Historians/History

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• 6-15-18
  

  The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Now Claims He Fathered Six Children with Sally Hemings

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  But is the matter really settled?

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• 6/17/18
  

  This Juneteenth Let’s Remember Stories Like This One

  by Anna-Lisa Cox

  It shows that slavery was not the only injustice affecting African Americans before the Civil War.

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• 6/9/18
  

  “Women Also Know History”: Dismantling Gender Bias in the Academy

  by Keisha N. Blain and Karin Wulf

  Nearly half of graduate degrees awarded in history go to women and yet there's still a persistent problem of gender bias in the academy.

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• 6-4-18
  

  Who Killed RFK? Sirhan Sirhan Did It.

  by Mel Ayton

  You can forget the belief he was put up to it by a hypnotist.

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• 6/9/18
  

  An Interview with Edith Sheffer

  by Robin Lindley

  She's the historian who uncovered the horrifying Nazi roots of the doctor after whom Asperger’s Syndrome is named.

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• 6/17/18
  

  The Great Black Abolitionist the World Forgot

  by Jared A. Brock

  His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?

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• 6/3/18
  

  They Once Were the Future, then the Lowell, Massachusetts Textile Mills Went Out of Business

  by Robert Weible

  But they weren’t forgotten.

• 
• 5-30-18
  

  When the Holocaust Came to the Middle East

  by Edwin Black

  Why the UN recognized this event (known as the Farhud) and why it’s important.

• 
• 6/10/18
  

  The Pulitzer's Gentlemen's Agreement

  by Philip Nobile

  An open letter to the Pulitzer Board about its indifference to Alex Haley’s "deliberate deception" in his prize-winning "Roots."

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• 5/26/18
  

  Why Isn’t Congress Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Memorial Day?

  by Ed Hooper

  It is after all arguably our most sacred holiday.

• 
• 6/8/18
  

  Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History

  by Chris Riback

  There was really no way for the city of New Orleans to prepare itself for the next 300 years without dealing with its Confederate statues, he says in an interview.

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• 6/9/18
  

  Edith Sheffer's Amazing Book, "Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna"

  by Jonathan Rose

  The appalling story behind the man Asperger’s is named for.

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• 6/3/18
  

  When Mexico Feared American Immigrants: An Interview with UCLA’s Steve Aron

  by James Thornton Harris

  The historian’s next book is “Can We All Get Along: An Alternative History of the American West.”

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• 5/27/18
  

  Old Lions Department: An Interview with the Africanist Joseph C. Miller at 78

  by Erik Moshe

  How did Miller ever become an Africanist in the first place? By mistake, he says.

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• 6/10/18
  

  Islamic Spain Ended in the 15th Century and We Still Can’t Agree If It Was a Paradise or Hell?

  by Brian Catlos

  Even historians can’t agree.

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• 4-8-18
  

  I Wrote a Textbook. “Fox and Friends” Turned Me into a Villain.

  by James W. Fraser

  “I worry we could be entering a time in which students in some districts will read pro-Trump books and students in other districts will read anti-Trump books.”

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• 6/3/18
  

  Was a Tulane Psychiatrist Described by Some as a Monster a Victim of Presentism?

  by Robin Lindley

  His biographer, Lone Frank, thinks so, as she explains in this revealing interview.

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• 6/10/18
  

  Old Lions Department: Architectural Historian Albert Schmidt at 92

  by Erik Moshe

  His daily schedule? He gets up early, and starts working at 5:30-6:00 AM on his research papers.

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• 5/7/18
  

  HNN's Student Research Paper Contest: And the Winner Is ....

  by David L. O'Connor

  Ibrahim Mammodov of Brooklyn Technical High School in New York for his paper, "Zoroastrian Revivalism and the Rise and Fall of the Khurramite Movement."

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• 6/10/18
  

  The Overlooked Radical of the Revolution: James Monroe

  by John Ferling

  Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine  –  And Monroe? Why this historian thinks they should be grouped together.