interviews

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• SOURCE: The Arts Fuse
  5/25/2020
  

  Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”

  "The biggest argument, though, and the one into which I poured my best intellectual energy, was the argument at the center of the book: that politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy."

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• 4/12/2020
  

  HNN's Robin Lindley Interviews Medical Historian Frank Snowden

  by Robin Lindley

  Professor Frank Snowden discusses the situation in Italy, the progress of COVID-19 and governments' responses to it, and his career researching the history of epidemics.  

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• 4/12/2020
  

  "My Entire Career has Led Me to this Project": HNN Interviews Kevin Kruse

  by Chelsea Connolly and Hana Hancock

  "This pandemic is global in scale and personal in impact, and as a result, it’s touching and transforming virtually every topic that historians have studied. We have a duty to share our insights with the larger world. They’re interested in what we have to say. (And, let’s remember, most of them are stuck at home looking for something to read!)"

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/23/20
  

  Historian Edward Achorn Interviewed by the NY Times About His Book Every Drop of Blood

  24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Mag
  2/4/20
  

  Karin Wulf Interviews Alexis Coe About Her Cheeky New George Washington Biography

  by Karin Wulf

  Alexis Coe’s cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/3/19
  

  ‘Well Worth Saving’

  by Scott Jaschik

  Laurel Leff discusses her book on the failure of American universities to rescue scholars seeking to flee Nazi Germany.

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• 11/24/19
  

  Investigating Technology and the Remaking of America

  by Robin Lindley

  A conversation with Acclaimed History Professor Margaret O’Mara on Her Career and Her Groundbreaking New Book on Silicon Valley

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• SOURCE: World Wide Socialist Web
  11/18/19
  

  An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project

  "Collectively their work has prompted some very strong criticism from scholars in the field. My concern is that by avoiding some of the basic analytical questions, most of the scholars have backed into a neo-liberal economic interpretation of slavery."

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• 11/17/19
  

  The Used Bookstore Find that Inspired A History of Dress and Fashion

  by Erik Moshe

  Linda Przybyszewski on her work as a historian--including her history of women's fashion and dressmaking. 

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• 11/17/19
  

  The History of Personal Hygiene: An Interview with Peter Ward

  by Aleisha Smith

  "The history of the unremarkable and the ordinary have an importance of their own, one that can easily surpass the history of greatness in any of its many forms."

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• 11/10/19
  

  The Overlooked Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

  by Robin Lindley

  A Conversation with Acclaimed History Professor Kate Brown on Her Groundbreaking Book Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

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• SOURCE: New Books Network
  9/9/19
  

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Derek Litvak Interviews Amanda L. Tyler

  by Derek Litvak

  Habeas Corpus in Wartime is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America.

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• 9/8/19
  

  Sir Ian Kershaw on His Latest Book, Brexit, and the Future of Europe

  by David O’Connor

  "The EU has come a long way and, as Brexit shows, the networks built up over previous decades are extremely complex."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/4/19
  

  Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Interviews LaShawn Harris and Max Felker-Kantor

  by AAIHS Editors

  Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

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• 7/21/19
  

  The Power of Microhistory: An Interview with Bancroft Prize Winner Douglas Winiarski

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  "I think my book will resonate with readers attuned to the politics of religious difference and the troubling connections between religion and violence in our own times."

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• 5/12/19
  

  Carolyn Forché: Bearing Witness to the Wounds of History

  by Robin Lindley

  A Conversation with Renowned Poet and Human Rights Activist Carolyn Forché on Her New Memoir, Mass Trauma, History, and the Plight of Refugees Today.

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/20/19
  

  Alice Kessler-Harris: Becoming a Feminist, Becoming a Labor Historian

  by Lara Vapnek

  For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.

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• 3/24/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Environmental Historian Eleonora Rohland

  by Erik Moshe

  “History as a discipline needs to renew itself, needs to reassert or renegotiate its place in society, needs to be vocal on political abuses of terminology or populist and racist reinterpretations of historical events.”

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• 3/10/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Civil War Historian Anne Sarah Rubin

  by Erik Moshe

  “To hold your own book is to have achieved something permanent in an ephemeral world.”

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• 2/16/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Nikki Taylor

  by Erik Moshe

  "We must be able to see and write about the humanity in both our heroes and villains."