Historians/History

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• SOURCE: OAH 2014
  4-15-14
  

  Is Blogging Scholarship?

  Scholars who blog discuss whether blogging is scholarly.

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• 4-13-14
  

  Why Every Teacher Should Require Students to Memorize the Opening Lines of the 14th Amendment (Interview)

  by Linda Kerber

  If students forget everything, let them at least remember the 14th Amendment. 

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• 4-11-14
  

  1964 at 50: Remembering the Mississippi Summer Project

  Hear from the activists who helped change America 50 years ago. Don't miss it!

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• 4-12-14
  

  What's New in Postwar US Political History (Interview)

  by Matthew Lassiter

  What the latest research shows.

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• 4-12-14
  

  What Happens When You Expose Military Atrocities? People Get Upset (Interview)

  by Nick Turse

  Nick Turse recounts reaction to his book, Kill Anything that Moves:  The Real American War in Vietnam.

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• 4-12-14
  

  Remembering Edmund Morgan (Interview)

  by Rosemarie Zagarri

  One of Edmund Morgan's last students accounts for his tremendous legacy. 

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• 4-11-14
  

  A Visit to Atlanta's National Center for Civil and Human Rights (Interview)

  by Maureen Nutting

  A historian visits the new, and not quite complete, National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.

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• 4-11-14
  

  The State of Pop Culture History (Interview)

  by Jefferson Cowie

  What does Mad Men tell us about American life today?

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• 4-11-14
  

  Immigration and Ethnic History: State of the Field (Interview)

  by Vicki Ruiz

  What's happening in Chicano studies.

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• 4-7-14
  

  The 2014 OAH Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything

  by Rick Shenkman

  Find out what American historians are thinking. 

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• 4-14-14
  

  How a Medieval Knight Solved One of History's Great Crimes

  by Eric Jager

  “Never was there a more treacherous murder!”

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• 4-13-14
  

  The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with Annie Jacobsen About Her Stunning Account

  by 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.

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• 4-2-14
  

  The Fast One James Schlesinger Pulled on the Media

  by Stanley I. Kutler

  James Schlesinger did not thwart possible presidential orders to use military troops or nuclear weapons in Nixon's final days as president.

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• 4-7-14
  

  Are We Giving Cesar Chavez too Much Credit?

  by Frank P. Barajas

  "I am culpable of this rather imperious criticism."

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• 3-31-14
  

  My Shocking Confession: I Love Congress

  by Ray Smock

  Well, former House historian Ray Smock isn't thrilled by THIS Congress, but when examined critically, the institution has had a remarkably effective 225 years of operation.

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• 3-31-14
  

  The Origins of Andrew Napolitano's Lincoln Hatred

  by David Burzillo

  Judge Andrew Napolitano's ugly views on Lincoln and the Civil War draw upon a long history of libertarian arguments.

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• 3-31-14
  

  How a Woman Born into Slavery Helped Build New York City's First African American Research Library

  by Elizabeth Hohl

  At the tail end of Women's History Month, it's worth remembering Victoria Earle Matthews, who lived her life under one principle: history matters.

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• 4-14-14
  

  Sharecropper’s Troubadour

  by Robin Lindley

  University of Washington historian Michael Honey on John Handcox, African American singer and labor activist in the Jim Crow South.

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• 3-24-14
  

  The Four Biggest Libertarian Myths About the Civil War

  by James Oakes

  Andrew Napolitano was peddling snake oil on The Daily Show recently about Lincoln and slavery. Here are the facts.

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• 3-24-14
  

  Nick Kristof Ought to Be Paying Attention to History Camp

  by Elizabeth M. Covart

  The first ever unconference for independent historians proved to be a remarkable success.