Historians in the News

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  Historians Argue That The History Major Won’t Go the Way of the Dodo

  Featuring Philip Balson, Olivia Daniels, Ethan Ehrenhaft, Max Minshull, and Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/15/19
  

  Tenure, Twitter and Taking Her Board to Task

  Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/14/19
  

  The new Statue of Liberty Museum is a quiet paean to America’s embrace of immigrants—but what is there to celebrate?

  The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/15/19
  

  McCullough’s new book on pioneers’ history draws criticism

  With his latest book, “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” McCullough is seeing some of the sharpest criticism of his career.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  What to Do With Richmond’s Confederate Statues

  Richmond’s Monument Avenue is lined with Confederate statues, but an exhibition filled with proposals to replace them struggles to find a road forward.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/12/19
  

  Alabama historical group elects first black president

  The Alabama Historical Association has elected Wetumpka native Franzine Taylor as president for the upcoming year.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/8/19
  

  Sarah Knott Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages

  Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 5/14/19
  

  New Books Showcase Female Spies and Their Secrets

  An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.

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• SOURCE: Space.com
  5/14/19
  

  'Apollo's Legacy': Space Historian Talks Lunar Science, Politics — and a Return to the Moon

  An interview with Roger Launius. 

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  4/13/19
  

  Making History More Relevant, One Case At A Time

  The case study method was popularized at Harvard Business School to help graduate business students understand how captains of industry made critical decisions.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/13/19
  

  How the Presidential Memoir Evolved

  by Jill Lepore

  Jill Lepore on the "Confessions of a Presidential Candidate."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Sarah Lewis' grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard.

  Lewis teaches art history and African American studies at Harvard.

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  5/2/19
  

  Knute Berger: Why History is Vital to Democracy

  Berger went on the Keeping Democracy Alive podcast to discuss. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Digital Way to Follow the Freedom Riders’ Journey Against Segregation During the Civil Rights Era

  The Civil Rights activists faced violence in multiple cities in their fight for equality.

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• SOURCE: G&LR
  4/27/19
  

  Historian Marc Stein On The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History

  by Marc Stein

  Why did the Stonewall Riots occur when and where they did? 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/29/19
  

  Should These Clothes Be Saved?

  Thousands of articles of everyday women’s clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie?

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• SOURCE: The Verge
  5/4/19
  

  Read a comic about the history of biological warfare from the author of World War Z

  Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History was commissioned by the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/19
  

  John Lukacs, iconoclastic scholar of history, dies at 95

  John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian and iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a best-selling tribute to Winston Churchill and produced a substantial and often despairing body of writings on the politics and culture of Europe and the United States.

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• SOURCE: College Fix
  5/6/19
  

  Student group demands firing of Seton Hall professor for ‘controversial’ comments

  Hoffer had called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “hate group,” and claimed that Black Lives Matter and radical Muslim terrorists are a bigger threat than the KKK and Neo-Nazis.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/1/19
  

  Saidiya Hartman Unravels the Archive

  In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman recovers the forgotten “sexual modernists” of 20th century black life.