historian

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• SOURCE: Yahoo Finance
  4/17/2020
  

  Cadence13 and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Jon Meacham Partner to Produce Documentary Podcast Series for These Times

  On Cadence13-directed and produced five-episode podcast docuseries "Hope, Through History," the New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned historian Jon Meacham explores five pivotal moments of crisis in American history and how they shaped the nation.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  4/20/2020
  

  Policing The Automobile: “Private” Transit In “Public” Spaces?

  by Sarah A. Seo

  "As much as courts throughout the twentieth century sought to differentiate cars from houses, the automobile straddled the public/private divide in American life." argues professor Sarah A. Seo.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  4/15/2020
  

  Deportation Nation

  Historian Adam Goodman discusses his new book entitled, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants."

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• SOURCE: CapRadio
  4/19/2020
  

  How The Coronavirus Could Shape Fashion Choices

  Have you been wearing sweatpants everyday? Listen to fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell discuss how the coronavirus may impact people's style choices. 

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• SOURCE: Vanderbilt News
  4/8/2020
  

  Professor Joel Harrington Wins Prestigious Arts and Letters Award in Literature

  Harrington is a Vanderbilt University professor and a European historian.

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• SOURCE: Governing
  4/13/2020
  

  A Sharp Shock, But Not a Depression: A Historian's View

  “I’m cautiously optimistic that the economic effects will be severe but not nearly as long-lasting as the Great Depression,” says David Kennedy, a professor of history at Stanford University. “Both the depth and duration are not likely to look like the Great Depression.”

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• SOURCE: Vox
  4/9/2020
  

  Can a Pandemic Remake Society? A Historian Explains.

  It’s happened before. Here’s what it would take to happen again.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/5/2020
  

  Why We Keep Getting the Lessons of the Spanish Flu Wrong

  by Kevin Peraino

  History matters in a crisis like this, but not the way most people use it.

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• SOURCE: PBS
  4/5/2020
  

  Will The Coronavirus Change How Skeptics Think About Science?

  Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and author of “Why Trust Science?” explores whether or not the world's lack of preparation for the coronavirus outbreak has a silver lining.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  4/6/2020
  

  'America First' and the Coronavirus

  The pandemic makes a mockery of Trump’s core principle.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/5/2020
  

  A Historian Looks Ahead At A Transformed Post-Pandemic World

  It's changing the way we work, we live, we communicate, what we expect from our governments. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Yuval Noah Harari about what happens once COVID-19 is beaten.

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• SOURCE: Observer
  4/5/2020
  

  An Art History Professor’s Tips for Taking Your Kids on a World Tour—From Home

  Many of the world's greatest landmarks and artworks are just a click away.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  4/4/2020
  

  Will Coronavirus Change How We Think About Climate Change?

  Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes believes the coronavirus may be a 'dress rehearsal' for the climate catastrophe looming on the horizon – and suggests why people want to deny both threats.

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• SOURCE: Art News
  4/2/2020
  

  David C. Driskell, Tireless Advocate for Black Art History, Is Dead at 88

  Driskell's work, including the famous exhibition "Two Centuries of Black American Art," illustrated the importance of black artists in American art history.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/29/2020
  

  Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End

  by William J. Astore

  Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore makes it so vividly clear, recalling a prophesy of his own dad, that if demobilization remains our position in the tough times to come, we're going to be in deep, deep trouble.

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• SOURCE: Content Magazine
  3/31/2020
  

  The Trouble with Triscuits

  by Charles Louis Richter

  Where did the name of this popular snack come from? An exercise in historical reasoning.

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• SOURCE: Market Watch
  4/1/2020
  

  I’m A Historian Who Has Studied the Black Death. During My Coronavirus Quarantine, I Thought, ‘Will People Fear Us?’

  by Alizah Holstein

  ‘As an early COVID-19 patient in my area, I have seen firsthand the power of a community poised to help,’ writes historian Alizah Holstein.

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  3/30/2020
  

  Writing an Intellectual History of the President’s Cabinet

  by Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  Historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky discusses the methodology behind her latest book on George Washington's cabinet.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  3/28/2020
  

  What Both the Left and the Right Get Wrong About the Coronavirus Economic Crisis

  Financial historian Adam Tooze on the lessons policymakers need to learn, and fast.

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• SOURCE: WFAE
  3/27/2020
  

  Darius Swann Changed Charlotte's School System, Local Historian Remembers

  Local historian Pamela Grundy discusses the Rev. Dr. Darius Swann who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education. He died on March 8, at the age of 95.