Recent Articles
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4-7-14
The 2014 OAH Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything
Rick Shenkman
Find out what American historians are thinking.
Historians/History
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4-20-14
Is the Only Solution to the Crisis in Ukraine an Appalling One?
Cynthia Hooper
Even were a mountain of cold hard cash at hand, today’s Ukraine would never make it, without middle ground being found among the country’s main superpower patrons. And quickly.
News Abroad
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4-20-14
Why the College of Charleston’s New President Needs a History Lesson
Ethan J. Kytle
McConnell has long argued that critics of his pro-Confederate stance seek to whitewash the past.
News at Home
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4-20-14
What Do You Call It When a Big Country Takes a Chunk of a Small One? Greed (And We Should Know)
David Lee McMullen
The intent is a massive land grab, pure and simple.
News Abroad
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Informed Comment blog
4-17-14
Pictures Don’t Lie: Refuting #there_was_no_Palestine
Juan Cole
The pictures that prove there was a Palestine before the Israeli state came along.
Historians/History
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4-20-14
An Egyptian Jew Looks Back to Her Native Country to Find Her Voice
Juliana Maio
"Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo, Egypt 1941."
Historians/History
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4-20-14
"Before the Witnesses are Gone"
Dr. Jill Gabrielle Klein
Fifteen years ago, when I set out to write a book about the Holocaust experiences of my father’s family, I knew I didn’t have forever.
Historians/History
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4-20-14
Are Historians Overestimating the Impact of Civil War Deaths on Americans of the 19th Century?
Nicholas Marshall
Historians need to re-evaluate the way we have come to understand the carnage of the Civil War.
Historians/History
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June 2006
Where Did The Term "The West" Originate?
Nathan Calverley
What is the geopolitical entity known as “The West”?
Google Questions
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4-20-14
Should History Become a Brand?
Victoria Torres
At a meeting of the National Council for Public History in Monterey, California, historians had an answer.
Historians in the News
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4-16-14
Review of Robert K. Musil’s "Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment"
Lawrence S. Wittner
Despite the central role of women in the environmental movement, surprisingly little is known about them.
Books
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Huff Post
4-13-15
FDR, LBJ and BHO: Does Obama Measure Up?
Ian Reifowitz
Has Obama failed to attract white working class voters?
Roundup
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4-20-14
Love Him or Hate Him, LBJ Was a Political Genius
Bruce Chadwick
As soon as actor Bryan Cranston begins to speak in the play "All the Way," you think that you are in a theater with the real Lyndon Johnson.
Culture Watch
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4-20-14
Public History or Public Toilets in China?
Victoria Torres
"The problem lies in the world ‘public.’ "
Historians/History
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Huffington Post
4-8-14
America's Peace Ship
Lawrence S. Wittner
Is there an emotional connection between the oceans and the pursuit of peace?
Roundup
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4-18-14
Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
Roundup
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October 2001
When Did the Catholic Church Decide Priests Should Be Celibate?
Helen L. Owen
A celibate priesthood predates Christianity.
Google Questions
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4-15-14
The 7 Most Popular HNN Videos from the 2014 OAH
HNN Editor
Limerick, Kerber, Zelizer and more!
Historians in the News
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4-13-14
The Folly of War: Europe 1914, Ukraine 2014
Walter G. Moss
Are wars ever worth all the sufferings that flow from them like blood from dying soldiers?
News Abroad
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4-13-14
Putin, Man of Mystery? Hardly.
Mark D. Steinberg
Putin often speaks quite openly of his motives and values—and opinion polls suggest he is strongly in sync with widespread popular sentiments.
News Abroad
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4-13-14
Why Germans are More Ambivalent About What's Happening in Ukraine than Anybody Else
Juliane Fuerst
There is no other country in which the Ukrainian crisis triggered such a divisive and self-searching debate as in Germany.
News Abroad
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4-13-14
America’s (No) Tax Tradition
Romain Huret
Since the end of the nineteenth century, this tradition of tax resistance has been defended by the most affluent and most advantaged groups in American society.
News at Home
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4-14-14
Sharecropper’s Troubadour
Robin Lindley
University of Washington historian Michael Honey on John Handcox, African American singer and labor activist in the Jim Crow South.
Historians/History
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4-13-14
The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with Annie Jacobsen About Her Stunning Account
Aaron Leonard
The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.
Historians/History
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4-13-14
Your Doctors Are Worried
Lawrence S. Wittner
No, they’re not necessarily your own personal physicians, but, rather, medical doctors around the world, represented by groups like International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
News Abroad
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4-14-14
How a Medieval Knight Solved One of History's Great Crimes
Eric Jager
“Never was there a more treacherous murder!”
Historians/History
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4-13-14
Speakeasy Dollhouse
Bruce Chadwick
Drinking with the Booth Brothers at the Start of Prohibition: Why did John Wilkes Really Shoot Abraham Lincoln?
Culture Watch
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4-13-14
Fishing for Wives
Bruce Chadwick
The Puzzled Japanese ‘Picture Brides’ of Hawaii in 1913
Culture Watch
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