interviews

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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."

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• 2/24/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Russianist Historian Katherine Antonova

  by Erik Moshe

  A historian sees what happened in the past not as a set story, but as disparate bits of evidence that might or might not cohere enough to answer our questions.

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• 1-2-14
  

  AHA executive director Jim Grossman on what's new at #aha2014 [VIDEO]

  History News Network editor David Austin Walsh sat down with AHA executive director Jim Grossman at the Wardman Park Marriott on New Year's Day to talk about the upcoming annual meeting

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• 12-6-13
  

  Mandela's Lasting Legacy: An Interview with Judith Byfield

  by David Austin Walsh

  Cornell professor Judith Byfield on Nelson Mandela's passing.

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• SOURCE: U-T San Diego
  11-16-13
  

  Ulysses S. Grant gets his due: Interview with H.W. Brands

  Grant's reputation continues to rise.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10-23-13
  

  A. Scott Berg defines Woodrow Wilson

  "We live very much in a world Woodrow Wilson created."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10-21-13
  

  A Conversation With: Historian Ramachandra Guha

  Ramachandra Guha is one of India’s foremost public intellectuals and historians. “Gandhi Before India,” his first volume of a two-part biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, was published in India earlier this month.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  10-17-13
  

  The Man Who Made America: Simon Winchester Talks New Book

  by Eric Herschthal

  Simon Winchester's "The Men Who United the States" tells the nation’s history through the creation of its infrastructure.

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• James Dawes: Why Do People Commit Atrocities? (INTERVIEW)

  by Robin Lindley

  A Japanese soldier poses with the head of a Chinese prisoner.The human capacity to injure other people is very great precisely because our capacity to imagine other people is very small.--Elizabeth Scarry, For Love of Country?Most Americans know little of Japanese war crimes perpetrated in China during the Second World War. In the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Japanese troops tortured, raped and murdered Chinese men, women and children, as Japanese scientists conducted horrific medical procedures on living human subjects at facilities such as the notorious Unit 731, a covert research center for biological and chemical experimentation in northeast China.

• SOURCE: The Nation
  8-8-13
  

  Jon Wiener interviews Dan Savage for The Nation

  Jon Wiener teaches US history at UC Irvine.Dan Savage started the “It Gets Better” project in 2010, with a short video online addressed to gay, lesbian, bi and transgender young people facing harassment, letting them know that, yes, it gets better.  Today more than 50,000 people have posted videos at ItGetsBetter.org, which have been viewed more than 50 million times.  He’s also a best-selling author whose new book is American Savage.  He lives in Seattle with his husband, Terry, and their 15-year-old son, D.J. Jon Wiener: How did you feel when you first heard the news that the Supreme Court had overruled DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act that had defined marriage as limited to two people of the opposite sex?  I’m morbid, so my first thought was ‘I can die now.’Dan Savage: You didn’t think “now we can live happily ever after”?

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• 8-5-13
  

  Jennifer Polk: "Recent PhDs Need to Have Their Confidence Boosted"

  by David Austin Walsh

  The academc job market remains in the doldrums. Recent PhDs continue to outstrip new positions, and the adjunctification of higher ed. in general -- and historians in particular -- continues unabated. It's not surprising, then, that a growing contingent of recent PhDs are standing athwart academic history yelling 'stop!'

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• 8-5-13
  

  Richard A. Baker: If You Think the Senate is Dysfunctional Now, Wait Until After the Nuclear Option (INTERVIEW)

  by David Austin Walsh

  The former official historian of the US Senate puts the current dysfunction into perspective.