Historians in the News

Poland honors historian who said Nazi invasion wasn’t so bad for Jews

Head of Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin receives government award, weeks after publishing article downplaying Jewish suffering in WW2.

The theme of the 2019 annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be “Loyalties”

by Mary Beth Norton, Claire Bond Potter, and Brian W. Ogilvie

The determination to maintain old loyalties or devise new ones can become a foundation for building nations, waging war, transforming and imagining new forms of human community.

Historians will be discussing these current events at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association

Topics include how museums should remember plantation slavery, Chicano history and the role of historians as public intellectuals.

UVA’s Derrick Alridge two lead Center on Race and Public Education in the South

It will addresss the challenges African-American and other students of color encounter in their education in the South.

Historian Harvey Kaye’s got a response to those who say Democrats need Wall Street

by Harvey Kaye

FDR's old progressive coalition can still win elections, he says.

Russian minister keeps doctorate despite plagiarism claims

Vladimir Medinsky, who has published a best-selling trilogy of Russian history in which he presents a glossy nationalist version of the country's past, is also the chairman of the state-backed Russian Military History Society.

Stephanie Mckellop, History Teacher Who Calls on Black Women, Not Male Students, Becomes Latest Culture War Battle

She was immediately denounced by Alex Jones.

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss explains the significance of Bush-Obama attack on Trump

Beschloss marveled at former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama publicly denouncing President Donald Trump — albeit without mentioning his name– saying it is a huge departure in presidential decorum.

Thomas Childers says we’ve got the Nazis wrong in 5 different ways

by Thomas Childers

Childers is the author of "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany."

Fake news? It’s nothing new, says Trinity College Dublin historian

"As long as there has been news, there has been fake news; and as long as there has been information, there is misinformation and disinformation.” — Dr. Linda Kiernan

Historian discovers early Reformation writings “hiding in plain sight”

These writings, known as the Lausanne Theses, led to the expulsion of three prominent Lutheran ministers from the Swiss city of Bern in the mid-1500s, says Missouri University’s Michael W. Bruening.

Max Boot is done with the GOP

by Max Boot

"I am done, done, done with the GOP after more than 30 years as a loyal Republican.”

National security expert Tom Nichols: “Hey, I’m unstable” is a bad look for the president

by Chauncey DeVega

Naval War College professor on North Korea’s likely view of Trump’s threats: Not only is he reckless, he’s stupid.

Victor Davis Hanson says we shouldn’t be rushing to war with North Korea

by Victor Davis Hanson

"We are in the middle, not at the end, of a long North Korean crisis. But we need to ensure that worries over how the crisis escalates will be all Chinese and North Korean — and not our own."

Cornelia Bailey, Champion of African-Rooted Culture in Coastal Georgia, Dies at 72

A storyteller, she was regarded as the unofficial historian of Sapelo Island, Ga.

Sexism in the history department at West Point alleged

by Peggy O’Donnell

Peggy O’Donnell taught history at West Point for a year. She says the sexism was “glaring."

Digital map helps historians get granular with holocaust research

Waitman Beorn, a lecturer in UVA’s Corcoran Department of History and a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was looking for a way to create an interactive map of the Lviv ghetto and the nearby Janowska concentration camp.

Historian digs into the hidden world of Mormon finances

In a new book D. Michael Quinn shows how church went from losing money to making money — lots of it.

Bill Moyers interviews James Whitman about his shocking book

Whitman’s book: "Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law."

A historian who became a business professor?

Yes. But the message in his new book is that those who major in liberal arts make great employees.