Historian is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus, released on March 2, 2018, through Matador Records.

[4][5] She described the album as a song cycle about "living through loss and the inevitable darkness of life, and doing so hopefully and joyfully.

"[4] Of the title of the album, Dacus explained, "It's me having this impulse to document and capture and create a history of my life and the people that I know ... Because as I'm making this history and capturing these things that I hold dear, those things won't stay.

[10] Marcy Donelson of AllMusic said of the release: "Ultimately, the forte passages don't encroach on the songwriting, as they underline emotion, but they do, at times, step on Dacus' voice, when she's clouded by high-volume accompaniment or even vocal processing.

Thankfully, those moments are brief and rare, allowing her lyrics and expressive sense of melody to shine.