history

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/14/2023
  

  Why Are We Arguing About History But Letting the Profession Die?

  by Daniel Bessner

  If nobody can expect to earn a decent living researching and writing history, then vast swaths of our past will be unknown to the future, and the history that is written will suit the whims of the rich hobbyists who can afford to do the work. 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  5/11/2020
  

  10 Podcasts for History Enthusiasts

  The hosts of these shows, including historians Nicole Hemmer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Walter Isaacson, and Erik Larson, use the past to help us understand our difficult present.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  5/4/2020
  

  W. Caleb McDaniel Wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in History

  The Pulitzer committee described McDaniel’s work as “A masterfully researched meditation on reparations based on the remarkable story of a 19th century woman who survived kidnapping and re-enslavement to sue her captor.”

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  4/9/2020
  

  Harvard Historian Bernard Bailyn Takes a Long Look Back in ‘Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades’

  To Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, history involves storytelling, and historians, like novelists, should aim to depict a coherent world. But the historian, of course, must obey constraints that the writer of fiction naturally ignores.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  For the love of history, let’s teach it better.

  by Laura Redford

  Let’s show students that studying the past is far more than memorizing. It can be thrilling, and can help them make more sense of the world in which they live.  

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  2/26/20
  

  History by Text and Thing

  by ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball

  For researchers, history is a thing we do. It is an activity, a handling of old books, a building seen from the vantage point of its past. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/23/20
  

  How “Historic” Are We? Going Off-Script in the Age of Trump

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days. Just about anything that happens at the White House, for example, is deemed historic. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/29/20
  

  Amanda Seligman: Growing Into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians

  by Amanda Seligman

  Teaching Career Diversity undid my ancient assumption that a PhD in the humanities should lead to a professorship. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/21/20
  

  The Way We Write History Has Changed

  by Alexis C. Madrigal

  A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/15/20
  

  AHA Enrollment Study Finds History Enrollments Hold Study as Department Efforts Intensify

  by Julia Brookins and Emily Swafford

  For the past several years, the AHA has conducted an optional annual enrollments survey of history departments.

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• SOURCE: KUT.org
  1/3/20
  

  C.J. Alvarez's 'Border Land, Border Water' Featured on Austin NPR Affiliate Station

  In his book “Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide,” author C.J. Alvarez explores 150 years of border-barrier history.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  1/5/20
  

  Why fewer US students want to learn about UK these days

  Once a bastion of English and History departments, the British studies discipline is waning as American students increasingly put career goals over their love of Charles Dickens, writes James Jeffrey.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/18/19
  

  The purpose of history in the Age of Trump

  by Daniel W. Drezner

  The president’s “strongest and most powerful protest” has a familiar ring to it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/18/19
  

  Why we all have the knowledge to decide whether Donald Trump should be impeached

  by Karin Wulf

  The crucial importance of keeping historical records public and easily accessible.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/17/19
  

  Professor Removed Then Reinstated Over Discussion on Race

  Louisiana Tech University briefly removed an instructor of history from teaching over class discussions on race and other topics before reinstating him this month.

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• SOURCE: BBC History Magazine
  12/10/19
  

  37 books for history lovers: 11 Historians Select Their Favorite Books of 2019

  In the Christmas 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now, 11 historians selected their favourite historical page-turners published in 2019 .

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• 1/26/20
  

  History & Law: GW History Professor Jennifer Wells Discusses How Her Study of Law Has Informed her Career in History

  by Mark Detlor

  "I’m more much analytical as a result of law and try to immediately make an assertion and back it up with evidence when I write; I think it’s a very effective way of writing but I’m not sure that I would have mastered it had I not gone to law school."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/21/19
  

  Don’t despair if your teen wants to major in history instead of science

  by Ian Milligan

  Choosing to become a history major is a future-friendly investment. A history degree teaches skills that are in short supply today: the ability to interpret context, and — crucially — where we’ve been, so as to better understand the world around us today and tomorrow.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  11/16/19
  

  In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism And Down With Enrollments

  by Brian Domitrovic

  As faculty in history departments delved anew into explorations of the economic system, the American case in particular, students took leave of instruction in history at an acute rate. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/15/19
  

  Teaching impeaching: History comes to life in school as teachers seize on this historic moment. Here’s what some are doing — and how.

  “All too often, we look at history as these singular events that happened long ago. We sometimes try to connect many of those events to the present, but we fail to realize sometimes that the events that are unfolding around us every day are historic, too."