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595dbe11c8db540efe98d1d13cd1bd8e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/154924 | Maximilian Schell Changed the Way We Think About the Holocaust. Really. | Maximilian Schell Changed the Way We Think About the Holocaust. Really.
Image via Wiki Commons.
The recent death of actor Maximilian Schell prompted recollections of his Oscar-winning performance in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg. One of the most prominent films made by producer-director Stanley Kramer from an or... |
5f47055ed42783f7acca166690ad08bc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/154940 | George Takei Reflects on Travel, Both Painful and Pleasurable | George Takei Reflects on Travel, Both Painful and Pleasurable
George
Takei is a man of many speaking engagements. He talks at “Star Trek”
conventions about his role as Mr. Sulu. He tells soldiers and students
about the role of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a subject in
which he is well versed. In a ne... |
7e0f45a466aaeb94f2daf5b146d37e39 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/155725 | What Would George Kennan Say About Ukraine? | What Would George Kennan Say About Ukraine?
“We
must be gardeners and not mechanics in our
approach to world affairs” (George F. Kennan)
The spectre of
Russian expansion is once again haunting Europe. The longer the
Ukrainian crisis rumbles on, the louder become the voices in favour
of reviving the cold war policy... |
d76318fd401b8c52d058e848009c5392 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156419 | Journalist Michael Wolraich says he wrote his new book about the Progressives to teach Americans how to do liberal politics | Journalist Michael Wolraich says he wrote his new book about the Progressives to teach Americans how to do liberal politics
HNN Editor: This excerpt features an interview with Michael Wolraich, the author of the new book, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics ... |
cbc0271a2c246a93a8517a3eded2d4dd | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156779 | There's no such thing as a gentle execution | There's no such thing as a gentle execution
Did Joseph Wood suffer when he was executed in Arizona this summer?
Some witnesses reported that Wood gasped over 600 times during his July 23 execution by lethal injection, which took nearly two hours. But one official said that Wood "appeared to be snoring," while another s... |
f62794c5cea3c50e945b54ba665fbb3e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157795 | This Is What Ken Burns Neglected to Tell You About Eleanor Roosevelt | This Is What Ken Burns Neglected to Tell You About Eleanor Roosevelt
International
Human Rights Day (December 10) and the recent airing of the Ken Burns
series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
have focused renewed attention on the life
and work of Eleanor Roosevelt. While such interest is welcome and
long over... |
897f1dadce3a2046f384ffe4b4241bdc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158384 | A member of the Warren Commission staff now worries he was a victim of a “massive cover-up” | A member of the Warren Commission staff now worries he was a victim of a “massive cover-up”
Half a century after the Warren Commission concluded there was no conspiracy in John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the commission’s chief conspiracy hunter believes the investigation was the victim of a “massive cover-up” to hide ... |
04e19ee54d2aa8b7238696b078a2c6b8 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158716 | Obama and Netanyahu Differ on History, Not Just Iran | Obama and Netanyahu Differ on History, Not Just Iran
Related Link Benjamin Netanyahu’s Long History of Crying Wolf About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons
The differences between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and President Barack Obama extend beyond their views of the current
negotiations to limit Iran’s capacity to... |
31d1cc7a0bf2e9faf8d7098a02bddc20 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159221 | This Is Microhistory? | This Is Microhistory?
Historians
might want to think about becoming active participants in the
“bookternet,”
the Internet’s social media communities for book-lovers.
Book-publicist Rachel Fershleiser describes the bookternet as a way
to form community around the solitary pursuits of reading and
writing. Publishe... |
b732db812f3e42d536a7e3672914c754 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159433 | Could a Movie Help Lead to the Departure of Scotland from the UK? | Could a Movie Help Lead to the Departure of Scotland from the UK?
