Historians in the News

Jeffrey Ostler's "Surviving Genocide" argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands

The book comes as scholars and writers are challenging narratives around American history and how it hurt people of color.

A Look into the First Day of this Professor's History Class

by L.D. Burnett

After going over the syllabus, professor L.D. Burnett wants her students to access the core of historical study.

John Locke Breaks His Silence

A new manuscript is located in Maryland. But do Americans care what the philosophers have to say?

The Houston Flood Museum and the Harvey Memories Project Gather Harvey Memories for Historians of the Future

They’re a time capsule of the destruction wrought by the deadliest storm to hit Texas since 1919.

Robert Vinson and Jennifer Allen Quoted in NPR Article: What Do You Call The 'Anniversary' Of A Disaster?

For Vinson, a word like "remembrance" is the best fit to describe how people are looking back.

New Exhibit Highlights the Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town

At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.

National Council on Public History Launches "The Inclusive Historian's Handbook"

The handbook is a co-sponsored living digital resource designed to center inclusivity, diversity, equity, and public service in public history work.

A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room

The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.

Founding Fathers would be appalled by Trump’s plan to host G-7, historians say

Featuring Brian Murphy, Virginia Anderson, Robert Parkinson, 

Keri Leigh Merritt Interviewed by Robert Greene for Jacobin Magazine

by Keri Leigh Merritt and Robert Greene II

“Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason”

Book ‘stole’ Mormon historian’s work, but publisher offers a settlement to 'make it right’

It's the “taking of my unseen and unrecognized expertise that hurts more than the taking of my words,” Parshall said.

How do you measure a woman's pain? Historian Whitney Wood aims to find out

Medical historian Whitney Wood is the new Canada Research Chair at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island University.

Horace Pippin: From War to Peace Exhibit Showcases American History Through the Art of a Black WWI Soldier

Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.

Ibram X. Kendi Profiled in Washington Post

For Ibram Kendi, being ‘not racist’ doesn’t cut it. He insists that we, and he, be ‘antiracist.’

‘A Right to Bear Arms?’ Edited by Jennifer Tucker, Barton C. Hacker, and Margaret Vining Explores History of Gun Debate

These essays offer both general readers and specialists a valuable study of how history itself has become a contested site within the wider national legal debate about firearms.

Historian Carl Suddler's New Book Probes Black Youth, Criminal Justice

Dr. Carl Suddler, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, puts the intersection of race, gender, youth and incarceration under a searing spotlight in his new book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.

Preserving Latinx History Through Vintage Photos

A new wave of digital archivists is capturing the forgotten stories of Latinxs across the diaspora through vintage photos, newspaper clippings and other ephemera, including concert posters and magazines.

Diving into the unfolding history of wrecked slave ships

The black underwater archaeology advocates searching for slave shipwrecks. 

Article on History of Failed Bipartisanship Features Quotes from Manisha Sinha, Eric Foner, Corey Robin, Thomas Frank, Nancy Maclean, and Rick Perlstein

by Branko Marcetic

Biden wants to bring the parties together. But for 50 years, that's meant the Right winning every time.

Heather Cox Richardson: Trump isn’t the first president to compare himself to Jesus — the last one who did ‘planned to lead his white supremacist supporters to victory’

According to historian Heather Cox Richardson, however, Trump isn't the first president to compare himself to Jesus, whom Christians believe was the son of God.