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Live Q&A With Thomas S. Kidd

This real-time Q&A with Thomas S. Kidd took place between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. Eastern on October 13, 2010 on HNN's Ning Network.Deepak Tripathi: You rightly argue that religion was inextricably linked to the American Revolutionary Movement. Therefore, was the “separation of church and state” a principle doomed to failure? And how do you explain so much ignorance of the third major Abrahamic Islam, in American so

Complete List: Top Young Historians the Next 100

by Bonnie K. Goodman

Top Young Historians: Main IndexHaving completed profiling the first 100 historians in our series in 2009, we are now relaunching the series to profile another 100 fascinating and dynamic Top Young Historians making their mark on the profession.All profiled historians are nominated and undergo a review process before they are chosen. Each historian on this list has made outstanding contributions to the discipline in their area of res

Annette Gordon-Reed: Awarded a 2010 MacArthur Fellowship

On September 28, 2010, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named legal scholar, historian, and Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed as one of the recipients of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship, known as the MacArthur"Genius" Award/Grant. This past year Gordon-Reed also received the National

Thomas E. Sebrell II: British sympathies during the American Civil War [audio, 3 minutes 54 seconds]

Today reporter Tom Bateman joins an American Civil War tour of London.

ACE Forum with Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer

HNN is pleased to present this interview with Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, conducted by the Berkeley Political Review, the Columbia Political Review, the Harvard Political Review, the Penn Political Review, and the Vanderbilt Political Review. Each organization posed three questions to Ms. Kadeer via e-mail, with a final round of questions by Mark Hay, the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Political Review.Berkeley Political Review

The Relentless Revolution - Joyce Appleby on the History of Capitalism [8 minutes 3 seconds]

"Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is." So says Joyce Appleby, professor emerita at UCLA and author of the new book, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. Although she criticizes certain aspects of capitalism, Appleby credits it for producing countless marvels of the modern world. "If you want this level of enjoyment," says Appleby, "Science, the arts, food, transportation, information—then you have to realize what

Simon Schama: U.S. Islamophobia Worse Now [video, 4 minutes 30 seconds]

Historian Simon Schama explains why he believes Islamophobia in the U.S. is worse now than after 9/11.

Gay Marriage Q&A

(9-13-10)

Daniel Okrent: When Liquor Was Prescribed as Medicine [video, 2 minutes, 29 seconds]

Author Daniel Okrent describes how wealthy people managed to evade Prohibition in this episode of Slate V's Bookmark.

Mark Hay: Class-Based Affirmative Action, Round 3

The Columbia Political Review has joined with other college political publications to form the Alliance of Collegiate Editors (ACE), hoping to generate cross-campus dialogue on political issues. This is the third piece in the first of a series of continuing discussions of major issues. For the first piece, see Sam Barr’s post

Jeremy Pilaar: Class-Based Affirmative Action, Round 4

The Berkeley Political Review has joined with other college political publications to form the Alliance of Collegiate Editors (ACE), hoping to generate cross-campus dialogue on political issues. This is the fourth piece in the first of a series of continuing discussions of major issues. For the first piece, see Sa

Sam Barr: Class-Based Affirmative Action

The Harvard Political Review has joined with other college political publications to form the Alliance of Collegiate Editors (ACE), hoping to generate cross-campus dialogue on political issues. The first topic we will discuss is class-based affirmative action. This article was written by Sam Barr>Class-based affirmative action is an issue on wh

John Gee: Class-Based Affirmative Action, Round 2

Penn Political Review has joined with other college political publications to form the Alliance of Collegiate Editors (ACE), hoping to generate cross-campus dialogue on political issues. The first topic we will discuss is class-based affirmative action.Sam suggests that conservatives who oppose race-based affirmative action must necessarily oppose class-based affirmative

Dissent Video: Obama and the Left [video, 55 minutes 7 seconds]

On July 28, David Bromwich, Eugene Goodheart, and Julian Zelizer gathered to discuss the relationship between President Obama and the Left, in a panel moderated by Dissent’s executive editor Maxine Phillips.

Alexander Zaitchik and Rick Perlstein: Whither Glenn Beck? [video 19 minutes 44 seconds]

Glenn Beck might not have a lot of advertisers left, but he's got a lot of viewers still. And the Obama administration recently showed off just how terrified they are of the FOX News host by pressuring Shirley Sherrod to leave her position because of the threat of a video appearing on Beck's show. But Beck didn't start off as a journalist (or a demagogue). He came from much humbler beginnings. Alexander Zaitchik has a new book out, Common Nonsense, looking at the background and blus

Timothy Furnish on Iranian Mahdism and WMDs [video, 82 minutes 44 seconds]

Timothy Furnish at a forum (also attended by Rick Santorum) sponsored by the Hudson Institute on Iranian Mahdism and WMDs.

Nancy Koehn on Lincoln's Wartime Leadership [video, 3 minutes 41 seconds]

Harvard historian Nancy Koehn on how President Abraham Lincoln's found his leadership 'backbone.' (Video by Madeline Marshall, Akira Hakuta, Andrea Useem/The Washington Post)

History Channel Seeks Host for New Series, "The Jefferson Project"

13 JUNE 2010: For the first time in our history, a movement is underway to restore a real life national treasure: the personal book collection of Thomas Jefferson, known as The Jefferson Library. Get a front row seat to all of the action and travel the globe on a quest to uncover the secret hiding places of these lost relics. “The Jefferson Project”, produced by Original Productions – the masterminds behind “Deadliest Catch”, “Ice Road Truckers”, and “Monster Garage” – will feature an In

Frank K. Williams

Devoted Abraham Lincoln scholar and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams acknowledged last week that he"inadvertently" used the opening paragraphs of a 1957 Journal magazine story in an article he wrote on Lincoln in 1993."I feel terrible, mortified, embarrassed," Williams said."I take full responsibility for it." -- MARK ARSENAULT, Providence Journal, April 6, 2004The Providence Journal reported this week that Frank J. Williams wrote an article in 1993 that was substantially similar to another article (by Kenneth B. Roberts) published by the Providence Journal's Sunday magazine in 1957. Williams's 1993 article, which concerned Abraham Lincoln's visits to Rhode Island, appeared in Rhode Island History, which was published by the Rhode Island Historical Society.

James T. Patterson: America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Pt. 1 [Podcast, 40 minutes]

Historian James T. Patterson discusses his book Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore. He looks at the United States during the final quarter of the twentieth century, from the 1970s to the election of 2000. This is part one of a two-part lecture.