Historians in the News

Jewish historian’s anti-Trump statement goes viral

More than 240 Jewish studies scholars have signed a public statementthat warns against the threat to minorities posed by the election of Donald Trump.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway to step down

The African-American historian, who’s heading to Northwestern as provost, faced criticism last spring for taking two days to denounce racist Halloween incidents.

Holocaust-denying UK historian David Irving goes on lecture tour

David Irving, a far-right British historian widely condemned as a Holocaust denier, will embark on a month-long lecture tour, seeking to capitalize on an upcoming feature film documenting his legal misfortunes.

David Kaiser says Trump nationalist Steve Bannon is wedded to a theory that we’re ripe for revolutionary change

by David Kaiser

The theory was promulgated in the 1990s by the authors of “The Fourth Turning Point.”

His Japanese-American parents were held in camps; now historian sees ‘same patterns’ emerging

A Seattle man who has spent 15 years studying and preserving the history of Japanese-American internment in World War II said he sees the same climate of fear and hate now following Donald Trump’s campaign.

Historian says liberals worried about Trump should ask “What would the abolitionists do?”

by Linda Hirshman

Linda Hirshman is working on a history of abolitionism.

American historian Thomas W. Laqueur wins ‘a real vindication’ with $75,000 Cundill Prize for "The Work of the Dead"

Laqueur said that winning the Cundill Prize felt like “a real vindication” after labouring for 40 years on the book.

History professor examines immigrants' stories in new book

“It tends to be lack of familiarity with immigrants that breeds nativism.” — Tyler Anbinder, professor of history, George Washington University

Liberals are reposting Yale’s Timothy Snyder’s lessons on dealing with authoritarians

by Timothy Snyder

"Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today."

UCLA Professor Gabriel Piterberg — accused of sexual harassment — to return in winter 2017

Many students say his punishment wasn’t severe enough.

On quest to clear Kasztner, historian ‘shocked’ to prove Nazi collaboration

Paul Bogdanor has set out the case against the Hungarian Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, an affair that sparked a deadly scandal in Israel, though that wasn’t his original plan.

Kenneth Clark is the subject of a new biography

The New York Times calls James Stourton’s book "crisp and authoritative."

Allan Lichtman, who predicted Trump’s election, predicts he’ll be impeached

"This one is not based on a system; it's just my gut. They don't want Trump as president, because they can't control him. He's unpredictable.”

A historian’s take on Trump’s economic plan for blue-collar, manufacturing jobs

"I think as a historian, what strikes one the most about this program is simply its nationalism.” -- Columbia University’s Adam Tooze

How Historians of Tomorrow Will Interpret Donald Trump’s Election

Eight experts weigh in.

Douglas R. Egerton sets the record straight about the role of black soldiers in the Civil War

by Douglas Egerton

Sorry, but the movie “Glory” gets the story wrong in one significant way.

Armenian students protest Atatürk scholar to leave campus

They objected to a new book by Baylor University history professor George Gawrych.

World Chaos and World Order: Conversations With Henry Kissinger

The former secretary of state reflects on war, peace, and the biggest tests facing the next president.

Doris Kearns Goodwin explains what we can learn from the 2016 election

In an interview she says the challenge for populist presidents is to figure out how to address problems concretely.

Yaffa Eliach, Historian Who Captured Faces of the Holocaust, Dies at 79

Yaffa Eliach, who as a 4-year-old survived the Nazi massacres of Jews in her Lithuanian town, went on to document their daily life in a kaleidoscopic book and a haunting, three-story canyon of photographs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.