Historians/History

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• 1/7/19
  

  Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's Death. Here's How His Legacy Still Shapes the United States Today.

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  From national parks to corporate regulation, Teddy's ideas surround us. 

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• 1/5/19
  

  What Can Historians Teach The Media In The Era of Trump? 4 Historians Weigh In

  by Kyla Sommers

  “Truth itself is under attack and expertise is suspect." So what role can historians play?

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• 1/5/19
  

  History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed

  by HNN Staff

  What panelists at #AHA19 had to say graduate student labor and organizing on college campuses. 

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• 12/30/2018
  

  Ok, We Returned the Stolen Bells to the Philippines

  by Brian Shott

  But we haven’t yet confronted the awful and complicated history behind the theft.

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• 1/6/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir

  by Erik Moshe

  “I don’t actually think I chose a career in history, it chose me.”

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• 12/22/2018
  

  When We Really Needed an Anti-Lynching Law Congress Wouldn’t Pass It

  by William Loren Katz

  This is the man who proposed the first federal anti-lynching law. It was in 1900.  HR 6963.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  Oh No! The Depressing Truth About the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory Workers

  by Donald Yacovone

  They were slaves made to look like Sambo stereotypes.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  So I Became a Historian—Now I’m Telling How It Worked Out

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  Advice to young people considering history as a major.

• 
• 12/23/2018
  

  We Wanted to Publish an Illustrated History of the Holy Land. We Couldn’t Make Everybody Happy.

  by H. G. M. Williamson

  One compromise was to stop our history in 1918.

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• What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Stacy D. Fahrenthold

  by Erik Moshe

  A historian should have “a willingness to fail frequently, and a commitment to failing a little bit better each time.”

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• 12/15/2018
  

  Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

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• 12/14/2018
  

  75 Years Ago Ernie Pyle Wrote a Tribute to a Dead World War 2 Soldier

  by Gregory Sumner

  It’s still worth remembering.

• 
• 12/15/2018
  

  In Memory of the Man Who Was Identified with the “God Is Dead” Movement

  by Ed Simon

  Reflections on the Death of Thomas J.J. Altizer, the last nonconformist.

• 
• 12/15/2018
  

  Now that the Bush Funeral Is Over with, We Need to Talk Honestly About the End of the Cold War

  by Tarik Cyril Amar

  And what we got wrong.

• 
• 12/23/2018
  

  Farewell

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  An interview with HNN’s founder and publisher Rick Shenkman, who retires at the end of 2018.

• 
• 12-7-2018
  

  History Is Likely to Credit George H. W. Bush with These Two Foreign Policy Accomplishments

  by Joe Renouard

  And they are a really big deal.

• 
• 12/23/2018
  

  Josephine Baker’s Secret Life as a World War II Spy

  by Sherry Jones

  A fiction writer tells this story in a new novel.

• 
• 12-2-18
  

  The Air We Breathe Is Cleaner Because of George H.W. Bush

  by Gavin Benke

  This is something today’s GOP should keep in mind.

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• 1/13/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Carla Pestana

  by Erik Moshe

  She’s toying with writing a book for a popular audience in part to try to make some of the work done in the academy more accessible and interesting to those outside it.

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• 4-2-2006
  

  HNN Doyen: Gordon S. Wood

  by Bonnie Goodman

  What he is famous for.