Historians in the News

Conservatives are now taking aim at the AP test in European history

"The new curriculum for the Advanced Placement European History test hides the role of Christianity in European history, and also hides Islam’s violent conquests in Europe and its tradition of jihad."

Manisha Sinha says gun control advocates can learn plenty from Abolitionists

Like abolitionists, gun control advocates should pick concrete fights they can win, she says in an interview.

Historian: Medievalists should stop talking about Game of Thrones

by Philippa Byrne

Why? They have to distort history when they do so. And Game of Thrones isn’t about a real place or time.

History teacher chides textbooks for ignoring the history of the Civil Rights Movement after 1965

by Adam Sanchez

NYC school teacher Adam Sanchez says that textbooks that focus on the Brown decision and the Voting Rights Act tell students that structural racism is a relic of the past.

Former Israeli ambassador: Bernard Lewis proved you can be a Zionist and a great historian of Islam

by Itamar Rabinovich

Itamar Rabinovich says Bernard Lewis shows how wrong Edward Said was.

Garry Wills says we won’t do anything about guns for one simple reason

by Garry Wills

We are captive to the gun

Ron Chernow’s Hamilton is suited to the times, but leaves a lot out

by Andrew M. Schocket

So does the musical on which it’s based.

What Historians Are Saying on Social Media About the Orlando Massacre

Some are focusing on the shooter, others on the victims and still others on our reaction.

Ken Burns Calls Trump ‘Insult To Our History’ At Stanford Commencement

"I implore those 'Vichy Republicans' who have endorsed him to please, please reconsider."

Former London Mayor Ken Livingston’s favorite “historian” is an Orthodox Jew turned Marxist, Lenni Brenner

Livingston’s claim that Hitler was a Zionist is based on a book Brenner wrote in the 1980s, “Zionism in the Age of Dictators"

David Petraeus says of all the people profiled in obits in the NYT he’d want to have dinner with U.S. Grant

"In my view, Grant stands alone among American military leaders as hugely impressive at all three levels of war:"

New biography tells all about a forthright Mormon historian, Leonard Arrington, who told all

To the end of his life Arrington worried that he might face some kind of church discipline for his candid approach to the past.

Morton White, Philosopher and Historian, Dies at 99

Historians will remember him for his pathbreaking book, "The Revolt Against Formalism. "

Critic says professors are unfairly dismissing Sidney Blumenthal’s biography of Lincoln

"There seems to be some reluctance among academic historians to accept A Self-Made Man for the instant classic it clearly is."

Bartlomiej Plebanczyk, an unassuming historian and museum director in northeastern Poland, believes he has found the long-lost Amber Room

The location? A former German bunker in Mamerki, Poland.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks about his book "Jacksonland" and what it says about America’s democratic tradition

"What Trump captures is Jackson's attitude, which you could probably say of a lot of other politicians through the generations."

After his release from jail Jewish historian Stephan Templ says new evidence proves his claim he was framed by the Austrian government

He announced that he was immediately moving to the Czech Republic in protest of his conviction. “I don’t want to live in a place that stole my freedom for no legitimate reason.”

Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88

Mr. Honour wrote and edited with John Fleming, his life partner, from a base in italy.

Edgar Feuchtwanger, the historian who lived next door to Hitler

Today, at 91, the author of biographies of Disraeli and Gladstone, could well be the last German Jew alive who grew up within arm’s reach of Hitler and observed him day to day, if only in fleeting glimpses.

Workplace boredom is driving women back to the kitchen, claims historian Maggie Andrews

She’s the author of "The Acceptable Face of Feminism: 100 Years of the Women’s Institute."