Historians in the News

Peter Cozzens wins $50,000 military history prize

The prize, awarded by the New-York Historical Society and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, is for his book, "The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars."

The Man Who Exposed Higher Ed’s Slave Past

How Craig Steven Wilder exposed higher education's past.

Trump's Address to Congress: What Historians Think

Manisha Sinha, Joshua Zeitz, Khalil Muhammad, Eric Metaxas, Blair Kelley, Eliot Cohen, Kevin Kruse, and many more. 

Emotional Estate Sale At Home of Historian John Hope Franklin

Franklin was a world-renowned scholar of African American history who died in 2009.

Harvard President Drew Faust says the university is documenting its ties to slavery

It’s hosting a day-long symposium to investigate slavery and universities.

Mostafa el-Abbadi, Champion of Alexandria’s Resurrected Library, Dies at 88

A Cambridge-educated historian of Greco-Roman antiquity, he was the soft-spoken visionary behind the revival of the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

James Oliver Horton remembered as a pioneer for African American research

The George Washington University historian passed away at age 73.

Fareed Zakaria hails historian Nigel Hamilton’s series as the memoir FDR never had the opportunity to write

by Fareed Zakaria

On his TV show Zakaria devoted two segments in two weeks to Hamilton’s masterful account of World War II.

French Historian Says He Was Threatened With Deportation at Houston Airport

Henry Rousso, a French historian and one of the most pre-eminent scholars on the Holocaust, said he was detained for more than 10 hours by federal border agents in Houston and told he would not be allowed to enter the United States before lawyers intervened to stop his deportation.

Theodore Lowi, Zealous Scholar of Presidents and Liberalism, Dies at 85

Lowi was a venerated political scientist who challenged conventional scholarship on presidential power and identified the emergence of what he called “interest-group liberalism.”

McMaster knows how national security policy can go wrong. Will that help him?

by Phillip Carter

Trump's new adviser will need to avoid the Vietnam-era mistakes he studied, says former Army officer.

What LT. Gen. H.R. McMaster will offer as new national security adviser

Unlike others in the Trump administration, he's known for telling it like it is. 

Historian and Antiwar Activist Marilyn Young Dies at 79

She taught at New York University for 35 years and was a pioneering historian of U.S. foreign relations.

Trump Chooses Historian H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser

General McMaster is author of the highly respected book, "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam." He chided the Bush administration for the Iraq War.

Holocaust Historian Deborah Lipstadt Explains Why People Believe Trump's Lies

In an interview with Esquire Magazine she warns that the media have to call out Donald Trump for his lies.

Princeton’s Harold James warns World War Three is now a "serious threat”

“[T]he parties in the political middle and the centre are on the whole in favour of openness, in favour of trade and in favour of migration, but they’re squeezed from both the right and the left.”

Israeli schools' history lessons create good soldiers, says pundit

by Uri Misgav

But this doesn’t mean they’re getting the history they need to understand the world.

Published Historian Of Spain Indicted By A Federal Grand Jury For Possession Of Child Pornography

Henry Kamen, a British citizen currently residing in Barcelona, Spain, is a well-known historian and Professor of Spanish History, who resided within the Athens Division of the Middle District of Georgia.

Seven Books Named as Finalists for the 2017 $50,000 George Washington Prize

Authors include: Jane Kamensky, Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf, Michael J. Klarman, Alan Taylor, TH Breen, Mark Edward Lender, Garry Wheeler Stone, and Nathaniel Philbrick.

Yuval Noah Harari foresees a god-like future for humans

It’s the theme of his latest book,"Homo Deus.”