Historians in the News

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  11/22/2019
  

  The Ten Best History Books of 2019

  by Angela Serratore

  Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/3/19
  

  ‘Well Worth Saving’

  by Scott Jaschik

  Laurel Leff discusses her book on the failure of American universities to rescue scholars seeking to flee Nazi Germany.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  12/2/19
  

  Anne Boleyn Has Had a Bad Reputation for Nearly 500 Years. Hayley Nolan Wants to Change That

  by Suyin Haynes

  As the second wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn was one of the most powerful women in the world in the 16th century.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  12/2/19
  

  James Grossman Writes Article on Career Diversity: "Revising Revisited: Words Matter When It Comes to Career Diversity"

  by James Grossman

  Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.

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• SOURCE: Origins
  December
  

  Review: A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left

  by Amanda Lawson

  In his book, historian David C. Kirkpatrick explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American Evangelical Left.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/1/2019
  

  Michael Howard, Eminent British Military Historian, Dies at 97

  A decorated soldier in World War II, he helped reshape the study of war and was knighted in 1986 for his academic work.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/22/2019
  

  The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies

  by J. T. Roane

   An interview with  Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019).

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  December 2, 2019
  

  Robert Massie, Pulitzer Prize winning author who popularized Russian history, dead at 90

  by Hillel Italie

  Robert K. Massie was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specialized in best-selling and critically praised history of Russian tsars.   

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  December 1, 2019
  

  Michael Kazin Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book, The Second Founding

  by Michael Kazin

  Eric Foner’s story of American freedom, The Second Founding, sheds new light on how the Civil War and Reconstruction influenced the Constitution.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/27/2019
  

  Marilyn Yalom, Feminist Author and Historian, Is Dead at 87

  Marilyn Yalom, a feminist author and historian, died on Nov. 20 at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. She was 87.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/25/19
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez Interviewed on NPR: The 'Forgotten' History Of Anti-Latino Violence In The U.S.

  The U.S. has a long and largely forgotten history of violence against Latinos, says Monica Muñoz Martinez, an assistant professor of American studies at Brown University and author of “The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/21/19
  

  William Loren Katz, Historian of African-Americans, Dies at 92

  He documented the often overlooked contributions of black people in books for young adults, helping to refashion social studies curriculums across the country.

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• SOURCE: Brown Daily Herald
  11/19/19
  

  Beloved University professor passes away at 64

  Robert Douglas Cope remembered for compassion, engaging lectures.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/14/19
  

  British Historians Antony Beevor, Tom Holland and Dan Snow say they cannot vote for party under Corbyn

  In a letter to the Guardian, they said: “To ignore it because Brexit looms larger is to declare that anti-Jewish prejudice is a price worth paying for a Labour government.”

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  11/14/19
  

  He Predicted Both Trump’s Election and Impeachment. What Else Does He Know?

  A conversation with Allan Lichtman, who's correctly predicted every election since 1984.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/20/19
  

  Dorothy Seymour Mills, who received belated credit for husband's baseball books, dies at 91

  Seymour praised his wife, then known as Dorothy Z. Seymour, for her “indispensable” work in his acknowledgments, but her contributions turned out to be much greater than most people realized.

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• SOURCE: LA Review of Books
  11/21/19
  

  A Defense of Aristocracy: On Anthony T. Kronman’s “The Assault on American Excellence”

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jim Sleeper reviews Anthony T. Kronman's new book, The Assault on American Excellence.

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• SOURCE: Literary Hub
  11/13/19
  

  On the Missing History at New York’s Warship Intrepid Museum

  by James Loewen

  James W. Loewen Wonders What Happened to Vietnam.

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• SOURCE: World Wide Socialist Web
  11/18/19
  

  An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project

  "Collectively their work has prompted some very strong criticism from scholars in the field. My concern is that by avoiding some of the basic analytical questions, most of the scholars have backed into a neo-liberal economic interpretation of slavery."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/17/19
  

  Historian Jeffrey Engel Takes Listener Questions On Impeachment Inquiry on NPR's All Things Considered

  NPR's Michel Martin poses listener questions about the impeachment inquiry to historian Jeffrey Engel, co-author of Impeachment: An American History.