Historians/History

11/25/18

Challenges Historians Face in Africa Today: An Interview With Joseph K. Adjaye

by Erik Moshe

"The discipline of history in Africa is facing a crisis in that it is attracting fewer and fewer students."

10/28/18

Czechs Are Celebrating Their Country’s Centennial. We Should, Too.

by Daniel E. Miller

Democracy prevailed there while it’s been dying elsewhere.

12/2/18

What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Crystal A. deGregory

by Erik Moshe

“A good historian must be very curious, sufficiently gracious, and honestly, a little nosey too.”

11/9/18

Woodrow Wilson Is Misremembered. This Has Warped Our Foreign Policy for a Century.

by Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov

How idealistic was he, really?

11/4/18

FDR Gets Credit for His Response to Kristallnacht. He Shouldn’t.

by Rafael Medoff

80 years after the horrific events of Kristallnacht it’s time to acknowledge his inadequate response.

May 14, 2006

History Doyen: Alonzo L. Hamby

by Bonnie Goodman

What he's famous for.

10/21/18

Remember When the Dodgers and Giants Moved West?

by Lincoln Mitchell

This was one of the consequences.

10/28/18

What Happened When Aaron Burr, Late in Life, Encountered this Statue of Alexander Hamilton

by Donald Yacovone

When memory and history meet, sometimes irony is the result.

11/4/18

This Makes Us Susceptible to Demagoguery

by Joseph Kelly

How the “we’re the chosen people” narrative makes us susceptible to demagogues.

12/30/2018

Thomas Jefferson’s Bizarre Fear of Monarchism (and Hume)

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Why Hume was much more “liberal” than Jefferson.

11/18/18

Meet the Nigerian Historian Who Wants to Recreate Grassroots Communities

by Erik Moshe

When Toyin Falola retires, he wants to mobilize grassroots communities and villages to take charge of their lives in positive ways: by sharing laughter and generosity, independent of one’s wealth, education, or success.

10/21/18

Even “Good Statues” Have Their Problems

by Alan Singer

A case in point.

10/14/18

Why Did Women Win the Right to Vote in Colorado in the 19th Century?

by Jennifer Frost

They did it by organizing. There’s a lesson for us today in the 21st century.

11/4/18

Christianity Is to Blame for the Bigoted Purposes to Which It’s Being Put, but ...

by Steve Patterson

There's evidence this was Christianity's original creed: "There is no Jew or Greek; there is no slave or free; there is no male and female, for you are all one.”