Historians in the News

National Security Archive and Historical Associations File Petition To Open Key Remaining Rosenberg Grand Jury Records

Death of David Greenglass Removes Legal Barrier; 2008 Release Included Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Testimony.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Institute of Armenian Studies raises awareness of culture and contemporary issues on campus and beyond

“Exploring Armenia in such depth offers a wonderful opportunity for our students."

The AP US History Wars: Is a Peace Process Possible?

by Jonathan Burack

The History Wars are back. At issue is the new framework for the Advanced Placement US history program.

Nebraska professor rediscovers lost Walt Whitman poem

Combing through the Library of Congress’s collection of penny newspapers, Wendy Katz stumbled across a famous set of initials. W.W. Yes, that W.W.

Historians are joining with scientists in a breakthrough approach

by Monica Green

Historians haven't traditionally welcomed scientists into their corner of research, but they should -- and now we're doing it. 

Rutgers historian Jochen Hellbeck says the war in Ukraine is an information war

Russia is not totally evil and Ukraine not totally virtuous, Jochen Hellbeck says.

For years marginalized, gay history is now front and center (in Indiana!)

by Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star.

"There's a realization that there's a whole culture here, and it's significant and interesting."

Radical prof James Kilgore, who spent 5 years in prison, could cost U. of Illinois a giant donation

His wife is a historian at the school.  

Jason Sokol is praised for his revealing portraits of blacks--and the shell game liberals and conservatives both play

by Jim Sleeper

"In All Eyes Are Upon Us, he shows Northeastern whites, like their Southern counterparts, proclaiming interracial comity by offering enough moral cover to the shell game to make it seem fair."

David Barton's ongoing refusal to admit his mistakes, even after being confronted by Christian historians

by Warren Throckmorton

"The awareness of Barton’s systematic distortion of the nation’s founding is well known at the highest levels of the Christian political right."

Historian spots long-lost painting while watching 'Stuart Little'

The discovery was made by Gergely Barki, a researcher at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.

New-York Historical Society to Open Center for Women’s History

“The new Center for Women’s History will become a destination for discovery of the crucial role that New York women played in our nation’s social, political and cultural evolution as women struggled for and eventually won the right to vote.”

Ned Blackhawk recalls the grim details of the Sand Creek Massacre

The massacre of Native Americans was so horrific that it prompted two Congressional investigations; forced the resignation of two leaders—Colonel John M. Chivington and the governor of Colorado Territory, John Evans—and launched years of battle with the Plains Indians following the Civil War.

South Korea opens new front in East Asian textbook wars

"The last thing the region needs is officially sanctioned government histories that neighbors will inevitably call propaganda."

1,000 + have signed a petition protesting US government plan to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War

"We write on behalf of many veterans of the American peace movement during the Vietnam era with a deep concern that taxpayer funds and government resources are being expended on a one-sided, three-year, $30 million educational program on the "lessons of Vietnam."

Historian and raconteur Raychauduri dies in UK

Early 1973 saw Raychaudhuri move to the University of Oxford where he presided over the teaching and research of South Asian Hisory for the next 22 years. 

Group is drawing attention to the historic swath between Gettysburg and Monticello

Journey Through Hallowed Ground, a nonprofit organization and four-state partnership based in Waterford, VA, has been dedicated to raising awareness of the unparalleled American history of the region.

1,000 + historians have signed a petition protesting US government plan to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War

"We write on behalf of many veterans of the American peace movement during the Vietnam era with a deep concern that taxpayer funds and government resources are being expended on a one-sided, three-year, $30 million educational program on the "lessons of Vietnam."

History professor says the Vikings never came to Newfoundland

Olaf Janzen is used to getting puzzled looks when he tells people the Vikings never came to Newfoundland.

NYT lauds newest biography of Stalin. It's by Stephen Kotkin.

Kotkin's new study depicts Stalin as an autodidact, an astute thinker, “a people person” with “surpassing organizational abilities; a mammoth appetite for work; a strategic mind and an unscrupulousness that recalled his master teacher, Lenin."