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: Cobbloviate Blog
  11/11/19
  

  When Southern Historians Made History Themselves

  by Jim Cobb

  At the SHA meeting 70 years ago, John Hope Franklin became the first black scholar to present a paper at the conference. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/9/19
  

  A Slave Rebellion Rises Again

  Some 500 enslaved people revolted in Louisiana but were largely ignored by history. Two centuries later, an ambitious re-enactment brings their uprising back to life.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/8/19
  

  The Trouble With ‘Ole Miss’

  by Marc Parry

  The U. of Mississippi has distanced itself from much of its Confederate past. Will it ever do the same with its popular nickname?

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• SOURCE: US News
  11/7/2019
  

  The Bunkers that Came in From the Cold

  by Catherin Shaer

  “The German Publics Growing worries over global tensions – in part tied to Trump’s policies – are stirring a revived interest in Cold War artifacts”

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• SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
  11/7/2019
  

  An Intellectual Conversion Narrative

  by Andrew Klumpp

  Klumpp reflects on USIH, what it means to be an intellectual historian and the USIH community

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• SOURCE: The First News
  November 9, 2019
  

  Historians unearth the lost secrets of Hitler’s Wolf Lair fruit and veg plot

  by Alex Webber

  A team of local historians unearthed the remains of a garden and greenhouse complex once used to grow vegetables destined for the Fuhrer’s dining table.

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/9/19
  

  Nebraska Just Approved More Inclusive Social Studies Guidelines. They're a Window Into the Changing Way Kids Are Learning U.S. History

  Steps taken in Nebraska are a window into the way that conversation is changing, amid increased public scrutiny of what American students are learning about history.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/12/19
  

  History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/9/2019
  

  Documentary Filmmaker's New Film Probes History of Native Americans in the US Military

  "The Warrior Tradition," a new film set to air on PBS, examines the complex history of Native Americans in the U.S. military since World War I and how their service transformed the lives for Native Americans from various tribes.

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  10/31/19
  

  Chris Riback is Reading the Impeachment Inquiry Opening Statements Aloud on His Podcast

  by Chris Riback

  An easy way to listen to and understand history-making testimony as it happens. 

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  10/18/19
  

  Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration

  by Chris Riback

  But it turns out, the immigration story — the historical American experience and the current realities — serves as an incredibly useful way to consider the entire Trump presidency: Obsession, chaos, fear, depravity, and yet – meaningful, important, and potentially-lasting change that has shifted not only how the world views America, but how we view ourselves.

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• 11/7/19
  

  14 Ships' Figureheads Weighing Over 20 Tons Arrive at UK's Newest Museum, The Box

  by Orbis Conservation

  In what is the most ambitious sculpture conservation project currently taking place in the UK, 14 monumental 19th century naval figureheads have been saved from decay for the nation. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/7/19
  

  Historian Hope Harrison Interviewed for article on German Reunification in The Atlantic

  The article, "What Would It Take to Unify Korea? Germany Offers Lessons, examines all that is still left to do to reunify Germany 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  11/6/19
  

  “If you liked this interview, you’ll love this book”: A Review of Sarah Milov’s The Cigarette: A Political History (2019)

  by Jaipreet Virdi

  "The history of the cigarette does not begin and end with Big Tobacco."

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• SOURCE: VOA
  11/4/19
  

  No End in Sight for Jailed Gulag Historian Yury Dmitriyev

  His decades-long research to expose the scale of the late Communist leader’s terror have met with mounting criticism under Russian President Vladimir Putin and landed him in jail in the Karelian capital of Petrozavodsk in northwest Russia.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10/31/19
  

  Historians Manisha Sinha, Kate Clifford Larson, and Milton Sernett Interviewed for Article on Historical Accuracy of Harriet Film

  "What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/5/19
  

  Teens are making historical events go viral on TikTok

  The most powerful videos use human beings to personify world actors – such as countries – in major historical events.

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  11/4/19
  

  Rafael Medoff's New Book Suggests new evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans

  In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler.

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  Accessed 11/5/19
  

  How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South's schoolbooks

  The poisonous Lost Cause lessons were taught to multiple generations of Southerners to uphold institutionalized white supremacy — in part through public school curriculums shaped by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  10/31/19
  

  Two Histories of Financiers Profiting From Real Estate While Homeowners Go Belly Up

  by Jennifer Szalai

  “Homewreckers,” by Aaron Glantz and “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor show what happens when private speculators get buoyed by government largess while non-tycoons are largely left to fend for themselves.