historiography

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• 10/27/2019
  

  What the Most Influential Text on Cannibalism Can Teach Us About Studying History

  by Tim Seiter

  From the Man-Eating Myth’s saga, we learn that if we focus too heavily on a single perspective while ignoring others, dangerously flawed history is bound to be produced.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  Accessed 6/25/19
  

  The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Postmodernism

  Moira Weigel, Justin E.H. Smith, Mark Greif, Ethan Kleinberg, Marjorie Perloff, Jessica Burstein, Seo-Young Chu, David Bromwich, Anna Kornbluh, and Steven Weinberg reflect on the past, present, and future of postmodernism. 

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• 2/16/19
  

  Do We Make Writing on Jefferson Harder than It Really Is?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous.

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• 12-5-15
  

  Herodotus Lives!

  by Jeremy D. Popkin

  A bracing defense of historiography and why it’s relevant.

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• 1-11-15
  

  What’s Wrong with the Way We Think About Presidents: An Interview with Julian E. Zelizer

  by Scott Porch

  Our inflated idea of presidential power, what’s happening with the book industry, and other topics.

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• 12-16-13
  

  The Black Hole of Apartheid History

  by Jamie Miller

  Why historians should study the regime, not just its opponents.

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• SOURCE: Imperial & Global Forum
  11-26-13
  

  Diminishing Returns of the Global Turn

  by David A. Bell

  Global history has met the law of diminishing returns in its insights.

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• 11-25-13
  

  Documenting Historians' Revolutionary Demographic Change

  by Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber

  In 1962, the president of the American Historical Association warned about young historians of "lower middle-class or foreign origins." How times have (thankfully) changed.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10-25-13
  

  This Is What Happens When Historians Overuse the Idea of the Network

  by David A. Bell

  Historians have been applying the network -- the controlling metaphor of the digital age -- to everything, even the distant past. Maybe that's not such a great idea.

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• SOURCE: Times Higher Education
  9-19-13
  

  British historian says we should ‘look beyond Europe and America’

  Lecturer says profession should widen its global outlook.

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• 9-14-13
  

  Review of James Goodman's "But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac"

  by Jim Cullen

  An ambitious work of cultural history that resonates far beyond its biblical subject

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• In Defense of the Late, Great Howard Zinn

  by Norman Markowitz

  Howard Zinn will be read for decades; his critics, not so much.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  8-7-13
  

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Towards a Radical New Theory of Anglo-American Slavery, and Vindication of Free Markets

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph. He has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels.With luck it will help to vindicate the fathers of liberal government and the free market in the 17th and 18th Centuries, falsely accused until now of abetting - or promoting - the great crime of race-based African slavery.For academic orthodoxy holds that John Locke and the great Whig thinkers of the Glorious Revolution (1688) helped to design and foster the economic system of hereditary slavery that shaped Atlantic capitalism for a century and a half.From that it is but a step to dismiss the moral claims of liberalism as so much humbug, to write off all the talk of justice, natural rights, inviolable contracts and government by consent as the self-interested catechism of oppressors. As Samuel Johnson said acidly: "How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"

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• Towards a New History of the Civil Rights Movement

  by Gary May

  LBJ signs the Voting Rights Act while Martin Luther King, Jr. looks on.Hilary Rodham Clinton awoke on the morning of January 3, 2008, exhausted and depressed. The New York Senator had started her quest for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination believing in its inevitability, only to be surprisingly blindsided by Barack Obama, a forty-six year old first term Senator. Only a few hours earlier, Obama had crushed Clinton in the Iowa caucus and now her advisors feared defeat in the upcoming New Hampshire primary. She was stunned while her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was furious. “[Obama’s] a phony,” Clinton insisted, “…he has no experience…What has he really done?”

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  2-24-13
  

  Jim Cullen: Review of James M. Banner Jr.'s "Being a Historian: An Introduction to the Professional World of History" (Cambridge, 2012)

  Jim Cullen, who teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, is a book review editor at HNN. His new book, Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions, was published last month by Oxford University Press. Cullen blogs at American History Now.

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• What are the 10 Most Important Documents in American History?

  Announcing the winners in the reader poll "What are the 10 Most Important Documents in American History?" Nearly 800 readers voted -- the most important document in American history is the Marshall Plan!*Note: The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights were specifically EXCLUDED from the poll, since they'd be in the top three practically by default. We wanted to give other documents a chance!