Historians in the News

Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos

Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, says New Deal policies led to the establishment of many ghettos.

Mediterranean refugee crisis prompts historians to protest the plan of the European Union for dealing with it

The historians complain that the EU is twisting the "Lessons of History" to excuse unjustifiable violence.

The Herbert Gutman disciple who went on to inspire other grad students to rewrite the “big white man” narrative

Virginia S. Yans is known for advising what she calls her "rainbow children."

Fight over AP U.S. History framework lands in N.J.

State Sen. Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) on Thursday introduced a non-binding resolution (SR128) that urges the College Board — which writes the exam that allows high school students to get college credit — to revise its framework for guiding teachers.

Historian Alan Singer says he’s not qualified to be on the Supreme Court and neither are Roberts, Scalia, Alito or Thomas

That’s because he’s an activist and so are they.

Joseph J. Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has an issue with the Gettysburg Address.

His problem is that 1776 is celebrated as our birth, but we weren’t a real nation then.

And the award for best history writing goes to ...

The Society of American Historians has recognized the writings of  David Levering Lewis, Danielle Allen, Jacinda Townsend, and Justin Leroy.

Robert Darnton closes the book

Departing University Librarian embraced and defended the digital, while still savoring the printed

Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91

Mr. Gay, a refugee from Nazi Germany, devoted his long career to exploring the social history of ideas, a quest that took him far afield from his original area of specialization, Voltaire and the Enlightenment.

The US Senate Salutes Historian

Senate historian Donald Ritchie is stepping down from his "front-row seat to the best show in town."

Historian chastises Sacramento State for substituting anthropology for American history

by Joseph A. Palermo

Joseph Palermo says "it will leave our freshmen and sophomores little understanding of how American institutions have changed through time."

Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan Signed by Hundreds Including John Dower and Herbert Bix

"The undersigned scholars of Japanese studies express our unity with the many courageous historians in Japan seeking an accurate and just history of World War II ."

This is just one reason Eric Burns decided to write a whole book about the year 1920

It was the year women got the right to vote and also the year we had the first woman president

Historian traces racist origin of Louisiana law allowing 10-2 jury verdicts

Thomas Aiello says the law allowing such verdicts was crafted during the Jim Crow era.

Israel Museum turns Yuval Noah Harari's "Brief History of Humankind" into exhibit

The book summarizes the entire history of Homo sapiens since man started talking some 70,000 years ago.

What Niall Ferguson's been tweeting lately

He's voting Tory, still mad at Krugman, wonders what liberals would say if Bush had droned like Obama.

Scholar of Urban Riots: Expect More Unrest

In an interview historian Ashley M. Howard says we demonize blacks who turn violent but still lionize white labor activists from the 19th century who used violence.

Historian says Indian mascots remain popular even at schools that dropped them

In an interview Jennifer Guiliano, author of "Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America," says "there lingers this intense community obsession."

A column by Johns Hopkins historian N. D. B. Connolly causes a firestorm on the website of New York Times

by HNN Editor

More than 1,100 readers posted comments on the article.

Garry Wills says the Pope is scaring the dickens out of rich people

by Garry Wills

And that's a good thing.