Historians/History

What Historians Are Saying: State of the Union 2019

What historians are saying on Twitter about Pelosi, Trump, and the postponed State of the Union address.

What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Carla Pestana

by Erik Moshe

She’s toying with writing a book for a popular audience in part to try to make some of the work done in the academy more accessible and interesting to those outside it.

Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's Death. Here's How His Legacy Still Shapes the United States Today.

by Ronald L. Feinman

From national parks to corporate regulation, Teddy's ideas surround us. 

What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir

by Erik Moshe

“I don’t actually think I chose a career in history, it chose me.”

What Can Historians Teach The Media In The Era of Trump? 4 Historians Weigh In

by Kyla Sommers

“Truth itself is under attack and expertise is suspect." So what role can historians play?

History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed

by Kyla Sommers

What panelists at #AHA19 had to say graduate student labor and organizing on college campuses. 

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Ok, We Returned the Stolen Bells to the Philippines

by Brian Shott

But we haven’t yet confronted the awful and complicated history behind the theft.

Oh No! The Depressing Truth About the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory Workers

by Donald Yacovone

They were slaves made to look like Sambo stereotypes.

So I Became a Historian—Now I’m Telling How It Worked Out

by Vaughn Davis Bornet

Advice to young people considering history as a major.

What I’m Reading: An Interview with Historian Walter Nugent

by Erik Moshe

What’s his favorite history book? "Other than my own and my wife's, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel.”

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

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Why Hume was much more “liberal” than Jefferson.

We Wanted to Publish an Illustrated History of the Holy Land. We Couldn’t Make Everybody Happy.

by H. G. M. Williamson

One compromise was to stop our history in 1918.

Farewell

by M. Andrew Holowchak

An interview with HNN’s founder and publisher Rick Shenkman, who retires at the end of 2018.

Josephine Baker’s Secret Life as a World War II Spy

by Sherry Jones

A fiction writer tells this story in a new novel.

Was Sputnik Really the Beginning of the Space Age?

by Frank J. Engo

A look at the facts shows what’s wrong with the conventional narrative.

When We Really Needed an Anti-Lynching Law Congress Wouldn’t Pass It

by William Loren Katz

This is the man who proposed the first federal anti-lynching law. It was in 1900.  HR 6963.

What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Stacy D. Fahrenthold

by Erik Moshe

A historian should have “a willingness to fail frequently, and a commitment to failing a little bit better each time.”

Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

by M. Andrew Holowchak

The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

In Memory of the Man Who Was Identified with the “God Is Dead” Movement

by Ed Simon

Reflections on the Death of Thomas J.J. Altizer, the last nonconformist.