Historians in the News

Scholars are paying more attention to the history of emotion

They're now organizing conferences.

Jill Lepore’s new book is … a long, steady view of American History

Just a few years ago, “an old-fashioned civics book” might have sounded like a cure for insomnia; now it sounds like a survival guide.

Has a medieval professor of history been defamed?

by Peter Wood

That’s the claim of conservatives who have come to the defense of the University of Chicago’s Rachel Fulton Brown, who’s been accused of indifference to racism.

How 50 Years of Latino Studies Shaped History Education

The first program of this kind, founded in 1968, inspired the expansion of ethnic studies as a discipline, which provides an important counter-narrative to typically Eurocentric college classes.

Black faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill object to reinstalling “Silent Sam”

It would be a rebuke to every black member of the university community.

GOP senator – and historian – Ben Sasse, says he 'regularly' considers leaving Republican Party

He only partly blames his unease with the GOP on Trump.

Historians say Dinesh D’Souza lured them under false pretenses to interview for new pro-Trump film

That’s the reason name historians show up in his widely discredited film.

Liberal historians have been writing the history of conservatism. But have they been fair?

by Geoffrey Kabaservice

"A common flaw of the new political histories is to take the extreme right as representative of conservatism (or the Republican Party) as a whole. “

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Looks to Past Presidents for Lessons the World Could Use Right Now

She has a new book, out in a few weeks, "Leadership: In Turbulent Times."

Jesse Lemisch, Radical Historian, has Died (1936-2018)

Lemisch helped to pioneer history from below, which erupted in late 1960s and early 1970s as various social movements demanded power.

Jan Ellen Lewis, Expert on Jefferson’s Other Family, Dies at 69

She is being remembered for her role in staging a ground-breaking conference on Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

7 Questions for Yuval Noah Harari

The Oxford-trained historian has a new book: “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.”

20 Years Of Google Has Changed the Way We Think, Says Historian

The historian? James W. Cortada, author of "All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States since 1870."

Historians: "History Faces an Uncertain Future at the State Department”

by Seth Denbo

Since the president’s inauguration, several government agencies have stripped their websites of information that was previously available publicly.

Chinese Historian Fired After Tweeting That Chinese "Lie, Commit Fraud and Poison Each Other”

"The highest achievements of the Chinese people consist of lying, cooking the books and issuing fake contracts."

Classicist Mary Beard on Feminism, Online Trolls and What Ancient Rome Can Tell Us About Trump

An interview with Time Magazine.

Prominent Ukrainian Historian Found Dead With Stab Wounds

Mykola Shytyuk was known for his works on the Holodomor famine that killed millions in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Rutgers reexamines decision on racially charged Facebook posts made by historian James Livingston

Did he really violate policies with his satirical post about white people?

Harvard’s Graham Allison answers his critics

No, the liberal order didn’t make the modern world.

Jonathan Zimmerman says Donald Trump should be given a pardon in exchange for resigning

"Mike Pence should make Donald Trump an offer he can't refuse: Full pardon if he resigns the presidency and ends our national nightmare."