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: NY Times
  10/10/19
  

  Labor Historian Staughton Lynd's Book Is Embraced by Google Workers and Uber Drivers

  A book based on ideas associated with a labor group from the early 20th century has provided a blueprint for organizing without a formal union.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  10/7/19
  

  Rick Perry recommended former ambassador, historian Daniel Yergin for Ukraine reforms-U.S. Energy Dept

  Perry recommended Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration talk with Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize winning energy historian.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/4/19
  

  Ginsburg predicts historians will call this political era an 'aberration'

  Ginsburg offered her thoughts Thursday on how historians will view this period of American history.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  10/7/19
  

  American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners

  Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  October 4, 2019
  

  A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths Image

  by Emily Gould

  Thomas J. Campanella, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, traces the borough’s vibrant past and comments on the hipster heyday happening there now.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  October 2, 2019
  

  History Museum Explores Germans’ View of Britain

  by The Associated Press

  As Brexit looms, one of Germany’s main history museums is examining Germans’ views of the British, complete with a countdown clock that may be reset if Britain’s departure from the European Union is delayed.

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• SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
  9/6/19
  

  Review of “The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists”

  by Christine Talbot

  “Lisa Pace Vetter’s book, The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists, examines the political theories of seven women who were central figures in American political thought, despite their exclusion from the contemporary canon."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/07/2019
  

  Nancy Pelosi Retweets Op Ed By Historian Jordan E. Taylor

  by Jordan E. Taylor

  The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  10/7/19
  

  “We Feel Very Betrayed”: Community Protests Replacement for J. Marion Sims Monument

  New York City published an open call to replace a contested monument for Sims, who conducted brutal experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women without using anesthesia. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/2/19
  

  National Security Archive, CREW, Historians Ask Federal Judge to Preserve Head of State Records

  by Tom Blanton

  Government agrees to preserve White House records.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/30/2019
  

  After Trump invokes the Civil War, his mockers on Twitter rush to sign up

  Featuring historians Kevin M. Levin, Kevin M. Kruze, Kevin Gannon, Adam Rothman, and David M. Perry.

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/30/19
  

  Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton

  by Keisha N. Blain

  AAIHS Presdient Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate Professor of History at Temple University, about his new book.  

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 25, 2019
  

  Israel’s First Prime Minister Was Complicated. So Is This Book About His Life.

  by Francine Klagsbrun

  Tom Segev studies and compares the life and associated policies of Israel’s very first Prime Minister in A STATE AT ANY COST: The Life of David Ben-Gurion.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  9/29/19
  

  Biographers Peter Longerich and Brendan Simms are Revisiting Hitler in a New Authoritarian Age

  by Talya Zax

  With nationalism and anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, Longerich’s “Hitler: A Biography” and Simms’s “Hitler: A Global Biography” look at the Nazi leader’s march to power. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/30/19
  

  ‘Nineteen Nineteen’ Review: A Year Seen Through the Lens of Its Artifacts

  The Huntington hosts an exhibition as surprising, intriguing and, well, frenetic as the year 1919.

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• SOURCE: The National Archives
  9/25/19
  

  Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero Interviews Justice Gorsuch about the Constitution

  by James Worsham

  Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero spoke with Gorsuch in a conversation about his new book.  

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/29/19
  

  Gandhi Is 'An Object Of Intense Debate': A Biographer Reflects On The Indian Leader

  Ramachandra Guha, a historian of modern India, spoke with NPR at his home in Bengaluru, India, in May.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  9/30/19
  

  Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest. Historians are making the region confront it.

  An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.

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• SOURCE: City Lab
  9/24/19
  

  20 Sites That Tell the Story of American Women Compete for Grant from National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express

  Twenty sites across the United States have been selected to participate in the 2019 competition for a piece of a $2 million grant.