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: NYT
  12-6-13
  

  Michael Kammen, Historian of U.S. Psyche, Dies at 77

  Michael Kammen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose scholarly aim was no less than the illumination of the collective American psyche, died on Nov. 29 in Ithaca, N.Y.

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• SOURCE: MLive
  12-5-13
  

  Western Michigan University history professors ask Board of Trustees to investigate provost

  Tensions between Western Michigan University's faculty and provost continue.

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• SOURCE: Cornell Daily Sun
  12-3-13
  

  Faculty Praise, Remember Esteemed Cornell Historian Michael Kammen

  Faculty remembered Kammen as a "gentle, unassuming man."

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• SOURCE: Transitions Online
  12-2-13
  

  Where to now, Ukraine?

  Historian Stanislav Kulchytsky on the tumult in the streets of Kiev.

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• SOURCE: World Bulletin
  12-2013
  

  Malta accused of Muslim history cover-up

  Mark Camilleri, a Maltese historian, has accused the government of attempting to hide the island's 600-year Islamic history.

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• SOURCE: The Nation (Pakistan)
  12-2-13
  

  Historian Mubarak Ali honored in Karachi

  The work of the veteran historian Dr Mubarak Ali was celebrated at the 6th International Urdu Conference.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraph Agency
  12-1-13
  

  David Peleg, Israeli historian and diplomat, dies at 72

  The former ambassador to Poland was 72.

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• SOURCE: Roanoke Times
  12-1-13
  

  National Gallery of Art changes painting name due to Roanoke historian's research

  "The Burial" is now "The Exhumation" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  12-1-13
  

  Noted Texas historian T.R. Fehrenbach dies at age 88 in San Antonio

  Tthe former head of the Texas Historical Commission was 88.

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• SOURCE: Cornell Chronicle
  12-2-13
  

  American historian Michael G. Kammen dies at 77

  Kammen died in Ithaca on November 29 at the age of 77.

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• 11-27-13
  

  The interview that was too hot for the Senate Historical Office

  by HNN staff

  Robert Eugene Baker gives new meaning to the term "oral history."

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• SOURCE: Hattiesburg American
  11-27-13
  

  Oral history project to document oil spill impact

  The University of Southern Mississippi Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage is helming the project.

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• SOURCE: University of Arkansas
  11-26-13
  

  C. Fred Williams, Arkansas historian, dies

  Williams spent more than 40 years at the University of Arkansas.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-26-13
  

  Stephanie Coontz: Marriages divided by class

  Marriage increasingly seen out of reach to all but educated elite.

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• SOURCE: Want China Times
  11-25-13
  

  Historian: Taiwan can use WWII legacy to improve standing with China

  Chiang Kai-shek can still teach a few lessons.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11-18-13
  

  'I Take Long Walks': The Emotional Lives of Holocaust Scholars

  A poignant exchange between Wendy Lower, author of Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, and a Holocaust survivor and scholar.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-15-13
  

  Chinese historian: Xi Jinping a master of "neo-authoritarianism"

  Xiao Gongqin thinks Mr. Xi is very a good thing.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-18-13
  

  History Comes to Life With Tweets From Past

  A Twitter account run by a group of German historians provides hour-by-hour updates on horrors of Kristallnacht.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-19-13
  

  Celtic Paths, Illuminated by a Sundial

  Graham Robb’s theory on Celtic migrations.

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• SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter
  11-18-13
  

  'Team of Rivals' Author Doris Kearns Goodwin Talks New Book, 'Bully Pulpit', Possible Movie (Q&A)

  In "The Bully Pulpit," Goodwin turns her attention to Theodore Roosevelt.