Historians in the News

Heather Cox Richardson thinks we're at an inflection point in the Trump scandal

by Heather Cox Richardson

"[T]his moment is a crisis for American democracy, perhaps THE crisis for American democracy."

Heather Ann Thompson exposes what how a South Carolina prison riot really went down

by Heather Ann Thompson

In an article in the NYT she shared the stories inmates risked their lives to tell her about riot at Lee Correctional Institution that left seven dead.

Oxford historians come to defense of historian accused of subversion in Singapore

Thum Ping Tji got into trouble for saying that "historically, there has only been one body that has peddled falsehoods — the People's Action Party (PAP) Government.”

Everett Fahy, Museum Authority on European Painting, Is Dead at 77

Fahy was a prominent historian of Florentine painters from the late 15th and early 16th centuries who joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a young curator and left to run the Frick Collection before returning to the Met as its chairman of European paintings.

Conservative’s complaint? Liberals have taken over the writing of textbooks

by Stanley Kurtz

"The most underappreciated political story of our time is the changing content of K-12 textbooks in history, civics, social studies, and related subjects.” – National Review’s Stanley Kurz

Trade wars can be ‘fantastically disruptive,’ the IMF’s historian warns

Princeton’s Harold James says the history lesson is clear.

"Antisemitic Views in Germany Often Remain Unchallenged”

That’s the conclusion of historian Gunther Jikeli.

Author Kevin J. Hayes Wins 2018 George Washington Prize of $50K

He's the author of the new book, "George Washington: A Life in Books."

Scholar says she had to stop researching Henry James to write a history book about the origins of Trumpism

Professor Sarah Churchwell traced Trump’s ideas to the KKK and eugenics.

Douglas Brinkley shares insight on Bob Dylan Archives in Tulsa

The historian is writing a book about the poet/singer.

Kent State’s controversial Julio Pino pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators

He’s putting in for early retirement as the school moves to fire him.

NYU’s James Fraser find himself in a rightwing vortex after Fox News attacks his textbook

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Selective quotes taken from the book out of context left a warper impression.

Garry Wills hails Jimmy Carter in a New York Times article blasting the religious right

by Garry Wills

"The religious right has long been not a religion but an ideology.” – Garry Wills

A historian of race descended from slaveholders confronts his own family’s legacy

by William Horne

"There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.” – William Horne

Historian Erik Loomis makes the case for a federal jobs guarantee

by Erik Loomis

Resurrecting Humphrey-Hawkins can help pre-empt a technology crisis and even future labor dislocation from globalization.

Michael Beschloss says this isn't the most politically divisive time in America

The political climate after the Revolutionary War was much more polarized, and so were the environments during and after the Civil War and during and after the Civil Rights era, including the Vietnam War.

This is what happened when a historian with a rural background wrote favorably about gun control in the Washington Post

by Nathan Wuertenberg

He was subjected to anti-Semitic diatribes from people who denied he represented rural America.

Is Economics Going Back To The 1800s? Maybe So.

by Simon Constable

Economics historian Robert Wright says three long-discredited ideas  –  Tariffs, the Gold Standard, and Slavery as an engine of economic development  –  are now back in fashion (to a certain extent).

Historian: Why destroying archives is never a good idea

by Dora Vargha

Case in point: What Britain did with files showing records from Caribbean immigrants.

Feds charge controversial Kent State University professor Julio Pino with lying to FBI

The federal charge against him appears to stem from an FBI investigation into threats made by a St. Louis man against a family court judge.