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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• 4-15-14
  

  She Came All the Way from Melbourne to Attend the OAH

  by HNN Editor

  Meet Clare Corbould!

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• 4-15-14
  

  The 7 Most Popular HNN Videos from the 2014 OAH

  by HNN Editor

  Limerick, Kerber, Zelizer and more!

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• SOURCE: Overland
  4-14-14
  

  Jesse Lemisch’s up-from-below history is still strikingly original

  Passionate, strident, scholarly and forensic, the Lemisch paper detailed the ways leading American historians variously claimed political neutrality even as they were deeply engaged as conservatives or as liberals in the politics of post-war USA, with their historical writings part of and reflecting this engagement.

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• SOURCE: UVA Today
  4-14-14
  

  U.Va. Historian Alan Taylor Wins 2014 Pulitzer for Book on Slaves and War -- His second Pulitzer!

  The Pulitzer committee’s citation calls the book “a meticulous and insightful account of why runaway slaves in the colonial era were drawn to the British side as potential liberators.”

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• SOURCE: The Seattle Times
  4-10-14
  

  UW Professor Stephanie Camp, 46, feminist historian, dies

  Stephanie Camp, a noted feminist historian at the University of Washington whose work has been widely praised, died April 2.

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• SOURCE: Daily Mail
  4-15-14
  

  Italian forces in WW2 were not soft and Mussolini wasn't a clown, British historian claims

  The historian says that Benito Mussolini was Adolf Hitler's 'role model'

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  4-13-14
  

  Historian 'all-stars' honor Sheldon Hackney

  'Dixie Redux' essayists speak of their renowned mentor and colleague.

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• 4-15-14
  

  Pulitzer Finalists 2014 include ...

  Eric Schlosser and Jacqueline Jones are Pulitzer finalists.

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• SOURCE: The World Post
  4-15-14
  

  Niall Ferguson says our politicians are failing us

  As a historian, academic and entrepreneur, Ferguson wants governments to start communicating clearly with people, urging governments to "Get real and stop talking in a language no one listens to or understands."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4-13-14
  

  To Encourage Tolerance, a Palestinian Professor Once Trained as a Guerrilla Teaches the Holocaust

  Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is an unlikely advocate for peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  3-14-14
  

  Daniel Pipes says Turkey’s Erdogan is making mistake after mistake

  An interview with Daniel pipes regarding recent developments in Turkey.

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• 4-12-14
  

  The OAH is in the black and membership's stabilized

  by Rick Shenkman

  The membership has stabilized at around 8,000 members. 

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• 4-13-14
  

  Day 4: Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians

  by Rick Shenkman

  The final day!

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• 4-12-14
  

  Day 3: Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians

  by Rick Shenkman

  A president, a president-elect, and a future president make news. 

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• 4-12-14
  

  The New President of the OAH Explains Why Next Year's Convention Is About Taboos (Interview)

  by Patricia Limerick

  Her work has been in areas previously considered taboo, so she thought, why not let the OAH share in the fun. 

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• 4-12-14
  

  Can You Really Design an OAH Meeting that Makes Everybody Happy? (Interview)

  by Rosemarie Zagarri

  It was easier in the old days.

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• 4-11-14
  

  Day 2: Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians

  by Rick Shenkman

  The second full day of OAH 2014!

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• 4-10-14
  

  How Come HNN's Not Videotaping a Lot of Sessions This Year?

  by Rick Shenkman

  New rules hamper our ability to cover the convention. 

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• 4-10-14
  

  Day 1: Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians

  by Rick Shenkman

  What happened on the first full day of the OAH in Atlanta. 

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• SOURCE: KCET
  4-9-14
  

  A Woman of the Woods: Susan R. Schrepfer, 1941-2014

  Susan Schrepfer, who died on March, taught several generations of environmental historians how to see the forest and the trees.