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: Greek Reporter
  2-25-15
  

  German Historian: Rich Greeks Evade Taxes Since 1830

  Heinz Richter says “The political culture in Greece differs from the rest of Western Europe because it is based on clientelism."

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• SOURCE: Cambridge News
  2-26-15
  

  UK teaching "invented" history as EU propaganda, says Cambridge professor

  David Abulafia, a professor of Mediterranean history, says schools are “papering over” past disunity on the continent to further integration under the European Union.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2-25-15
  

  The move accelerates to show that black people have a history

  by Martha S. Jones

  Wikipedia Foundation has partnered with institutions such as Washington's Howard University to ensure that black people have a history, Wikipedia style.

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• SOURCE: Columbia Daily Spectator
  2-25-15
  

  Eric Foner says he insisted on his MOOC on the Civil War being free

  He says he’s not getting a penny for it.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  2-25-15
  

  Ellen Schrecker backs “National Adjunct Walkout Day” as a brilliant tactic

  The labor historian says one thing adjuncts can do to advance their cause is to educate "the public and especially the students about the reality of who is teaching them."

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• SOURCE: Press Release
  2-24-15
  

  Society for Military History 2015 Awards

  Find out who's won the top prizes and awards in military history.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  2-23-15
  

  Classicists Crunch Data to Test Hypotheses About Greece

  Data show that ancient Greece was a wealthy society, largely as a result 
of its socially diverse political institutions, says Stanford’s Josiah Ober.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-19-15
  

  Journalist/historian writes a novel about gay history, but she’s straight

  She wonders why everybody assumes she’s gay.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  2-17-15
  

  Penn historian finishes work on slavery he started researching 40 years ago

  Historian Richard Dunn’s study of plantations in Jamaica and Virginia has recently been published.

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• SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor
  2-19-15
  

  AP History survives funding cut in Oklahoma. Here's why.

  Responding to uproar, a conservative Oklahoma lawmaker backs off bill to curb funding for AP history that he says downplays American 'exceptionalism.' The bill 'was very poorly worded,' he said.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home (blog)
  2-19-15
  

  Richard Wightman Fox tells why he wrote about Lincoln’s death (interview)

  In an interview with John Fea, Fox says he was fascinated with the fact that Lincoln seemed uninterested in Jesus.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-20-15
  

  David Starkey is once again in the middle of controversy

  He’s been accused of being a bigot. Have his critics gone too far?

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home (blog)
  2-17-15
  

  Social media storm over claims made by Gordon Wood

  by John Fea

  In an article in the conservative Weekly Standard he lionized Bernard Bailyn.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-18-15
  

  Harry Pfanz, historian who wrote Gettysburg trilogy, dies at 93

  After retiring from the park service in 1981, Dr. Pfanz spent the next 20 years researching and writing his Gettysburg trilogy: “Gettysburg: The Second Day” (1987), which was the most critically praised book in the trilogy.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
  2-18-15
  

  This is how Harvard’s remembering World War I on its 100th anniversary

  “World War I is seen to have introduced a rupture in the history of war.”

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• SOURCE: JSTOR
  2-12-15
  

  Carter G. Woodson, The Father of Black History Month

  Its origins date back to 1926, when a historian named Carter G. Woodson spearheaded “Negro History Week.”

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2-18-15
  

  "The Actual Truth Is, I Was a Racist"

  A conversation with President Thomas Jefferson and the scholar and podcaster who channels him, Clay Jenkinson.

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• SOURCE: SCVTV
  2-17-15
  

  Prof Marks 50 Years of Teaching History at CSUN

  James Sefton teaches American military and naval history, World War II, constitutional history, and his specialty, Civil War and Reconstruction.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-17-15
  

  Head of the N-Y Historical Society says we need an “American” American History

  by Louise Mirrer

  Louise Mirrer is all in favor of African-American history, LGBT history, etc., but says we need a unified story.

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• SOURCE: Smashing Interviews Magazine
  2-12-15
  

  Yuval Noah Harari interviewed about his history of Sapiens (that’s us and others in the Homo genus)

  "I remember asking both my parents and my teachers at school continuously about where we came from and what was the meaning of all this."