Historians in the News

Slain Portland history teacher had planned to move, start over just before his death

Peter John formerly taught at UC San Diego, Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash., Linfield College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland

70 years after Hungarian Holocaust, historian protests planned memorial

Randolph L. Braham chose to return an award—the Medium Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic—that he received from the Hungarian government in 2011

Harvard historian Nancy Koehn on the ever-evolving Gloria Steinem

The Harvard prof. explains Steinem's enduring appeal.

Leading Russian historian sacked for comparing Ukraine invasion to Sudetenland

Andrei Zubov was fired from his job as a history professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Holocaust-Denier David Irving makes $5,000 selling lock of Hitler’s hair

Need a lock of Hitler’s hair? Who you gonna call? (David Irving, apparently.)

George Chauncey: “‘Homosexual’ has the ring of ‘colored’ now"

That five-syllable word has never been more loaded, more deliberately used and, to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more pejorative.

The Historical Becomes Personal

Simon Schama on the making of ‘The Story of the Jews.’

Jesse Lemisch's "Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession" Now Available Free Online

"Present-Mindedness Revisited: Anti-Radicalism as a Goal of American Historical Writing Since World War II" republished.

Stanford-developed history lessons for grades 6-12 adopted worldwide

"Reading Like a Historian," a free online curriculum from the Stanford History Education Group, surpasses 1 million downloads.

Diplomatic historian and foreign policy scholar Richard Ullman dies

Ullman was one of the leading diplomatic historians of the Cold War.

Gettysburg book wins $50,000 history prize

Allen C. Guelzo's "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion" has received the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History

President Xi Jinping's First Year In Review: Nationalism "Worrisome," Web Less Open

What risks are ahead for China’s relations with the U.S. and its own neighbors?

Manisha Sinha: Judge Andrew Napolitano is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong about Lincoln and the Civil War [VIDEO]

by David Austin Walsh

The University of Massachusetts historian went on "The Daily Show" last week to rebut Napolitano's claim that Lincoln could have prevented the Civil War by buying up all the slaves.

Simon Schama interviewed by Stephen Colbert (Video)

Historian Simon Schama discusses "The Story of the Jews," his PBS documentary exploring Jewish history from 1000 B.C. to 1492.

The Jews, a History in So Many, Many Words

Simon Schama’s "The Story of the Jews."

Rutgers historian Rudy Bell leads protest against Condoleezza Rice speaking at commencement

Bell says that Rice's alleged involvement in drafting "enhanced interrogation techniques" under President Bush makes her an inappropriate choice.

Islamic history scholar Michael Cook wins Holberg Prize

Cook's works on Muhammad and early Islamic theology have become classics

Prolific Alaskan Historian, Author, UAF Professor Claus-M. Naske Passes at Age 78

Naske wrote or co-authored a dozen books about Alaskan history.

Historian Fernando Prado on quest to find remains of Cervantes

If he doesn't find the remains, "I'll eat the Bible."

Historian shines a light on the dark heart of Australia's nationhood

Henry Reynolds says the frontier war – his term for the violent dispossession of Indigenous Australians – raises questions of global importance about the ownership of an entire continent.