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: Chris Riback's Conversations
  Accessed 8/9/19
  

  2 New Podcast Episodes Discuss How the Republican Party became the Party of Trump and CIA "Black Sites"

  Chris Riback in conversation with Tim Alberta and Philip Mudd.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/6/19
  

  ‘Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution’ Review: On the Marxist Question

  by Jonathan Rose

  A new biography presents him not as a clockwork economic determinist but rather as a flexible analyst of capitalism.

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• SOURCE: Good to Go
  7/16/19
  

  Tony Platt Reviews Simon Schama’s The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

  by Tony Platt

  I’m encouraged that Schama thinks crime and punishment is a sufficiently important topic to bookend his 700-page tome.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/6/2019
  

  Professor Breaks Down U.S. Racism, Trump’s ‘Ugliness’ In 3 Powerful Minutes

  Trump is “a manifestation of the ugliness that’s in us,” Princeton’s Eddie Glaude Jr. told MSNBC.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/4/2019
  

  ‘Charles I's Killers in America’ Review: Regicides on the Run

  Among the men who signed a king’s death warrant were two who, in the American colonies, met with admiration and ambivalence.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/2/2019
  

  How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

  Tim Naftali was the first director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba Linda, California.

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• SOURCE: Irish Central
  8/2/2019
  

  German historian who made up WWII Holocaust survivors found dead in Dublin

  Sophie Hingst, a German blogger and historian who had studied at Trinity College Dublin, was found dead in her Dublin apartment on July 17.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2019
  

  Ibram X. Kendi Has a Cure for America’s ‘Metastatic Racism’

  In 2016, he was a surprise National Book Award winner for a sweeping history of ever-mutating American racism. Now, he’s back with a new book that outlines how to fight it.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/6/2019
  

  Historian Timothy C. Winegard's 'The Mosquito' a fascinating history of a small but mighty menace

  If your summertime activity includes slapping away noisy insects while enjoying a fat beach book, you might relate to Timothy C. Winegard’s entertainingly educational new opus, "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.”

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• SOURCE: The Politic
  8/5/2019
  

  An Interview with Dr. Nora Krinitsky, Historian, Researcher, and Interim Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project

  Dr. Krinitsky is currently working on a book, “The Politics of Crime Control: Race, Policing, and Reform in Twentieth-Century Chicago,” while working on research projects at the University of Michigan.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  8/1/2019
  

  What’s in a Name? Meet the Government Employees Who Make the Call

  A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places

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• SOURCE: Morning Call
  8/4/2019
  

  Philly’s American Revolution museum steps up to help migrants succeed

  The free, eight-session evening program aims to strengthen immigrants' understanding of the nation's revolution and evolution.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  8/5/2019
  

  Archaeologist works with tribe to explore its history and to repair historic injustices

  Archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to Jemez this summer to help members of the tribe excavate the site of two mission churches.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/4/2019
  

  Timothy C. Winegard on His New Book Explaining the History of the Mosquito, 'Our Deadliest Predator'

  Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to author Timothy C. Winegard about his new book about the mosquito.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/19
  

  Widow, slaveholder, mother of our first president

  by Marjoleine Kars

  Eager to uncover the real Mary, Martha Saxton, an emerita historian at Amherst College who has written biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jayne Mansfield, set out to paint a more true-to-life portrait.

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• SOURCE: A Correction: A Podcast
  7/26/19
  

  Historian David Carlin Discusses Teaching the Treaty of Versailles on Podcast

  The hosts speak with David Carlin about why we need to reexamine the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles on its 100th anniversary.

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• SOURCE: UPI
  7/24/19
  

  Historian unearths evidence that Istanbul directed Armenian genocide

  New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/29/19
  

  Averill Earls Reviews Naomi Wolf's Infamously Flawed Book "Outrages"

  by Averill Earls

  This is a book that claims to be a work of history. This book absolutely needed the peer review of historians knowledgeable in this content area. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/19
  

  Historians Describe How The Use the Mueller Report When Teaching

  Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7/21/19
  

  Kruse and Zelizer: Trump Is a Symptom of an Age That’s Been a Long Time Coming

  What does history’s magic 8-ball say about how we wound up with Donald Trump? Two historians try to supply the context.