Historians/History

“Women Also Know History”: Dismantling Gender Bias in the Academy

by Keisha N. Blain and Karin Wulf

Nearly half of graduate degrees awarded in history go to women and yet there's still a persistent problem of gender bias in the academy.

The Horrifying Nazi Roots of the Doctor After Whom Asperger’s Syndrome Is Named

by Robin Lindley

An interview with Edith Sheffer.

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.

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.

Who Killed RFK? Sirhan Sirhan Did It.

by Mel Ayton

You can forget the belief he was put up to it by a hypnotist.

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

by Robert Weible

But they weren’t forgotten.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

The Year The World Almost Blew Up – And Nobody Noticed

by Taylor Downing

It was 1983 and the Soviets nearly ordered a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US and Western Europe.

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

by Ed Hooper

It is after all arguably our most sacred holiday.

Why We Should Be Celebrating the Treatment of Women in Anglo-Saxon England

by Lynda Telford

They had rights and legal safeguards that it took women over eight hundred years of hard struggle to win back after the Norman Conquest.

The Forgotten Men who Shaped the Arab Revolt

by Philip Walker

No. T. E. Lawrence wasn’t the only key European player.

The Former Community Organizer and Activist Who Became a Historian

by Erik Moshe

An Interview with Georgetown University’s Maurice Jackson.

Why I’ve Got the Reference Book Blues

by A.D. Harvey

Don’t facts matter any more?

What’s Missing from the Centenary Celebration of Women’s Suffrage in Britain?

by John Edmonds

No one’s talking about the violence.

War Was Avoided During the Cuban Missile Crisis, but One Man Died

by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias

It’s worth remembering his story, too, to show us the danger of superpower conflict.

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."

Stuart Eizenstat Remembers the Carter Years Differently than Most People

by Chris Riback

The Carter White House advisor argues his case in his newly-published memoirs.