter called, in a famous 1964 essay, the "paranoid style" of American politics practiced by extreme conservatives.
Although that phrase was removed from the written version of the speech, some historians point to the remarks as having opened the door to increasingly overt expressions of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism by Poles within and outside the ruling party.
"Those who today exclude this fundamental element from Zionism are left with a chauvinist and non-Zionist version of Jewish nationalism," writes the historian of Zionism Dimitry Shumsky.
"We were saying, 'interesting tale about tapes.' " But David Greenberg, a Rutgers historian and the author of "Nixon's Shadow," argued that the tale did not involve a significant dispute and was more like the Watergate version of global warming, with most historians long ago coming to a consensus and only a few outliers arguing against it.
Based on the 1974 nonfiction book of the same name by the oral historian Studs Terkel, this version of "Working," which had a run last year at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago, includes two new songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda ("In the Heights").
According to the historian Matías Díaz Padrón, a version of the painting generally considered to be a copy made by Velázquez's son-in-law was in fact a draft, painted by Velázquez himself before he started working on his larger-scale masterwork.
The literary historians' war-focussed version of Green has migrated to the public realm.
"In literary circles a newly discovered first draft of a famous story or novel can be as significant as an early version of the Gettysburg Address to American historians," said Sally Wolff-King, the author of two books on Faulkner.
