Historians in the News

Ann M. Little (AKA: Historiann) insists military history IS taught at colleges and she’s teaching it

by Ann M. Little

"Here we go again: military historian complains that no one teaches or writes about military history any more, part eleventybillion."

Ellen Fitzpatrick says no one’s taken the women who have sought the presidency in the past very seriously

In her new book, she does.

Mormon women's history "at a crossroads"

Keith Erekson, director of the Church History Library, says Mormon women are finally being put back into history

The Nazis and Hungary took everything from my mother’s family. What good would reparations do?

by Margaret McMullan

That’s the thinking of Margaret McMullan, author of "Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return."

Economist Robert Gordon says the Second Industrial Revolution was a one-time event

by Steven Dubner

In an interview on Freakonomics he argues, as he does in his new book,"The Rise and Fall of American Growth," that this means we aren't going to see the high growth spurts we've been used to.

Professor’s Book Featured in Syndicated Comic Strip | Southern Miss Now

Illustrator Patrick Reynolds recently created a series of cartoons about black barbers based on a book by Dr. Douglas Bristol, a history professor at the Southern Miss Gulf Park.

Historian's new book tells neglected history of black gay men

"I wanted to reclaim a history that had been washed over, that had been overlooked.” — Kevin Mumford

A Columbia professor is alarmed that academics are neglecting military history

Says Robert Neer: "US students deserve a chance to learn about the country’s military past, given its immense impact on their lives and those of others around the world."

Nameplate historians in Britain are rallying to renegotiate membership in the EU

They don't believe the EU is responsible for the peace of Europe.

Andrew Bacevich has a 3 point plan for an American strategy against violent radical Islam

by Andrew Bacevich

Point one: Self-protect. Point two: Restore stability. Point three: Promote agents of change.

Is Francis Fukuyama's "end of history” argument dead?

by Jedediah Purdy

“In a year when a man whose own party calls him a fascist is squarely leading the Republican primaries and a self-declared democratic socialist is leading an unexpectedly robust insurgency on the Democratic side, Fukuyama's argument is looking more and more tenuous."

AHA nominations are in

President-elect candidates:  David Blight and Mary Beth Norton. 

Historian Ken Burns: Trump’s America is a ‘retrograde moment’ — white guilt ‘metastasizes into darkness’

“[W]e can’t pretend now that a phenomenon of the kind of racial innuendo that’s happening right now is somehow new and we’re shocked, shocked that this is happening.”

Anita Brookner, art historian and Booker prize winner, dies age 87

Author and first female Slade professor of art published 24 novels including Hotel du Lac, which won her the Booker prize in 1984

The Shrinking Humanities Major

Number of bachelor's degrees awarded fell 8.7 percent between 2012 and 2014, study finds.

NYT hails the Lincoln papers project

by NYT Editorial

But the Times says in an editorial it’s in jeopardy because of Illinois’s budget woes.

Canadian historian subject of a sex harassment investigation

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, acting associate dean of graduate studies at Brock University, is accused of getting a female student drunk and taking advantage of her.

Gettysburg history professor leads protest against Confederate Flag rally at historic battlefield

Scott Hancock, a history and Africana studies associate professor at Gettysburg College, recently helped galvanize opposition to an inaugural Confederate flag rally at the historic Gettysburg battlefield near the school.

In an interview Eric Foner is asked if he thinks the Republican Party is likely to break up

This was his answer.

Syracuse professor has impersonated women’s movement leaders for 38 years

Sally Roesch Wagner said the appeal of the impersonation for students is the ability to engage firsthand with the material.