Historians/History

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• 4/20/18
  

  The Prize that Taints the Pulitzer's Ethics and Honor

  by Philip Nobile

  It's the Pulitzer that went to Alex Haley’s tarnished blockbuster, “Roots.”

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• 4/20/18
  

  Before the Gold Rush There Was This

  by Richard Ravalli

  A half-century boom in the fur trade that decimated California otters.

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• 4-16-18
  

  A Short Chat at a Party with Some Ambassadors from Former Soviet Republics and Suddenly this Historian Was an “Informed Source in Jerusalem”

  by Isabella Ginor

  It happened twenty years ago when Bill Clinton launched missiles in the midst of his sex scandal.

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• 4-16-18
  

  We Solemnly Chant “Never Again.” Now, We Know Better.

  by Edwin Black

  The new battleground is not in some basement or backyard where hate is brewing. It’s not on the street. It’s in your phone and on your screen.

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• 4/15/18
  

  A Writer at The Atlantic Uses History to Make a Point About the 2016 Election – And Historians Moan

  by Michael Brenes

  Here's why they aren't celebrating this attempt at a usable past.

• 
• 4-9-18
  

  “Washington Is Going to Burn, Washington Is Going to Burn” 

  by Roger Chapman

  How a white eight year old who lived in DC experienced the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• 4/8/18
  

  This Massacre of Black Soldiers During the Civil War Is Reason Enough to Bring Down the Confederate Statues

  by Alan Singer

  It was the Fort Pillow Massacre. And it was ghastly.

• 
• 4/3/18
  

  100 Years Ago this Week, During WW 1, a German-American Was Lynched

  by Carl R. Weinberg

  It is a cautionary tale about the dangers of war hysteria, but also something more: testament to the solidarity of the labor movement.

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• 4/22/18
  

  When Did Americans First Become Shocked by Lying?

  by John V. H. Dippel

  It was at the turn of the last century when two famous explorers both claimed to have been the first to step foot on the North Pole.

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• 4/1/18
  

  Grace Under Pressure: Martin Luther King, 1968

  by Joseph Rosenbloom

  His last, stunning speech.

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• 4/1/18
  

  Robert Kennedy’s Gettysburg Address

  by Jerald Podair

  He gave it 50 years ago after hearing that MLK had been assassinated.

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• 4/1/18
  

  Stanford’s All White Male History Conference

  by Sasha Turner, Barbara Molony, and Sandra Dawson

  A response from the Coordinating Council of Women Historians.

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• 4/1/18
  

  Demoting “Maryland, My Maryland” Ends a Struggle Begun by Black Baltimoreans in 1863

  by Martha S. Jones

  Another pillar of the Lost Cause myth falls.

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• 4/1/18
  

  This Is What LBJ Did When He Heard that MLK Had Been Killed

  by Kyle Longley

  It shows you what a president with empathy for African Americans does.

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• 4/13/18
  

  These Are the Women in Richard the Lionheart’s Life You Should Know About

  by W. B. Bartlett

  First and foremost there’s his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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• 4/22/18
  

  So How Should We Think About Sherman’s March?

  by J.D. Dickey

  The fact is historians are still fighting over it.

• 
• 3-26-18
  

  When Mississippi Basketball Was Integrated. (Sort of.)

  by Luther Spoehr

  It was in 1963. And for the first time the all-white Bulldogs of Mississippi State agreed to play an out-of-state team including black players.

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• 4/8/18
  

  Why Ike Keeps Going Up Up Up in Scholarly Polls

  by Keith W. Olson

  It’s because his legacy keeps becoming more and more relevant.

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• 4/16/18
  

  We Generate More Data Driving to Work Each Day than Did Alexander the Great’s Entire Army Marching to India and Back

  by Frank L. Holt

  But that didn’t stop this courageous historian from trying to quantify Alexander’s wealth.

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• 3/27/18
  

  How a Reporter Uncovered the FBI’s Secret Use of a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement

  by Marc Perrusquia

  Decades later the FBI was still trying to conceal their source’s identity.