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: Fstoppers
  7/14/19
  

  Watching 'Chernobyl': How Important Are Visuals for Understanding History?

  For those struggling to put the facts and visuals together, documentary photography accompanied with words can be a godsend. 

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• SOURCE: Popular Mechanics
  7/12/19
  

  The Surprising Things Arctic Ice Can Tell Us About Human History

  In a new study, scientists say that particles of lead trapped in ice in the north pole tell the story of commercial and industrial processes dating back to the Middle Ages.

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• SOURCE: AP
  https://www.apnews.com/33adc66aee4c40cea19d6049bb6
  

  'History on a stick’ signs disappearing too fast to keep up

  Hurricanes, thievery and wrecks are taking out North Carolina's popular historical highway markers faster than the state can keep up.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/11/19
  

  Colin Palmer, Historian of the African Diaspora, Is Dead at 75

  Colin A. Palmer, a historian who broadened the understanding of the African diaspora, showing that the American slave trade was only one part of a phenomenon that spanned centuries and influenced cultures worldwide, died on June 20 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 75.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  What and Whom Are Jewish Museums For?

  What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non-Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish?

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/14/19
  

  Robert Caro has a crucial piece of advice on interviewing: 'Shut up!'

  "Interviews: silence is the weapon, silence and people's need to fill it — as long as the person isn't you, the interviewer," Caro writes.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In

  Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/14/19
  

  A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.

  They have tenure. She does not.

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  7/14/2019
  

  1969 moon landing was a giant leap for moviemakers, too

  The space race was always going to be won by filmmakers and science-fiction writers.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/14/2019
  

  Founder Of African American History Museum Discovered Dead

  Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was discovered on Friday afternoon in the trunk of a car about 3 miles from her home.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  Her Book in Limbo, Naomi Wolf Fights Back

  After her American publisher delayed her new book, “Outrages,” over accuracy concerns, she is responding with a strategy mixing scholarly peer review and damage control.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/7/19
  

  Louie Howland, editor and award-winning maritime historian, dies at 81

  Mr. Howland was 81 when he died at home on June 21 of lung cancer, and though he sold textbooks early on, he later charted a memorable path as an editor and antiquarian bookseller in Boston’s literary world.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  7/3/2019
  

  ‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, a Scholarly Association Offers a Map

  The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/8/2019
  

  Smithsonian interested in obtaining migrant children's drawings depicting their time in US custody

  "The museum has a long commitment to telling the complex and complicated history of the United States and to documenting that history as it unfolds," according to a statement from the museum

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/8/2019
  

  Archaeologist Sarah Parcak Thinks We Need to Learn From the Fall of Egypt’s Old Kingdom

  In a new book, the archaeologist makes the case that ancient history illuminates solutions to modern problems.

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• SOURCE: US News
  7/7/2019
  

  How Southern Mississippi Professor Leila Hamdan Led Her Team to Explore 2 Historic Shipwrecks

  The University of Southern Mississippi and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) worked together to discover and characterize two unexplored shipwrecks in the Gulf and study marine life on and around the wrecks.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  7/8/2019
  

  Alexandra Witze Reviews Seven Books that Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

  Alexandra Witze savours seven books commemorating the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/4/2019
  

  NPR's Cokie Roberts and Rachel Martin Answer Listener Questions About Women And American Independence

  Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role women played in America's fight for independence from Great Britain.

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• SOURCE: US News
  7/7/2019
  

  Kentucky Historians Explore the Role of Slaves in Kentucky's Bourbon Legacy

  In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/27/2019
  

  Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: New Collection Covers Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

  by Adriana Chira

  With chapters covering a broad geographic expanse (including the North and South Atlantic), the volume shows how Afro-descendants across the Western Hemisphere engaged with new liberal ideologies of inclusion while countering elite efforts to restrict the political openings created by these ideologies.