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: Washington Post
  7/14/19
  

  A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.

  They have tenure. She does not.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  Her Book in Limbo, Naomi Wolf Fights Back

  After her American publisher delayed her new book, “Outrages,” over accuracy concerns, she is responding with a strategy mixing scholarly peer review and damage control.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/7/19
  

  Louie Howland, editor and award-winning maritime historian, dies at 81

  Mr. Howland was 81 when he died at home on June 21 of lung cancer, and though he sold textbooks early on, he later charted a memorable path as an editor and antiquarian bookseller in Boston’s literary world.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  7/3/2019
  

  ‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, a Scholarly Association Offers a Map

  The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/8/2019
  

  Smithsonian interested in obtaining migrant children's drawings depicting their time in US custody

  "The museum has a long commitment to telling the complex and complicated history of the United States and to documenting that history as it unfolds," according to a statement from the museum

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/8/2019
  

  Archaeologist Sarah Parcak Thinks We Need to Learn From the Fall of Egypt’s Old Kingdom

  In a new book, the archaeologist makes the case that ancient history illuminates solutions to modern problems.

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• SOURCE: US News
  7/7/2019
  

  How Southern Mississippi Professor Leila Hamdan Led Her Team to Explore 2 Historic Shipwrecks

  The University of Southern Mississippi and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) worked together to discover and characterize two unexplored shipwrecks in the Gulf and study marine life on and around the wrecks.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  7/8/2019
  

  Alexandra Witze Reviews Seven Books that Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

  Alexandra Witze savours seven books commemorating the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/4/2019
  

  NPR's Cokie Roberts and Rachel Martin Answer Listener Questions About Women And American Independence

  Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role women played in America's fight for independence from Great Britain.

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• SOURCE: US News
  7/7/2019
  

  Kentucky Historians Explore the Role of Slaves in Kentucky's Bourbon Legacy

  In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/27/2019
  

  Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: New Collection Covers Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

  by Adriana Chira

  With chapters covering a broad geographic expanse (including the North and South Atlantic), the volume shows how Afro-descendants across the Western Hemisphere engaged with new liberal ideologies of inclusion while countering elite efforts to restrict the political openings created by these ideologies.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/1/2019
  

  Kinitra D. Brooks' and Kameelah L. Martin's New Book, The Lemonade Reader, Explores Beyoncé’s Visual Album

  by J. T. Roane

  The Lemonade Reader gathers a newer generation of Black feminist scholars to engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor around the Lemonade phenomena.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/30/2019
  

  Greg Weiner's New Book ‘Old Whigs’ Review: Rejecting the Extremes

  Today’s overheated politics make prudent statesmanship seem hopelessly distant, but our future may depend on it—yet again.

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• SOURCE: KUOW
  6/28/2019
  

  Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention

  When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/30/2019
  

  15 Unsung Moments From American History That Historians Say You Should Know About

  While the nearly 250 years since 1776 have been chock full of major milestones, not every moment that shaped the country gets the credit it deserves.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/28/19
  

  Medieval History Goes to War With Itself

  While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/1/19
  

  Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction

  He’s just published a book called “Working.” It’s a gift, a collection of interviews and essays that talk about the craft of what he does.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  6/26/19
  

  James Polchin's "Indecent Advances" Reviewed: The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime

  by Caleb Crain

  Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law.

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• SOURCE: Intelligencer
  6/30/2019
  

  Two MLK Scholars Discuss Explosive, Disputed FBI Files on the Civil-Rights Icon

  Professor Michael Honey, who teaches civil-rights history at the University of Washington Tacoma, took strong issue with historian and former University of Pittsburgh professor David Garrow’s framing of the newly discovered file.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark Podcast
  6/25/19
  

  Kevin Kruse Discuses Revisionist History on the Bulwark Podcast

  Princeton professor and famed #Twitterstorian Kevin M. Kruse discuss revisionist history on the right and many more issues in politics.