New perspectives on how history is made
Understanding the past involves mental stamina and breadth
From national parks to corporate regulation, Teddy's ideas surround us.
“Truth itself is under attack and expertise is suspect." So what role can historians play?
What panelists at #AHA19 had to say graduate student labor and organizing on college campuses.
But we haven’t yet confronted the awful and complicated history behind the theft.
“I don’t actually think I chose a career in history, it chose me.”
This is the man who proposed the first federal anti-lynching law. It was in 1900. HR 6963.
They were slaves made to look like Sambo stereotypes.
Advice to young people considering history as a major.
One compromise was to stop our history in 1918.
A historian should have “a willingness to fail frequently, and a commitment to failing a little bit better each time.”
The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.
It’s still worth remembering.
Reflections on the Death of Thomas J.J. Altizer, the last nonconformist.
And what we got wrong.
An interview with HNN’s founder and publisher Rick Shenkman, who retires at the end of 2018.
And they are a really big deal.
An interview with the fascinating Merrick Posnansky at age 87.
A fiction writer tells this story in a new novel.
This is something today’s GOP should keep in mind.
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