Historians in the News

Ken Burns and the Myth of Theodore Roosevelt

"Though exciting to watch, Burns’s cinematic homage muddles the history."

Professor premieres animated short on Pueblo revolt on PBS

Goal of film is to spark social change

Are footnotes passé?

by Tim Lacy

Scholarship in the Age of Kindle.

Colorado school board, worried about the new AP framework, wants to make sure high school kids are taught patriotic history

Jeffco School Board Member Julie Williams proposes to create a committee to make sure U.S. History is being taught correctly in high school.

Who wrote the new AP US History framework? Now we know.

"We reiterate our belief that the Curriculum Framework will result in a better AP course for students and their teachers."

Francis Fukuyama is still bullish on where history is headed, but Americans should worry: republics can decay.

by Michael Ignatieff,

Doubling Down on Democracy

What Ken Burns Doesn't Understand about the Roosevelts

In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost.

A call for historians to do macro history

“Take it big!” Tackle major issues.

Conservatives press the case against the new AP framework for US history

"Five Reasons The College Board’s U.S. History Talking Points Are Wrong"

Pro-Israel groups going after federal support of Middle East Studies

"We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the misuse of federal funds under Title VI of the Higher Education Act (“HEA”). "

100th Anniversary of Beard's 'An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution' commemorated

100 years later, what should we make of Charles Beard's contributions? 

2 of 21 MacArthur Fellows for 2014 are historians

Pamela O. Long is a historian of science and technology. Tara Zahra is a historian of modern Europe.

Ken Burns electrifies Jon Stewart show

Burns describes in riveting detail what drove TR, FDR and Eleanor ... Fear.

‘The Power Broker’ Turns 40: How Robert Caro Wrote a Masterpiece

Forty years ago today, Caro’s magisterial 1,296-page life of New York master builder Robert Moses rewrote the rules of biography.

History departments aren't going to go out of business, but ...

by Mills Kelly

"There is nothing in the data, either from IPEDS or from the NCES, that should give us hope for the future of our discipline."

Now it’s conservatives in Utah who are complaining about the new AP framework

State official says changes promote critical thinking, not revisionist history.

How historian Shlomo Sand "stopped being a Jew"

“Is not the very fact of defining oneself as a Jew within the State of Israel an act of affiliation to a privileged caste which creates intolerable injustices around itself?”

Columbia University Releases Eric Foner’s Civil War MOOCs. It's Free!

Free history courses to reach educators and students worldwide, expanding Columbia’s online teaching initiatives

Stephen Cohen defends himself from charges he's an apologist for Putin, says a new Cold War has begun

by Stephen Cohen

"I have been repeatedly assailed—even in purportedly liberal publications—as Putin’s No. 1 American 'apologist.' "

Historians share their EUREKA! moments

Here, eleven historians share the ‘Eureka moment’ that set them on course to specialising in their chosen field.