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: Black Perspectives
  12/12/19
  

  Black Scholars Respond to Dr. Lorgia García Peña Tenure Denial at Harvard

  The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stood in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently denied tenure at Harvard University. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/11/19
  

  Historians Kirsten Weld and Erik Baker Interviewed About Harvard Graduate Worker Strike in Chronicle of Higher Education

  Graduate workers at Harvard are striking. Here’s what they want, and how they plan to get it.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  12/9/19
  

  Kate Shaw: Andrew Johnson Was Impeached for Being a Racist Demagogue

  An interview with Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  

  Bullets That Killed John F. Kennedy Immortalized as Digital Replicas by Smithsonian

  The originals remain at the National Archives, but new 3-D scans showcase the ballistics in vivid detail  

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• SOURCE: BBC History Magazine
  12/10/19
  

  37 books for history lovers: 11 Historians Select Their Favorite Books of 2019

  In the Christmas 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now, 11 historians selected their favourite historical page-turners published in 2019 .

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 12/10/19
  

  Annette Gordon-Reed Reviews Alan Taylor's Book Thomas Jefferson's Education for The Atlantic

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  "The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  The genealogy boom has hit a roadblock. The Trump administration plans huge fee hikes for immigration records.

  The move has outraged professional and amateur genealogists, who argue that the increase would effectively put valuable immigration information out of reach for many.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  12/9/19
  

  Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard's decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor

  García Peña's case has become a rallying cry for Harvard students and alumni who have been pushing the university to establish an ethnic studies department for nearly 50 years.

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• SOURCE: Roger Williams University News
  

  Tweeting from the Past: History Course Uses Social Media to Bring Research to Life

  Associate Professor of History Autumn Quezada-Grant brings history into the modern age with a course assignment to create social media accounts for famous figures.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/9/19
  

  An Art History Mystery with No Shortage of Sleuths

  Is a bronze statue discovered in France a 16th century Renaissance masterpiece or a (much less valuable) 17th century copy? Readers shared their theories, opinions and expertise.  

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/9/19
  

  Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups

  At one time, there were 10 million Yahoo Groups with more than 100 million users - from neighborhood organizations to amateur astronomers. On Saturday, the archives disappeared.

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• SOURCE: Cornell Chronicle
  12/5/19
  

  Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97

  Tierney was a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Medieval Academy of America.

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• SOURCE: Virginia Mercury
  12/6/19
  

  ‘We’re telling history now’: New Lost Cause exhibit opens at Richmond museum

  Includes a qutoe from Melvin Patrick Ely, a College of William & Mary history professor.

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• SOURCE: The Diplomat
  12/2/19
  

  China Releases History Professor, But Travel Concerns Persist

  A recent detention has implications for China-Japan relations.

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• SOURCE: World Socialist Web Site
  11/28/19
  

  Gordon Wood Interviewed on the New York Times’ 1619 Project

  “When the Declaration says that all men are created equal, that is no myth”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/3/19
  

  Books by Garret Martin, Balazs Martonffy, Ronald Suny, and Kelly McFarland Featured in Article on NATO at 50

  by Jeff Inglis

  At 70, is NATO still important? 5 essential reads.

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• SOURCE: Fast Company
  12/3/19
  

  The secret history of women in America, told through their belongings

  "Like the second wave feminists who popularized the expression, we believe the personal is political,” writes Michelle Delaney.

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• SOURCE: Irish Times
  12/5/19
  

  Irish Archive Recreates Documents Lost in in 1922 fire

  Four Courts fire at start of Civil War destroyed centuries of historic documents.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  Accessed 12/5/19
  

  Foreign Affairs Reviews James Banner's Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today

  Banner describes the book as an exercise of “historians’ civic office.”

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  11/22/2019
  

  The Ten Best History Books of 2019

  by Angela Serratore

  Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today.