Historians in the News

"Antisemitic Views in Germany Often Remain Unchallenged”

That’s the conclusion of historian Gunther Jikeli.

Trade wars can be ‘fantastically disruptive,’ the IMF’s historian warns

Princeton’s Harold James says the history lesson is clear.

Author Kevin J. Hayes Wins 2018 George Washington Prize of $50K

He's the author of the new book, "George Washington: A Life in Books."

Scholar says she had to stop researching Henry James to write a history book about the origins of Trumpism

Professor Sarah Churchwell traced Trump’s ideas to the KKK and eugenics.

Douglas Brinkley shares insight on Bob Dylan Archives in Tulsa

The historian is writing a book about the poet/singer.

Heather Ann Thompson exposes what how a South Carolina prison riot really went down

by Heather Ann Thompson

In an article in the NYT she shared the stories inmates risked their lives to tell her about riot at Lee Correctional Institution that left seven dead.

Kent State’s controversial Julio Pino pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators

He’s putting in for early retirement as the school moves to fire him.

NYU’s James Fraser find himself in a rightwing vortex after Fox News attacks his textbook

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Selective quotes taken from the book out of context left a warper impression.

Garry Wills hails Jimmy Carter in a New York Times article blasting the religious right

by Garry Wills

"The religious right has long been not a religion but an ideology.” – Garry Wills

Historian Erik Loomis makes the case for a federal jobs guarantee

by Erik Loomis

Resurrecting Humphrey-Hawkins can help pre-empt a technology crisis and even future labor dislocation from globalization.

Michael Beschloss says this isn't the most politically divisive time in America

The political climate after the Revolutionary War was much more polarized, and so were the environments during and after the Civil War and during and after the Civil Rights era, including the Vietnam War.

This is what happened when a historian with a rural background wrote favorably about gun control in the Washington Post

by Nathan Wuertenberg

He was subjected to anti-Semitic diatribes from people who denied he represented rural America.

Is Economics Going Back To The 1800s? Maybe So.

by Simon Constable

Economics historian Robert Wright says three long-discredited ideas  –  Tariffs, the Gold Standard, and Slavery as an engine of economic development  –  are now back in fashion (to a certain extent).

Historian: Why destroying archives is never a good idea

by Dora Vargha

Case in point: What Britain did with files showing records from Caribbean immigrants.

New Yorker publishes profile of H.R. McMaster just weeks after Trump fires him

"Can a national-security adviser retain his integrity if the President has none?"

Feds charge controversial Kent State University professor Julio Pino with lying to FBI

The federal charge against him appears to stem from an FBI investigation into threats made by a St. Louis man against a family court judge.

Historians in Israel are debating whether David Ben-Gurion believed in trading land for peace as the left insists he did

by Avi Shilon

Avi Shilon, citing statements from 1948, says the answer is no.

Dartmouth historian Matthew J. Garcia says conservative partisans in Arizona have taken over a civics school he once ran

by Matthew J. Garcia

"The entire affair sickened me as I watched it unfold."

Berkeley’s Carolyn Merchant explains what ecofeminism is

Merchant, along with various other female academics, is responsible for integrating two concepts — environmentalism and feminism — into a study known as ecofeminism.

University of Southern California's David Kang says Korea is the only place on earth where the Cold War continues

"Nothing has essentially changed since 1945. We are in the same place we were with two regimes nose-to-nose."