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: Stat News
  9/12/19
  

  Historians push to create public archive of documents from massive opioid litigation

  Featuring historians Antoine Lentacker and Rachel Taketa.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/13/19
  

  Fake Citations Kill Historian's Career

  Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University, plagiarized parts of his award-winning book on North Korea.

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• SOURCE: NCPH
  9/11/19
  

  Jim McGrath on Podcasts and Public History

  by Jim McGrath

  "This post is a reflection on my ongoing experiences with podcasts as a listener, creator, and collaborator."

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/11/19
  

  Uncovering the History of Child Psychiatry: A Conversation with Deborah Blythe Doroshow

  by Kylie Smith

  Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children explores the development of Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs) for “emotionally disturbed” children. 

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• SOURCE: We're History
  9/12/19
  

  Gerald Ford, Impeachment, and The Difference Between Politics and Law Enforcement

  by Michael J. Socolow

  Though the pardon still haunts his memory, it’s time we viewed Ford’s act through the prism of distance and experience.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 9, 2019
  

  In the Army’s new museum, the soldiers look alive and the battle scenes are all too real

  by Michael E. Ruane

  The U.S. Army's $400 million flagship museum at Fort Belvoir is set to open next spring. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  September 10, 2019
  

  When This German Artist Tried to Use His Work to Warn About Hitler, the World Ignored Him. It's Time to Listen

  by Mary M. Lane

  German painter George Grosz predicted the rise of the Nazi Regime through his art. Why did no one pay attention? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/9/19
  

  What Happens to Those Heartbreaking Tributes at the 9/11 Memorial

  The expressions of mourning left behind at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum are cleared nightly and preserved.

• 
• SOURCE: History Today
  September 2019
  

  Is There Still Value in ‘Great Man’ History? 3 historians discuss

  by Jane Ridley, Sean Lang, Lucasta Miller

  How important is the study of the powerful, epoch-defining individual?

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  9/9/19
  

  At meeting in Kyoto, global body debates how to define and protect museums

  At the heart of the debate is determining the role museums should play in the 21st century, and the extent to which they should engage the public.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/9/19
  

  AHA Ends First-Round Job Interviews at Annual AHA Conference

  American Historical Association ends annual meeting interviews and American Economic Association ends single hotel room interviews.

• 
• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  Tera Hunter Pens NY Times Op Ed on "The Power of Serena Williams"

  by Tera W. Hunter

  "What she and Venus have accomplished is far more important than future titles and broken records."

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• SOURCE: New Books Network
  9/9/19
  

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Derek Litvak Interviews Amanda L. Tyler

  by Derek Litvak

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Laure Adler and Camille Viéville's new book rewrites art history to include women

  A review of  “The Trouble with Women Artists." 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/5/19
  

  Adjunct Professors Share Salaries and Working Conditions in a New Spreadsheet Created by Erin Bartram

  The anonymous list, launched by historian Erin Bartram, has garnered about 250 entries so far. 

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  9/4/19
  

  Reviewing Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

  by Tiana Wilson

  Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/4/19
  

  Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Interviews LaShawn Harris and Max Felker-Kantor

  by AAIHS Editors

  Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

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• SOURCE: University of Arkansas News
  9/4/19
  

  Historian Caree Banton Publishes New Book on Race and Identity in Atlantic World

  Banton closely examines the Afro-Barbadians and provides a transatlantic approach to understanding the political and sociocultural consequences of their migration and settlement in Africa.

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• SOURCE: Society for Intellectual History Blog
  8/31/2019
  

  A Look into the First Day of this Professor's History Class

  by L.D. Burnett

  After going over the syllabus, professor L.D. Burnett wants her students to access the core of historical study.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  September 2, 2019
  

  Introducing New Writers and Editors for ‘Black Perspectives’

  'Black Perspectives' as hired new editors and writers. Read more about them.