historians

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/10/2021
  

  Tweeting To Find Community

  by Varsha Venkatasubramanian

  Don't fear Twitter, new historians. Use it for learning, networking, and fun.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/16/2021
  

  Can Historians Be Traumatized by History? (Content Warning)

  by James Robins

  "If the historian—the very person supposed to process the past on behalf of everyone else—struggles with trauma, then it is little surprise that societies as a whole struggle to face the violence of how they were formed and how they prevailed."

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/21/2020
  

  History, Deliberation, and Civic Culture

  by Jim Grossman

  "Equating a mode of inquiry with a heinous crime should induce not only a private shudder but a public disavowal. No reasonable definition of patriotism can accommodate this despicable metaphor."

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• SOURCE: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  5/11/2020
  

  Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks: Live Discussions with Eminent Historians on Sunday Afternoons

  Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks is a new program that features the most exciting history scholars in America discussing their books with host William Roka live, followed by a Q&A with home audiences.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg Quint
  3/29/2020
  

  How to Battle the Coronavirus and Win: A Historians’ Roundtable

  How unprecedented is this situation, really? Business and military historian Mark Wilson, economist Mark Harrison, and political scientist Rosella Cappella Zielinski discuss.  

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• SOURCE: Milwaukee Magazine
  3/18/2020
  

  UWM Archive Chronicling Milwaukee's Coronavirus Experience for History

  “Historical institutions commit to opening their doors and taking in documents and records that might help preserve the community’s memory for future generations.”, says historian Christopher D. Cantwell.

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• SOURCE: The Gotham Center for New York City History
  3/23/20
  

  An Interview with Historian Ansley Erickson

  Erickson is the co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, a new book from the Harlem Education History Project.

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• SOURCE: Futurism
  3/10/2020
  

  In The Coronavirus, Historians See Echoes of Past Pandemics

  Science has progressed, sure, but leaders have ignored other lessons, argues historian Graham Mooney.

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  3/4/2020
  

  Historian Greg Grandin’s Frontier Thesis and the Ecological Imagination

  by Anthony Chaney

  In his new book, Grandin traces the idea of limitless expansion in American history, and he suggests that the era of that ideology has ended.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2020
  

  The Case for a Free or Inexpensive Coronavirus Vaccine

  by Deborah Levine

  Jonas Salk understood that his polio vaccine was a common good. We should follow his lead.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/24/20
  

  Historians Must Contextualize the Election For Voters

  by Joanne B. Freeman

  Historian Joanne B. Freeman explains why this information is crucial for getting the election right.

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• SOURCE: Richmond News
  2/25/20
  

  Historian Heidi Tworek Interviewed on the History Behind Coronavirus Racism

  How does history help explain the current panic about the novel coronavirus?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/23/20
  

  Historian Edward Achorn Interviewed by the NY Times About His Book Every Drop of Blood

  24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life

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• 2/23/20
  

  How Can Historians Serve and Learn From the Public?

  by Erik Moshe

  Annette Joseph-Gabriel hopes public conversations about the United States’ foundations will continue and will be undergirded by intellectual honesty and rigor.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  2/18/20
  

  Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history

  Featuring Shennette Garrett-Scott, LaGarrett King, Sowande Mustakeem, Douglas J. Flowe, Jason Allen, and Dale Allender. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/16/20
  

  Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat Quoted in Washington Post Article on Trump's Quest to Rewrite History

  ‘Something has to be done’: Trump’s quest to rewrite history of the Russia probe.

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• SOURCE: Commonwealth Magazine
  1/28/20
  

  Historian James T. Kloppenberg Writes Article About Teaching Pete Buttigieg

  "Reading Buttigieg: A former teacher’s perspective"

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/13/20
  

  Historian Allyson Hobbs Writes Personal Essay for NY Times on Parents Divorce

  "I thought their bond was indestructible. Now I’m mourning people who are still alive."

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/10/20
  

  Yuval Noah Harari's History of Everyone, Ever

  His blockbuster “Sapiens” predicted the possible end of humankind. Now what?

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• SOURCE: Vox
  2/6/20
  

  Harvard historian Jill Lepore on what “Why We’re Polarized” gets wrong

  by Ezra Klein

  Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on The Ezra Klein Show. But in this episode of the show, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions. Hard ones.