Historians/History

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• 5/19/19
  

  Thomas Harriot and the lost North Carolina Algonquian Language

  by Robyn Arianrhod

  In this UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, here is the story of a pioneering linguist and ethnographer. 

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• 5/19/19
  

  Remembering Jackie Kennedy for More than Her Fashion Sense

  by Lisa M. Burns

  She was the architect who meticulously crafted President John F. Kennedy’s lasting legacy.

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• 5/12/19
  

  George Mason: Lost Founder

  by William G. Hyland Jr.

  Why George Mason rightly deserves to be considered one of the fathers of our national government. 

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• 5/12/19
  

  The Remarkable History of the Union League Club

  by Michael Hogan

  Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond. 

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• 5/12/19
  

  Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church

  by Quincy D. Newell

  Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.

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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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• 5/12/19
  

  When War Was a Family Affair

  by Walter R. Borneman

  The stories of family members who served on the same Naval ships in World War II. 

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• 5/12/19
  

  In Dalmatia, Distant Pasts Influence the Present

  by Erik Moshe

  The ancient past is usually well-hidden underground. The medieval past rarely makes an appearance. However, in Dalmatia, ancient, medieval and the early modern past are inextricably intertwined, and visible on every corner. 

• 
• 5/14/19
  

  The D-Day Warriors Who Led The Way to Victory in World War ll

  by Alex Kershaw

  An excerpt from The First Wave. 

• 
• 5/5/19
  

  Navassa Island: The U.S.’s 160-year Forgotten Tragedy

  by Ken Lawrence

  Both the U.S. and Haiti claim the island. Here's why its history matters. 

• 
• 5/5/19
  

  An Interview with Historian Michael Adas

  by Tiffany April Griffin

  Adas discusses why he chose to write about the Vietnam War and his advice for young historians. 

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• 5/5/19
  

  Grover Cleveland Bergdoll and the Long Reach of World War I’s Jingoism

  by Dirk Langeveld

  Although it presented an extreme case, the Bergdoll saga demonstrates how the sentiments that had brought about “liberty measles” in 1917 were still alive and well more than two decades later.

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• 5/5/19
  

  A Tale of Two Suffragists: Hazel Hunkins and Maud Wood Park

  by Susan Ware

  Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the right to vote.

• 
• 5/2/19
  

  The Template for the Holocaust- Germany's African Genocide

  by David Carlin

  In the 20th Century’s first genocide, Imperial Germany’s campaign of annihilation provided precedents for the racial ideologies and exterminatory tactics of the Holocaust. 

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• 4/30/19
  

  6 Presidents Who Never Lost an Election

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Of America’s 44 presidents, only six have won every election they have contested. 

• 
• 4/28/19
  

  Aram Goudsouzian: Study History, Then Make It

  by Erik Moshe

  "Nothing is more important" to be a historian "than taking satisfaction in the process."

• 
• 4/28/19
  

  Why FDR Wouldn't Condemn Hitler

  by Rafael Medoff

  A few words from the White House directly taking issue with Hitler’s aggressive actions and persecution of the Jews could have helped alert the public to the Nazi danger. 

• 
• 4/21/19
  

  A History of Huntington Disease and Beyond

  by Robin Lindley

  A Conversation with Pioneering Neurogeneticist Dr. Thomas Bird

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• 4/21/19
  

  Civil War History Brought to Life

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  "What better, than to see in motion, the very people or places you are reading about."

• 
• 4/21/19
  

  We Judge Presidents in part by Who Precedes and Follows Them

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Some Presidents are fortunate to come before or after a President who was not a great success so they seem like a better president in comparison. Others follow and precede a President who was perceived as successful, dimming their reputation.