Historians in the News

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3/13/19
  

  Medgar Evers' home established as a national monument in Jackson

  “Medgar and Myrlie Evers are heroes whose contributions to the advancement of civil rights in Mississippi and our nation cannot be overstated,” U.S. Sen Roger Wicker said in a statement. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  3/13/19
  

  MIT Historian Kate Brown Alleges United Nations Scientific Cover-Up Of Death And Disease Toll From Chernobyl

  In her new book, Dr. Brown alleges that scientists and officials representing the United Nations, the Red Cross, and the World Health Organization covered up evidence that hundreds of thousands of people died from radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/17/19
  

  Atlanta’s Civil War Monument, Minus the Pro-Confederate Bunkum

  A new exhibition of a gigantic painting uses historical fact to dispel Lost Cause mythology.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/19
  

  In the age of distraction, one small publisher keeps local history alive in sepia tones

  For more than two decades, one small publisher far from New York has been quietly rescuing remnants of history from the flames of oblivion. 

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• SOURCE: History Extra
  3/18/19
  

  Historians Weigh In: Are we returning to an age of political extremes?

  Seven leading historians assess whether we are witnessing the dawn of a new era of extremism.

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• SOURCE: The Red and Black
  3/19/19
  

  Studying secret society: Alisa Luxenberg explores history of Freemasons with help of Special Collections Libraries

   Luxenberg is developing a course on the history of Freemasonry, focusing on Freemasons in Georgia and the Athens area.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  John Richardson, Art Historian and Picasso Biographer, Is Dead at 95

  A celebrated raconteur, Mr. Richardson was described by W magazine as “the man all New York wants to sit beside at dinner."

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• SOURCE: Diverse Education
  3/1219
  

  Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham: Shaping a Legacy Through History

  “History, for me, is a way to talk not just about the past, but to use the past for inspiration, for information, for a lot of different things,” says Higginbotham.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/13/19
  

  Vietnam’s Communist Party Ousts Historian Who Criticized Its China Policy

  The historian Tran Duc Anh Son said that Vietnam has irrefutable claims to islands in the South China Sea that China claims as its own.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  3/8/19
  

  Historians Keisha N. Blain and Daina Ramey Berry Featured in Politico Article on the Biggest Problems Women Face Today

  The historians were featured alongside Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and more. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  The Missouri Museum That Churchill Built

  The exhibition focuses on Churchill’s journey, but it builds context through immersive galleries of World War I trenches, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the London Blitz.

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• SOURCE: CSU History Department
  3/13/19
  

  WATCH LIVE ONLINE: From Silent Sam to Phnom Pehn: Monuments and Memorials in History and Myth

  Information on a live online history lecture. Watch on March 13th!

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/8/19
  

  Whose History? Scholars and Students Attempt to Correct Years of Archival Neglect at Johns Hopkins

  Ideally the archive won't just serve the institution, but will face outward, toward the greater community. 

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• SOURCE: Humanities Indicators
  Accessed 3/11/19
  

  New Report Documents the State of History at Two-Year Colleges

  The valuable information helps us understand the state of history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/7/19
  

  Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, pioneer of women’s studies, dies at 98

  In her research and teaching, she pored over the records left by women who received little if any public attention during their lives but whose diaries, letters and other writings vividly revealed the eras in which they lived.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  3/7/19
  

  American Civil War Museum CEO Christy Coleman Profiled in Forbes

  “To paraphrase Harriett Tubman,” she says, “you want change in your life, don't be afraid to trouble the waters.”

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Education
  3/6/19
  

  Historian Kevin Gannon's Teachable Moment

  Professor at university Dinesh D'Souza says "nobody's heard of" instructs him on the mission of smaller, access-oriented private institutions.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/6/19
  

  Historian Nick Este's New Book Puts Standing Rock in In Broader Native American Story

  Modern Indigenous American history is a history of resistance.

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• SOURCE: Them
  3/5/19
  

  Historian Hugh Ryan's New Book Documents the Queer History of Brooklyn

  by Hugh Ryan

  From a gay Nazi spy sex scandal to its WWII antifascist queer intelligentsia scene, a new book reveals that Brooklyn has always been a surprisingly queer haven.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/3/`9
  

  Two prizewinning books detail slavery in the north: Washington’s fugitive, Detroit’s forgotten crime

  The authors detail the life of a woman who refused to be a possession of the nation’s first president and the Michigan city’s troubled past.