Interviews with Historians
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- Christopher Andrew
- Antony Beevor
- Ira Berlin
- Larry Berman
- Herbert Bix
- Edwin Black
- Kevin Boyle
- Taylor Branch
- H.W. Brands
- Joshua Brown
- Douglas Brinkley
- David Brooks
- Jon Butler
- Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch
- Richard Carwardine
- George Chauncey
- Thomas D. Clark
- Eliot Cohen
- Robert Conquest
- Pete Daniel
- David Herbert Donald
- John Dower
- Willie Drye
- Melvin Patrick Ely
- Tom Engelhardt
- John Esposito
- Richard Evans
- Niall Ferguson
- John Ferling
- David Hackett Fischer
- Robin Lane Fox
- John Hope Franklin
- Scot French
- Francis Fukuyama
- Timothy R. Furnish
- Robert Gildea
- Lewis Gould
- Anthony Grafton
- Victor Davis Hanson
- John Earl Haynes
- Chalmers Johnson
- Tony Judt
- Sadakat Kadri
- Donald Kagan
- Michael H. Kater
- Roger Kimball
- Stephen Kinzer
- Michael Klarman
- Harvey Klehr
- Erik Larson
- Bernard Lewis
- David McCullough
- James McPherson
- Daniel Mandel
- Mary Beth Norton
- Rick Perlstein
- Daniel Pipes
- William Polk
- Philip Pomper
- Gerald Posner
- Andrew Roberts
- Geoffrey Roberts
- Randy Roberts
- Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin
- Simon Schama
- Larry Schweikart
- James Simon
- Emily Thompson
- Stephen Walt
- Garry Wills
- Gordon S. Wood
- Michael Wood
- Julian Zelizer
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Phil Katz - 12/15/2003
Two items:
1) A long interview with Kenneth Stampp (part of a large oral-history project at UC Berkeley): http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt258001zq/
2) A short 1993 interview with Roy Rosenzweig (from "Left History"): http://www.yorku.ca/lefthist/online/interview/rosenzweig.html
Greg Tingle - 6/30/2003
I/V: Rick Shenkman, Editor and Journalist - History News Network / HNN.us 23rd June 2003 (interview by Greg Tingle)
What's your background and that of the History News Network?
All of my adult life I have worked as both a journalist and a historian.
At History News Network I finally have the chance to be both simultaneously. I'm not sure if at heart I am one or the other.
Am I a historian who's moonlighting as a journalist or the other way around? Don't know. I established HNN in 2001. We went online in June of that year--the fulfillment of a dream that began, I suppose, with an op ed I wrote for the New York Times in 1980 in which I chastised the media for the shallowness of its coverage of news. I suggested that to remedy the defect the media should begin ringing up historians for their views just as often as they call upon economists or political scientists. We have hundreds of historians to write for us. Most are in the US but some live overseas. HNN gives historians a national platform. We can't afford to pay anybody but we do offer them visibility. Most historians are happy with that. Anyway, they hold paying jobs so don't rely on their writing for income.
What were the world's most important news media milestones?
In the past century there were 3 important inventions that had an impact on the media: radio, TV and the Internet......
Full interview at:
http://www.mediaman.com.au/interviews/shenkman.html
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