Historians/History

Historians Make too Much of This Document

by David O. Stewart

It’s George Washington’s Rules of Civility.

What America Keeps Forgetting About Robert E. Lee

by John Reeves

He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him.

Why It Mattered that Lawyers Dominated Politics on the Eve of the Civil War and After

by Peter Charles Hoffer

The Civil War lawyers in peace did what the Civil War lawyers in war had yearned to do— knit the nation together in obedience to law.

The Napoleon the French Turned Their Backs On

by Alan Strauss-Schom

Why Napoleon III deserves their gratitude.

The Great Black Abolitionist the World Forgot

by Jared A. Brock

His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?

They Once Were the Future, then the Lowell, Massachusetts Textile Mills Went Out of Business

by Robert Weible

But they weren’t forgotten.

Did His Wife Doom His Monarchy?

by C.W. Gortner

100 years later we can see more clearly how the Romanov dynasty came to an end 100 years ago.

The Making of the Führer

by Paul Ham

How the Great War spawned a tyrant.

When the Holocaust Came to the Middle East

by Edwin Black

Why the UN recognized this event (known as the Farhud) and why it’s important.

The Pulitzer's Gentlemen's Agreement

by Philip Nobile

An open letter to the Pulitzer Board about its indifference to Alex Haley’s "deliberate deception" in his prize-winning "Roots."

Why Isn’t Congress Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Memorial Day?

by Ed Hooper

It is after all arguably our most sacred holiday.

Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History

by Chris Riback

There was really no way for the city of New Orleans to prepare itself for the next 300 years without dealing with its Confederate statues, he says in an interview.

Edith Sheffer's Amazing Book, "Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna"

by Jonathan Rose

The appalling story behind the man Asperger’s is named for.

When Mexico Feared American Immigrants: An Interview with UCLA’s Steve Aron

by James Thornton Harris

The historian’s next book is “Can We All Get Along: An Alternative History of the American West.”

Old Lions Department: An Interview with the Africanist Joseph C. Miller at 78

by Erik Moshe

How did Miller ever become an Africanist in the first place? By mistake, he says.

Islamic Spain Ended in the 15th Century and We Still Can’t Agree If It Was a Paradise or Hell?

by Brian Catlos

Even historians can’t agree.

I Wrote a Textbook. “Fox and Friends” Turned Me into a Villain.

by James W. Fraser

“I worry we could be entering a time in which students in some districts will read pro-Trump books and students in other districts will read anti-Trump books.”

Was a Tulane Psychiatrist Described by Some as a Monster a Victim of Presentism?

by Robin Lindley

His biographer, Lone Frank, thinks so, as she explains in this revealing interview.

Old Lions Department: Architectural Historian Albert Schmidt at 92

by Erik Moshe

His daily schedule? He gets up early, and starts working at 5:30-6:00 AM on his research papers.

HNN's Student Research Paper Contest: And the Winner Is ....

by David L. O'Connor

Ibrahim Mammodov of Brooklyn Technical High School in New York for his paper, "Zoroastrian Revivalism and the Rise and Fall of the Khurramite Movement."