Historians in the News

Holocaust Historian Deborah Lipstadt Explains Why People Believe Trump's Lies

In an interview with Esquire Magazine she warns that the media have to call out Donald Trump for his lies.

Princeton’s Harold James warns World War Three is now a "serious threat”

“[T]he parties in the political middle and the centre are on the whole in favour of openness, in favour of trade and in favour of migration, but they’re squeezed from both the right and the left.”

Israeli schools' history lessons create good soldiers, says pundit

by Uri Misgav

But this doesn’t mean they’re getting the history they need to understand the world.

Yuval Noah Harari foresees a god-like future for humans

It’s the theme of his latest book,"Homo Deus.”

Published Historian Of Spain Indicted By A Federal Grand Jury For Possession Of Child Pornography

Henry Kamen, a British citizen currently residing in Barcelona, Spain, is a well-known historian and Professor of Spanish History, who resided within the Athens Division of the Middle District of Georgia.

Stephen F. Cohen continuing his lonely campaign to stop the media from "Kremlin-Baiting President Trump”

"Bipartisan allegations that Trump is a “puppet” of or “compromised” by the Kremlin have grown into latter-day McCarthyism with grave threats to America and the world."

Seven Books Named as Finalists for the 2017 $50,000 George Washington Prize

Authors include: Jane Kamensky, Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf, Michael J. Klarman, Alan Taylor, TH Breen, Mark Edward Lender, Garry Wheeler Stone, and Nathaniel Philbrick.

Trump Appoints Art Historian Victoria Coates to National Security Council

An art historian now holds one of the most important national security jobs in the country.

Hajimu Masuda’s fresh interpretation of the Cold War from below is drawing wide attention

by Masuda Hajimu

As he explains in this excerpt he argues that the actual divides of the Cold War existed not necessarily between the Eastern and Western blocs but within each society.

A historian of Islam explains the greatest misconception people have about Muslims

"Maybe of all of the misconceptions, the greatest is that there’s a set of prescriptions, or a set of doctrines, even dogmas, that necessarily incline Muslims to take specific positions on politics." - Chase F. Robinson

Third Reich historian Richard Evans worries the similarities between the 1930s and now are too close for comfort

"Of course history never repeats itself. Democracy dies in different ways at different times.”

Daniel Pipes expects the Muslim Brotherhood to be banned.

In an interview he says it would be a mistake for Trump to focus on ISIS in Syria since it’s the government that’s responsible for 90% of the deaths.

Harvard’s David Moss is using the case study method to teach history

"Case-method history asks students to put themselves in the shoes of historical decision-makers and to try to wrestle with those decisions looking forward, as if the students were there at the time.”

Princeton’s Edie S. Glaude: Black History Month Reveals the White Lies of America

by Edie S. Glaude

"The yearly ritual of Black History Month ideally strips away the illusions of our national myth. It is a 28-day refusal to turn the page."

French historian Georges Bensoussan sued over ‘Arab hate’ comment

French Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan is being sued by Muslim anti-racism groups for saying in a radio debate: “In French Arab families, babies suckle antisemitism with their mothers’ milk.”

Tzvetan Todorov, Literary Theorist and Historian of Evil, Dies at 77

Mr. Todorov became prominent in the 1970s for his work on structuralism, a method of interpretation — influenced by cultural anthropology — that focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behavior.

Dore Ashton, Art Critic Who Embraced and Inhabited Modernism, Dies at 88

Ms. Ashton wrote sweeping histories and intimate studies devoted to individual artists, especially those in the world of Abstract Expressionism.

Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler Authority, Is Dead at 92

A Parisian educated in France and the United States, Professor de La Grange was inspired to pursue his life's work after a Carnegie Hall concert in 1945.

Harvard’s David Armitage’s superb timing

by Richard Kreitner

His new book is about civil wars.

U. Of Delaware’s Erica Armstrong Dunbar uncovers the hidden history of the slave who escaped from George Washington’s Philadelphia mansion

She tells the story in a new book, "Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.”