Historians in the News

Kenneth Clark is the subject of a new biography

The New York Times calls James Stourton’s book "crisp and authoritative."

Allan Lichtman, who predicted Trump’s election, predicts he’ll be impeached

"This one is not based on a system; it's just my gut. They don't want Trump as president, because they can't control him. He's unpredictable.”

A historian’s take on Trump’s economic plan for blue-collar, manufacturing jobs

"I think as a historian, what strikes one the most about this program is simply its nationalism.” -- Columbia University’s Adam Tooze

How Historians of Tomorrow Will Interpret Donald Trump’s Election

Eight experts weigh in.

Nancy Isenberg says the media got the profile of the average Trump voter wrong

They’re really the disinherited.

World Chaos and World Order: Conversations With Henry Kissinger

The former secretary of state reflects on war, peace, and the biggest tests facing the next president.

Doris Kearns Goodwin explains what we can learn from the 2016 election

In an interview she says the challenge for populist presidents is to figure out how to address problems concretely.

Yaffa Eliach, Historian Who Captured Faces of the Holocaust, Dies at 79

Yaffa Eliach, who as a 4-year-old survived the Nazi massacres of Jews in her Lithuanian town, went on to document their daily life in a kaleidoscopic book and a haunting, three-story canyon of photographs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Forty years ago, George H. Nash created the field of conservative intellectual history. What can he tell us about the right today?

There is truth in the conservative intellectuals’ claim that Trump hijacked conservatism. It is also true that despite its principled origins, conservatism birthed Trump.

Was John Boswell’s book on Christianity and homosexuality over-criticized?

by David Clark

A fresh assessment calls into question much of the criticism, says David Clark.

What Historians Make of the Election

Beverly Gage, Ken Burns, Juan Cole, Emily Charnock, Blair Kelley, Gil Troy, Jack Censer, and many more!

Princeton’s Kevin Kruse Calls 2016 Election Time of ‘Reckoning’ for Religious Right

“The old cross-denominational coalition of the religious right, one that had been in place since the 1970s has been deeply fragmented.”

This scholar says we’ve lost our way

Steven Bullock says one reason is we’ve forgotten how to be polite.

A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That’s Familiar with Trump

Ruth Ben-Ghiat recently wrote a book about Benito Mussolini.

VW asks historian to research role under Brazil dictatorship

The company said in a statement Thursday that Christopher Kopper, a history professor at Bielefeld University in Germany, has been commissioned to “clarify” what role it played.

Alex Lichtenstein to serve as next Editor of the American Historical Review

Lichtenstein is professor of history at Indiana University, where he teaches US and South African history.

Journalist explains why he decided to write a biography of a 19th century Native American woman who became a doctor

by Joe Starita

Joe Starita says her complex story allows us to see the West in a new way.

More information is coming out about Volkswagen's firing of the historian who chronicled its Nazi past

75 prominent German academics accused Volkswagen of a vindictive punishment.

Classicist says historians would make bad policy advisers

by Neville Morley

University of Exeter's Neville Morley weighs in on the suggestion by Niall Ferguson that the White House set up a council of historians.

Blanche Wiesen Cook has finished her 3 volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do we need her now?” Cook asks. “Yes we do!”