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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• 3-10-14
  

  Five Things You Need to Know to be a Better Digital Preservationist

  by Victoria Torres

  Handy tips for the aspiring archivist/digital preservationist. (Increasingly, they're becoming one and the same!)

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-5-14
  

  Book on Losing British Generals Wins American History Prize

  Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy will be feted at a black-tie gala in April for his book "The Men Who Lost America."

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• SOURCE: Stanford News
  3-4-14
  

  Stanford scholar explores civil rights revolution's positive impact on the South's economy

  Economic historian Gavin Wright's latest research illustrates how the civil rights revolution of the 1960s achieved something rarely seen in social revolutions: economic improvements that stimulated growth for an entire region.

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  3-4-14
  

  Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Amazon's Tentacular Reach

  The eminent historian appeared on WGBH Boston.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Tar Heel
  3-2-14
  

  Q&A with historian and author Nick Turse

  The UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper talks with the author of "Kill Anything That Moves."

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• SOURCE: The Advocate
  3-4-14
  

  Historian mentioned at Oscars for work

  Sue Eakin was one of the most important figures in the preservation of "12 Years a Slave."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2-28-14
  

  U. of Richmond’s Ayers will step down in 2015

  Ayers, 61, a Civil War historian, has presided at the 4,130-student university since July 2007

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-4-14
  

  Justin Kaplan, Bartlett’s editor, dead at 88

  Kaplan, a longtime professor at Harvard University, was also the author of several acclaimed literary biographies.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-4-14
  

  He Cried Out ‘Black Power,’ Then Left for Africa

  Peniel E. Joseph on his biography of Stokely Carmichael.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-1-14
  

  Tensions at the New Republic revealed in open email to historian

  Leon Wieseltier unloads on John Judis to Ron Radosh.

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• 2-27-14
  

  With State Funding Drying Up, Museums and Archives Turn to the Private Sector

  by Victoria Torres

  Major corporations have stepped into the gap as federal and state arts and humanities budgets are slashed.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Princetonian
  2-25-14
  

  MIT professor argues colleges reinforced slavery

  MIT history professor Craig Steven Wilder argued that colleges were responsible for reinforcing slavery in antebellum America.

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• 2-25-15
  

  John Lewis Gaddis and other Cold War historians are back in demand

  by HNN Staff

  Russianists are once again the talk of the town.

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• SOURCE: Reddit
  2-24-14
  

  James McPherson to do AMA in /r/AskHistorians on Reddit Friday, Feb. 28 at 1:30pm Eastern

  Set your calendars!

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-24-14
  

  Lichtman: Best historical parallel for 2014 is 1938

  “It’s very uncommon to challenge incumbents — period. So this is truly unusual.”

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• SOURCE: Laughing Squid
  2-21-14
  

  Behind the Scenes at the U.S. Army Center of Military History

  BuzzFeed recently toured the U.S. Army Center of Miulitary History.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-21-14
  

  Ask A Historian: How Accurate Is 'Downton Abbey'?

  SPOILER ALERT: Don't read if you haven't already seen Season 4.

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• SOURCE: Washington Times
  2-20-14
  

  Army historian says report on deadly Afghan battle was altered to absolve faulty gun

  Survivors of bloody battle report M4 jams.

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• SOURCE: University of Michigan Record
  2-23-14
  

  Stephen J. Tonsor III, UMich prof., dies at 90

  Tonsor taught German history.

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• SOURCE: South Coast Today
  2-19-14
  

  Presidential palates: Culinary historian shares insights on White House cuisine

  If the walls of the White House kitchens could talk, they'd probably reveal some fascinating secrets about our presidents and their eating habits.