Among
the surprising results in the United Kingdom’s elections on May 7
was the striking success of the Scottish National Party. The SNP won
56 of Scotland’s 59 parliamentary seats. In some important
respects, the nationalists’ prominence in Scotland... |
1a7bd83703c9cccbb0b46085cdb0d630 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159662 | Y’all: It’s Older Than We Knew | Y’all: It’s Older Than We Knew
Few
words in the English language have been the subject of as much
research and debate as y’all.
For a historian, perhaps the most interesting part of this
scholarship has looked at the origin and development of the word: How
and when did y’all
come about? Until recently, the word w... |
bbbb86c06a67345160b3c52b22a6f958 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161010 | A Historian’s Report Card on the Fed | A Historian’s Report Card on the Fed
"Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building" by AgnosticPreachersKid - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons.
Eight
years after plunging into the worst financial crisis since the 1930s,
the United States economy continues to suffer from numerous
structural
iss... |
3d217a07de9974cdc8fbc6ae3e16de48 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161483 | It’s Been 125 Years Since Wounded Knee. The Lakota Are Still Seeking Justice. | It’s Been 125 Years Since Wounded Knee. The Lakota Are Still Seeking Justice.
Big Foot's camp three days after Wounded Knee Massacre; with bodies of four Lakota Sioux wrapped in blankets in the foreground; U.S. soldiers amid scattered debris of camp
This
year marks the 125th anniversary of the massacre at
Wounded Kn... |
dd42fcf4eebce693039500ac59d20e0d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161551 | UCLA Condemns Anti-Semitic Facebook Post | UCLA Condemns Anti-Semitic Facebook Post
The University of California at Los Angeles last week condemned an anti-Semitic comment that a UCLA student posted on the Facebook page of Mayim Bialik, the actress. Bialik, a UCLA alumna, wrote on Facebook about her pride in being Jewish and Zionist. The student -- in a comment... |
f6c9fa971f005b09d30c097881292c4d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161838 | Did Racism Taint Woodrow Wilson as a Historian? | Did Racism Taint Woodrow Wilson as a Historian?
Related Link The Puzzling Apologies for Woodrow Wilson’s Racism in A. Scott Berg’s Recent Biography By Sheldon Stern
The greater part of Woodrow Wilson’s career was spent in
the academic world, as a professor and later as president of Princeton. And, he
was the only Ame... |
db0f3f10c43a3329d685eec0c9b07bdf | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161881 | This Is How February Became Black History Month | This Is How February Became Black History Month
It was in 1964 when the author James Baldwin reflected on the shortcomings of his education. “When I was going to school,” he said, “I began to be bugged by the teaching of American history because it seemed that that history had been taught without cognizance of my prese... |
f07be003a2305b3e6811428deb481fd7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161883 | Teddy Roosevelt Defends the Presidential Primary | Teddy Roosevelt Defends the Presidential Primary
On March 20, 1912, Carnegie Hall was filled to capacity. Only two months earlier, Theodore Roosevelt’s opponent and rival for the Republican presidential nomination Senator Robert La Follette had delivered a powerful address to an overflow crowd of cheering supporters in... |
fedbce2631d775aab384778f6971d4c0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162082 | Fresh evidence of declining American interest in historic sites | Fresh evidence of declining American interest in historic sites
In addition to using libraries and visiting museums, historic site visitation is another common form of public engagement with the humanities. The percentage of people reporting at least one such visit in the previous year fell by more than a third from 19... |
97e0ef24e79ce6485a2cb75d7c904567 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162411 | After Hack by Neo-Nazi Group, Anti-Semitic Fliers Appear on Campus Printers | After Hack by Neo-Nazi Group, Anti-Semitic Fliers Appear on Campus Printers
Students at various colleges nationwide were stunned and upset Friday to find anti-Semitic fliers (below) on campus printers. Many students initially assumed that someone in their library or residence hall had printed the flier. But as the day ... |
3a83f08838a8f9b089db269a3cfa3eee | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162476 | Lessons from 1912: Why Trumpmania Probably Won’t Last | Lessons from 1912: Why Trumpmania Probably Won’t Last
This year’s Republican convention appears to be primed for a rupture of a kind we haven’t seen since Teddy Roosevelt broke dramatically with the party in 1912. The parallels are striking: The party is riven between establishment and insurgents. The people’s choice i... |
d3e9fd252ff3616e17a16bfa68b245ae | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162625 | Why Did MacArthur Become a Hero? In a Crisis We Are Desperate for Leaders. | Why Did MacArthur Become a Hero? In a Crisis We Are Desperate for Leaders.
