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Stories of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Controversial new research
• Historians in the political arena
• Allegations of academic misconduct and impropriety
• Disputes over landmarks and historic sites, and public memory

Too many historians think that their work is not of interest to the news media, but they’re wrong! Witness the controversy over the Texas schoolbooks or Susan Reverby’s research into syphilis experiments in Guatemala that sparked an apology from the U.S. State Department. Historians can and should be active in the public sphere, and that’s the very point of the History News Network!