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: Perspectives on History
  2/12/20
  

  AHA Publishes 2020 Jobs Report

  by Dylan Ruediger

  New History PhDs Awarded Continue to Decline as Academic Job Market Remains Flat

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/10/20
  

  Yuval Noah Harari's History of Everyone, Ever

  His blockbuster “Sapiens” predicted the possible end of humankind. Now what?

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now
  Accessed 2/13/20
  

  Historian Manisha Sinha Discussed Trump's Acquittal on 2 Episodes of Democracy Now

  After a nearly 13-hour marathon session, the U.S. Senate approved by a party-line vote the rules for the impeachment trial of President Trump. This marks just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history.

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• SOURCE: The Gazette
  2/12/20
  

  Longtime University of Iowa Jeff Cox, 72, championed candidates and his kids

  In addition to his longtime position as tenured professor of British social, imperial and religious history at the University of Iowa — where he also served in leadership positions including chair of the History Department and president of the Faculty Senate — Cox was widely involved in the community.

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• SOURCE: Studies in Intelligence
  2/10/10
  

  "No Boy Scout": William Rust Publishes Article on CIA Operations Officer Lucien Conein

  by William J. Rust

  “No Boy Scout: CIA Operations Officer Lucien Conein” tells the story of a polarizing French-American paramilitary specialist who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and in its postwar successor agencies.

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• SOURCE: American Ancestors
  2/10/10
  

  New England Historic Genealogical Society Receives Collection of Roosevelt Family Papers from the Theodore Roosevelt Association of Oyster Bay, New York

  The new Roosevelt family materials will comprise part of the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections at American Ancestors.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/20
  

  Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History

  A review of SEDUCTION: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present by Clement Knox.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  2/6/20
  

  Harvard historian Jill Lepore on what “Why We’re Polarized” gets wrong

  by Ezra Klein

  Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on The Ezra Klein Show. But in this episode of the show, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions. Hard ones.

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• SOURCE: PBS Newshour
  2/6/20
  

  3 historians on American political divisiveness — and how to heal it

  Judy Woodruff sits down with the University of New Hampshire’s Ellen Fitzpatrick, presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Carolyn Lukensmeyer of the National Institute for Civil Discourse to discuss.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/4/20
  

  Black Perspectives Hosts Online Forum on HBO’s Watchmen This Week

  by Ahmad Greene-Hayes

  The forum will offer pieces from scholars in African American religious studies who think critically about the show and its engagement with politics, performance, and African American religions in the early twentieth-century South, specifically in Tulsa, after the 1921 massacre.

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• SOURCE: Renegade South
  2/30/20
  

  Victoria Bynum Writes Response to Alex Lichtenstein's Article on the 1619 Project

  by Victoria Bynum

  Part of the ongoing historical debate. 

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• SOURCE: Vogue
  2/7/20
  

  Remembering Alice Mayhew, a True “Editor of Genius”

  Alice Mayhew edited for Bob Woodward, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Walter Isaacson, among others.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  2/6/20
  

  Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South

  by Cara Delay

  The policing of midwives’ bags and what was in them was central to the mission that would ultimately destroy black women’s traditional health networks. 

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog
  2/9/20
  

  Richard Cándida Smith Reviews *Duress: Imperial Durabilities In Our Times*

  by Richard Cándida Smith

  A review of Ann Laura Stoler's Duress: Imperial Durabilities In Our Times.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  2/8/20
  

  Pitt Historian Mari Webel: Past outbreaks provide lessons for figuring out new coronavirus

  “We don’t know a lot about [coronavirus] right now,” said Ms. Webel, who has a PhD in history and teaches classes on the history of health. “But this is why it’s so important to think about what specific pathogen is causing the problem."

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• SOURCE: Michigan Live
  2/8/20
  

  University of Michigan plans teach-in, including history of climate activism, ahead of 50th Earth Day anniversary

  For Matt Lasseter, professor of history at UM, putting Earth Day and its ties to Michigan into historical context is key.

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• SOURCE: Bozeman Daily Chronicle
  2/7/20
  

  Chernobyl disaster worse than we were told, historian Kate Brown says

  Chernobyl should be seen, not as a one-time accident, Brown argued, but as part of a larger, still ongoing story of global nuclear contamination and Russian, American and the international officials hiding the truth.

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• SOURCE: NowThis
  2/7/20
  

  Historian Carol Anderson On Voter Suppression

  “This kind of silent, quiet bureaucratic violence, where policies are wiping out the voting rights of millions of Americans, that's the piece that is absolutely stunning for my students,” she explained.

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• SOURCE: Toward Freedom
  2/6/20
  

  A Victory for the Immigrants’ Rights Working Group of Historians for Peace and Democracy

  by Margaret Power and Alexander Aviña

  On January 5, 2020, the Business Meeting of the American Historical Association passed a resolution condemning affiliations between ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and higher education.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Princetonian
  2/6/20
  

  The Daily Princetonian Publishes Article Summarizing Ongoing 1619 Project Debate

  A summary of what different historians have said and how others have responded.