Douglas MacArthur has been dead for
over fifty years yet he remains one of the most controversial
military figures of the twentieth century. His well-polished
reputation was far from unanimously accepted among his
contemporaries, and a half-... |
7ec2576f9ee9963a3b96c3be88adf2b5 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162814 | Before Germans Slaughtered Jews They Slaughtered Africans | Before Germans Slaughtered Jews They Slaughtered Africans
Herero
prisoners of war in chains. C 1904
In
recent years, some in the African-American community have expressed a
disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as
someone else’s nightmare. After all, African-Americans are still
struggling to ... |
48b862138ffa35a6477f1616094ef896 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162889 | ISIS Destroys Ancient Adad & Mashki Gates in Nineveh, Iraq | ISIS Destroys Ancient Adad & Mashki Gates in Nineveh, Iraq
In a new photo report purportedly released by the Islamic State, ISIS confirms news reports of satellite imagery showing the destruction of the reconstructed Adad and Mashki Gates and a large portion of Nineveh's fortification wall. The photo report was release... |
824f1eac536017a47b51cd46cf24ab7a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163194 | Yes, Yes to "No-No Boy," the New Play About a World War II Japanese-American Who Faces a Wrenching Decision in an Internment Camp | Yes, Yes to "No-No Boy," the New Play About a World War II Japanese-American Who Faces a Wrenching Decision in an Internment Camp
There have been several plays, movies
and television documentaries about the 100,000 or so Japanese-Americans confined at internment camps on the West Coast and
in some other towns during ... |
d24abd4f3df61a169ddae0b5d8cf8434 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163500 | Review of Brian J. Snee's "Lincoln Before Lincoln: Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America’s Greatest President " | Review of Brian J. Snee's "Lincoln Before Lincoln: Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America’s Greatest President "
Every
four years during the Presidential election cycle, Republicans
proudly tout themselves the party of Lincoln. In 2016, however, this
familiar theme seems to be largely ignored as the Re... |
99167d16812c8f3f541836f18c729ae2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163708 | Shoulda Woulda Coulda – A Presidential Role Model Donald Trump Desperately Needed | Shoulda Woulda Coulda – A Presidential Role Model Donald Trump Desperately Needed
If Donald Trump
hoped to win this election, he needed a new role model. He had
flirted with a half dozen, from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan to
Richard Nixon. The latest changes in his campaign staff make it clear
that he has decid... |
10354b0fb299b769b2bea729fd055629 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163914 | Silver Spring, Maryland Has Whitewashed Its Past | Silver Spring, Maryland Has Whitewashed Its Past
As journalists and academics swept into
American communities in turmoil over African American residents
killed by police officers, James Loewen urged these visitors to
question what they see. “When researching a town or county, if it
is overwhelmingly monoracial, dec... |
8224016716f4d3434b9c3b63f2ccbaab | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163970 | The Obvious Lesson We’re Ignoring from Our Internment of the Japanese During World War 2 | The Obvious Lesson We’re Ignoring from Our Internment of the Japanese During World War 2
Throughout
our history, when Americans have been attacked or felt threatened,
fear and vengeance sometimes have ruled. On more than one occasion
an entire ethnic group of native-born Americans has been branded a
threat. Entir... |
e5c6224e26a3aba62a91f593f6a255ad | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164050 | Theodore Roosevelt is finally getting a presidential library. It will be in North Dakota! | Theodore Roosevelt is finally getting a presidential library. It will be in North Dakota!
