Historians/History

Congressional Research Service (CRS): Studies Helpful to Historians by Stephen Bowden

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Old Glory: Patriotic Symbol? by Rick Shenkman

President Bush and History by Mark Nevin

Spies Who May or May Not Exist: The 1948 Hiss-Chambers U.S. Spy Trial by Mark Weisenmiller

The Myth That “Eight Battleships Were Sunk” At Pearl Harbor by Richard K. Neumann Jr.

What's with the Silence About Amerigo Vespucci? by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto


Week of November 23, 2009

Thanksgiving Mythology Began with the First Thanksgiving by William Loren Katz

Week of November 16, 2009

It's Oh So Easy to Forget the Pioneers in Women's Rights by Sally G. McMillen

Week of November 9, 2009

Encounters with the History of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre

The Civil Rights-Black Power Nexus in African American History by Kwasi Konadu

Why 1808 Marked a Pivotal Moment in US History by Lacy Ford          

Week of November 2, 2009

20 Years Later: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Legacy of Erich Honecker by Jonathan Tremblay

Reflections on Cambridge by Alan MacFarlane

The Role of Turkish Diplomats in Saving Turkish Jews in France: 1940-1944 by Arnold Reisman

What Studying the Women in the Founders' Lives Reveals by Thomas Fleming

Week of October 19, 2009

History Handed George W. Bush Greatness on a Platter, but He Kicked It Aside by John Edward Philips

The Woman Who Attempted to Etch Herself into the History of the Cuban Revolution by Katrina Gulliver

Why It's Time to Write Wives into the Story of the Civil War by Carol Berkin

Week of October 12, 2009

Affidavit of Robert Proctor

Conquering the Demons from the Holocaust by Natan P.F. Kellermann

Happy Birthday ER! by Nancy Shear

Plaintiffs’ Motion For Reconsideration of Order Overruling Objections To Subpoena And For Protective Order Concerning Unpublished Manuscript [by Robert Proctor]

The Unknown Connection between General David Petraeus and Harry Truman by Ryan Forman

Week of October 5, 2009

David Underdown: A Selective Retrospective by Brian Cowan

Misremembering Martin Luther King by Simon Balto

The Madhouse of Colonial Williamsburg: An Interview With Shomer Zwelling by Priscilla Hart

What Happens to the Papers of Dead Historians? by David Liebers

Why The Return To Zion? The Jewish Connection To The Land of Israel by Alex Grobman

Week of September 28, 2009

The 1990s as History by William O'Neill

The New Relevance of Friedrich Engels: An Interview with Tristram Hunt by Aaron Leonard

Was William Calley a Scapegoat? by Gary Kulik

When the Rabbis Marched on Washington by Alex Grobman

Week of September 21, 2009

A Young Palestinian’s Diary by Kimberly Katz

California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963: An Interview With Kevin Starr by Aaron Leonard

Have You Used an iPhone History App? by David Walsh

Tweeting History by Christine Kelly

Week of September 14, 2009

Judging Henry Hudson by Peter Mancall

Norman Borlaug's Complicated Legacy by Nick Cullather

Walden Woods Was a Black Space Before It Was a Green Space by Elise Lemire

Was Henry Hudson a Spy? by Douglas Hunter

Week of September 7, 2009

The American Revolutionary War Hero U.S. Historians Have Ignored by Alex Storozynski

Week of August 31, 2009

Distorting the Holocaust: Why Numbers Matter by Alex Grobman

Long Ago: A Total War in the Pacific Came to an Unimaginable End by Vaughn Davis Bornet

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