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: Indiana Gazette
  10/15/19
  

  Historians Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney bring history to life in podcast

  After inviting listeners to step into a historical world on each episode, Horrocks and Mahoney launch into debates about the problematic aspects of American Girl, draw links to pop culture and talk about the lessons that the characters learn.

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  10/15/19
  

  Modern art historian, US museum director and clergyman EA Carmean, Jr has died, age 74

  He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

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• SOURCE: BU Today
  10/15/19
  

  Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry

  Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  10/17/19
  

  Historian Brad Simpson Says He's Never Read a Letter As Unhinged As Trump's To Erdogan

  Among those on Twitter voicing their bemusement, was U.S. foreign relations expert Brad Simpson, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/15/19
  

  Academic Twitter's Gender Imbalance

  Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true.

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• SOURCE: The Crimson
  10/11/19
  

  Serhii Plokhii on Ukraine’s Political Frontiers

  Professor Serhii Plokhii, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard, discussed Ukranian history, the Trump-Ukraine scandal, and the roles that both Russia and the United States have played in shaping the country’s politics.

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• ‘Return to the Reich’ Review: Refugee Redux

  The true story of a Jewish boy from Freiburg who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/14/19
  

  Black Perspectives Announces Online Forum Honoring the Life and Work of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

  by AAIHS Editors

  During the week of the online forum, Black Perspectives will publish new blog posts every day at 5:30AM EST.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/12/19
  

  It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’

  Historians Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Swanson are writing a new account of the notorious 1859 auction of 429 slaves and searching for descendants.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/12/19
  

  Historians Jon Meacham, Mark Summers, Keri Leigh Merritt, Michael Ross, Brenda Wineapple, and Benjamin Railton Featured in Article on Andrew Johnson and Impeachment

  As the impeachment inquiry of Trump unfolds, Johnson, never among America’s most famous presidents, though widely considered one of the worst, is attracting renewed attention.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/10/19
  

  Labor Historian Staughton Lynd's Book Is Embraced by Google Workers and Uber Drivers

  A book based on ideas associated with a labor group from the early 20th century has provided a blueprint for organizing without a formal union.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  10/7/19
  

  Rick Perry recommended former ambassador, historian Daniel Yergin for Ukraine reforms-U.S. Energy Dept

  Perry recommended Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration talk with Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize winning energy historian.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/4/19
  

  Ginsburg predicts historians will call this political era an 'aberration'

  Ginsburg offered her thoughts Thursday on how historians will view this period of American history.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  10/7/19
  

  American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners

  Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  October 4, 2019
  

  A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths Image

  by Emily Gould

  Thomas J. Campanella, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, traces the borough’s vibrant past and comments on the hipster heyday happening there now.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  October 2, 2019
  

  History Museum Explores Germans’ View of Britain

  by The Associated Press

  As Brexit looms, one of Germany’s main history museums is examining Germans’ views of the British, complete with a countdown clock that may be reset if Britain’s departure from the European Union is delayed.

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• SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
  9/6/19
  

  Review of “The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists”

  by Christine Talbot

  “Lisa Pace Vetter’s book, The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists, examines the political theories of seven women who were central figures in American political thought, despite their exclusion from the contemporary canon."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/07/2019
  

  Nancy Pelosi Retweets Op Ed By Historian Jordan E. Taylor

  by Jordan E. Taylor

  The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  10/7/19
  

  “We Feel Very Betrayed”: Community Protests Replacement for J. Marion Sims Monument

  New York City published an open call to replace a contested monument for Sims, who conducted brutal experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women without using anesthesia.