Related Link Website for the Roosevelt library
The rigorously authentic Elkhorn Ranch re-creation will be the centerpiece of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. So far, they have $15 million committed from the s... |
84f7040037cceeb7faabc2c5e872f91a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164447 | Are Trump Supporters Seriously Citing the Internment of Japanese Americans as a Model? | Are Trump Supporters Seriously Citing the Internment of Japanese Americans as a Model?
The
ghosts of internment are haunting political discourse once again.
Ever
since Donald Trump began singling out Muslims as a security threat,
some among his supporters have been frighteningly quick to note that
the federal gover... |
4cdc8e0c7656f8170f4a02a1d6d57891 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164525 | Historian says it’s a relief to see Trump supporter hammered for suggesting Muslims be registered | Historian says it’s a relief to see Trump supporter hammered for suggesting Muslims be registered
When Donald Trump and other Republican legislators proposed a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States last November, many commentators turned to history. My colleague Matt Ford argued that the incarceration of Japan... |
8ebaefca88055e0234e761e5b939b97e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164750 | The Forgotten First Attempt to Plant a Colony on US Soil | The Forgotten First Attempt to Plant a Colony on US Soil
Less
than two generations after Columbus landed in 1492, and while his son
Diego served as governor of Spain’s New World headquarters on
Hispaniola, another Spanish colony was planted in South Carolina, the
first on what is now part of the United States. Sinc... |
ed85838ab92c0157ee1d5e7d56715c09 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164999 | Another National Park Service tweeter has a not-so-subtle message for Donald Trump | Another National Park Service tweeter has a not-so-subtle message for Donald Trump
On the same day President Donald Trump is expected to order a temporary ban on immigrants from certain Muslim countries, as well as a hold on refugees, Death Valley National Park’s official Twitter account posted stark reminders of the U... |
0828123e103f34464bc712de40e92900 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165095 | During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security | During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security
The incarceration of Japanese-Americans is the best-known effect of Executive Order 9066, the rule signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. And for good reason. The suffering and punishment placed upon innocent Japa... |
2e6f9310321824015141a4182112385b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165204 | On this 75th anniversary of the order to intern Japanese-Americans, many are seeing parallels to the immigration ban | On this 75th anniversary of the order to intern Japanese-Americans, many are seeing parallels to the immigration ban
In 1988, the final full year of his second White House term, Ronald Reagan apologized to the 120,000 Japanese-Americans who’d been confined to internment camps during World War II, of which there were 10... |
f2c0740d4dd00e7be2bfb18cc50f0eb9 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165230 | The 75th Anniversary of FDR’s Order to Intern Japanese-Americans Is Frighteningly Timely | The 75th Anniversary of FDR’s Order to Intern Japanese-Americans Is Frighteningly Timely
February
19 marks the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s
executive order authorizing the forced relocation of Japanese
Americans to internment camps following the outbreak of war with
Japan.
The
decision was a ... |
4ce7d2449eea3d664fbee16b6a0f9d24 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165603 | Exactly One Year Before His Death Martin Luther King Denounced the War in Vietnam | Exactly One Year Before His Death Martin Luther King Denounced the War in Vietnam
Related Link When Martin Luther King Came Out Against Vietnam By David Garrow
“I
am sure that since you have been engaged in one of the hardest
struggles for equality and human rights, you are among those who
understand fully, and who ... |
fdaf8f38fc07cd30fdc1875ab9597162 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165805 | What’s Happened to Historians? | What’s Happened to Historians?
