historiography

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/10/2020
  

  The Wages of Whiteness (Review Essay)

  Hari Kunzru's review essay examines the current vogue for white antiracism (and antiracist training) through the history of whiteness as a political and academic concept, concluding that many  of the most popular books and multicultural pieties strip the idea of its structural elements and reduce it to a question of personal purification. 

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  9/9/2020
  

  The Interdisciplinarity and Influence of Alan Trachtenberg

  by Jennifer Giuliano and Lauren Tilton

  "The need to interrogate, understand, and even disrupt how we see images is a part of Trachtenberg’s enduring legacy that becomes more important as researchers are distanced from physical archives." The work of Alan Trachtenberg in developing historical methodologies for understanding images is crucial for historians' ability to speak to current affairs.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/24/2020
  

  Rethinking Who and What Get Memorialized

  The notion that history can be rewritten is a powerful one. It starts by taking the pen from the authors we’ve always had — and giving it to someone else.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8/21/2020
  

  Historian Eric Foner: Broken Promises Of Reconstruction Relevant To Today's Racial Justice Movement

  "Our society has never allowed African Americans to accumulate money and assets the way white families have,” Foner said.

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• SOURCE: Society for US Intellectual History
  8/22/2020
  

  Spoiling the Egyptians: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Uses of Racist Scholarship

  by L.D. Burnett

  W.E.B. DuBois recognized that his efforts to write the history of Africa and African peoples would depend on his ability to use sources produced by racists without reproducing their political goals. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/20/2020
  

  The Black Freedom Struggle of the North (Review)

  "'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North' is a major milestone in the growing historical literature on racial discrimination and the civil rights struggle outside the South," writes Joshua Clark Davis.

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• 8/9/2020
  

  Five Strictly Professional Reasons Why Historians Dislike Donald Trump

  by Walter G. Moss

  Historians may dislike Trump for many reasons that apply equally to our fellow Americans. But we also dislike him because he violates so many of the values important to us as historians.

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  7/23/2020
  

  Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and Their Dangerous Myths of American History

  by Abram Van Engen

  "Only when we begin to see the multiplicity and complexity of history can we begin to understand how God moves in it and through it, and how we, in the present, can and should respond—righting wrongs and attempting to shine a light in dark places," writes Abram Van Engen.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  7/25/2020
  

  The New York Times Covers the “Clash of the Historians” at SHEAR

  by John Fea

  An early Americanist reflects on the controversy stirred up by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's virtual plenary and its coverage in the mainstream media, and asks whether these are the battles historians should be fighting right now. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/10/2020
  

  Don't Worry about "Rewriting History": It's Literally What We Historians Do

  by Charlotte Lydia Riley

  People have always reinterpreted and re-evaluated the past. Every time a statue comes down, we learn a little more.

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• SOURCE: University of Illinois Press
  5/27/2020
  

  Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians

  by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow

  The editors of a collection of essays by non-traditional women historians celebrate the impact of the Catherine Prelinger Award (of the Coordinating Council for Women in History), which aided the scholarship published in their book and is supporting a new generation of women historians expanding the scope of the field to address race, disability, indigeneity, and mass incarceration (among other issues).

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  5/18/2020
  

  Baseball History and Rural America

  The study of how baseball evolved, historain David Vaught writes, remains a test of how history is written--from concern with origin moments or attention to ongoing processes of change and development.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  5/18/2020
  

  The Pandemic Has Led to an Outbreak of Terrible Historical Analogies

  The pandemic has given Americans lots to think about, not the least of which are the awful historical analogies and references used to make its worst actors seem valorous. Here are some of the most egregious examples, why they’re absurd, and why they should be taken seriously.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  5/6/2020
  

  Who Killed Truth? Historian Jill Lepore Searches For Answers On New Podcast

  The Harvard professor explores questions such as, "Where did the idea of a fact as an elemental unit of evidence come from? And then, what forces have undermined that over the years and especially recently?”

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/8/2020
  

  World War II in Europe Ended 75 Years Ago—But the World Is Still Fighting Over Who Gets to Say What Happened

  The Polish historian Jan Grabowski is one of many scholars whose work has been challenged and attacked by right-wing nationalists who wish to present a purely heroic version of how Poles acted during World War II. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/2020
  

  The ‘1619 Project’ is Filled with Slovenliness and Ideological Ax-Grinding

  Conservative columnist George Will contends that the 1619 Project undermines trust in journalism by taking on a political project.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/5/2020
  

  What Was Saved

  Sarah Broom's memoir "The Yellow House" reconstructs not only her family’s history in New Orleans but also that larger arc of the black experience in the United States.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  5/5/2020
  

  'Not the Way to do History': Princeton University Historian Blasts 1619 Project as 'Historical Sloppiness' Unworthy of Pulitzer

  Allen Guelzo has been a major critic of the New York Times's "1619 Project" and objects to the projects central essay winning the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. 

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• 5/5/2020
  

  The Pulitzer Prizes Spark Discussion of "Revisionism"

  by HNN Staff

  Nikole Hannah-Jones's Pulitzer Prize has pushed some critics to complain about historical revisionism. Historians discuss how the field works.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
  4/01/2020
  

  Neglected Gems of Urban History

  by Richard Harris

  For two generations, Lampard told urban historians that cities mattered especially, but not only, in economic terms.