Historians/History

Historians Need to Write and Teach with Empathy

by Walter G. Moss

What we are talking about here is not just attempting to feel as others do, but also to experience how they think.

Hillary's Misinformed Comment About AIDS Shows that LGBT History Still Remains in the Closet

by Jim Downs

It's often either forgotten or distorted.

African American History Is at Risk in Richmond

by James Brewer Stewart

Historians are rallying to memorialize the jail where slaves were auctioned off and driven in chains into the Deep South.

Two Ways We Might Have Solved Slavery No One Wants to Talk About

by Thomas Fleming

This neglect has worsened race relations.

Why Didn’t the Heirs of a Credit Mobilier Swindler Burn His Incriminating Papers?

by Sheila Myers

That’s the mystery this writer wanted to understand.

October 27, 1962: The Most Dangerous Day in Human History

by Sheldon M. Stern

The final installment in Sheldon Stern’s exciting series, “Capturing History as it Really Happened in October 1962

Did I Just Write the Largest History Book Ever?

by Christopher A. Lawrence

The fascinating story of a mammoth book about the Battle of Kursk.

Have Questions Only an Historian Could Answer? Try Reddit. Go Ahead, Ask Them Something.

by Mark Hallum

Reddit’s AskHistorians page brings questions to historians of all varieties, from the serious and dynamic to the curious and funny.

Women Who Advanced Science and Changed History: An Interview with Rachel Swaby

by Robin Lindley

In her inspiring and illuminating new book "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Change Science—and the World" Rachel Swaby introduces some of the great and often underappreciated or forgotten minds of science.

The Forgotten Story of Groundbreaking American Surgeon Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter

by Robin Lindley

An interview with author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz.

Martha Washington Goes to War, 1775-1783

by Flora Fraser

She and George were married forty years. Her story deserves to be told. Now it has been.

The Appalling Story of the Nixon Administration’s Decision to Bully the CIA into Distorting Intelligence

by Ray Locker

Nixon and Kissinger lied about Soviet nuclear tests. The CIA went along.

Christian Appy on the Legacy of the Vietnam War: An Interview

by Robin Lindley

In his wide-ranging book "American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity," historian Christian Appy explores the complex history of the war.

Did Jefferson Believe in the Afterlife?

by M. Andrew Holowchak, Ph.D.

Many scholars say the answer is yes, but the evidence is weak.

It’s Okay – Change that Offensive Name on a Building.

by T. Evan Faulkenbury

It may be carved in stone, but history isn’t.

It’s Been 125 Years Since Wounded Knee. The Lakota Are Still Seeking Justice.

by David W. Grua

Long before the battle over Confederate monuments, they built a memorial to their dead to reclaim the history whites celebrated as a victory.

What Woodrow Wilson Did to Make "Good Government" Mean White Government 

by Eric S. Yellin

For all the recent discussions about Woodrow Wilson and racism, we are still failing to grapple fully with Wilson’s involvement in the developing racial ideology of the early twentieth century.

Even Judging Woodrow Wilson by the Standards of His Own Time, He Was Deplorably Racist

by Nancy C. Unger

He did not live in a period of uncontested racism.

Why Do We Know so Little about China in World War Two?

by Peter Harmsen

And why this is about to change.

This Is What Oliver Stone’s Movie About Nixon Got Right

by Robert Brent Toplin

Disclosures in the last 20 years show he was right and his critics wrong.