History
isn’t being kind
to historians these days. Shrinking university history
departments are turning over teaching responsibilities to poorly
paid, part time adjuncts. Underfunded museums and cultural
institutions are asking volunteers and interns to do work once
handled by pai... |
3bcc2ad75e6f5a0e8128e05119e81417 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166348 | At the Last Minute the ISIS Captor Had Lowered His Demands and We Had Rescued Fayza from Certain Death in Mosul | At the Last Minute the ISIS Captor Had Lowered His Demands and We Had Rescued Fayza from Certain Death in Mosul
Fayza being driven to freedom after her rescue.
It
began with an electrifying text message from a Yazidi member of a
network dedicated to freeing Yazidis (an ancient race from Northern
Iraq that adhere to ... |
a29ee48bd1f5255ca01e9669bc503430 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166640 | The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer | The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer
In
1898, the United States won a quick victory in the Spanish American
War and liberated Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam from
Spanish colonial rule. But the war sparked the greatest foreign policy
debate in American history as best mi... |
6cdac1ff755bed2098bc21c0422c911a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166864 | Lessons from German History after Charlottesville | Lessons from German History after Charlottesville
Related Link HNN's Full Coverage of Charlottesville Updated Continuously
The
first eight months of Trump create a dilemma for a historian of
modern German history. If you raise the specter of Hitler, ask what
Trump has in common with fascism in the past and make comp... |
f7f4b3d2528cc83691d7ae55449deb1f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167070 | #CouscousGate? | #CouscousGate?
We
haven’t heard a lot in the U.S. about the far-right anti-immigrant
Front National since their leader Marine Le Pen lost the French
presidential election to Emmanuel Macron back in May. But the Front
National is still in the news in France, mostly for growing divisions
within the party over tone a... |
ab1f43572de4ed698e7a87ac00497f49 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167075 | Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West | Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West
When Hurricane Irma smashed into Key West, Fla., author Shel Silverstein’s historic home was nearly leveled. But it was another home in his neighborhood that had Brewster Chamberlin, a writer and historian, worried.
His friend Sandra Spanier was also nervous. Not only bec... |
5b4d85688e269eda78a61e987fb29641 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167290 | Trump Is the New ________ | Trump Is the New ________
Every historian worries over presentism — the tendency for contemporary sentiment to distort the study of the past. Some call it projection. In graduate school, it’s teleology, or what the French historian Marc Bloch dubbed "the most unpardonable of sins: anachronism." And so, lightly we tread... |
15b09fd5a39554e21c6d560aebecefeb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167596 | The Damage Trump Has Done | The Damage Trump Has Done
President Reagan believed deeply that the United States had a mystical, even providential mission to stand before the world as a beacon of democracy and opportunity. He spoke often of America as the "shining city upon a hill," its eminence enlarged by the generations of immigrants who had arri... |
488e0d98e6975024ce3bedf364d1fe19 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167654 | Tax Plan Aims to Slay a Reagan Target: The Government Beast | Tax Plan Aims to Slay a Reagan Target: The Government Beast
It was the spring of 1985 when President Ronald Reagan first proposed to put an end to the state and local tax deduction. The idea was, to be sure, politically tricky. The provision had been around since the creation of the federal income tax in 1913, the budg... |
581b62e4441836b44243be65231a4726 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167713 | No one should be surprised by journalism’s sexual harassment problem | No one should be surprised by journalism’s sexual harassment problem
Remember when it was just Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly? Over the past month, the news media has been central to the country’s weekly installments of Men Behaving Badly. We’ve seen the fall of the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, political commentator Mark Ha... |
ff287b2a76abd6cdbb1fa8f8de898470 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167740 | Re-watching Joe Biden’s disastrous Anita Hill hearing: A sexual harassment inquisition | Re-watching Joe Biden’s disastrous Anita Hill hearing: A sexual harassment inquisition
Sen. Joseph R. Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, lost control of the biggest moment yet in his political career — the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings — moments after Anita Hill finished describing what the... |
f3efc0ff3827a9beb3ffb09b77f474ce | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167759 | Why We Shouldn’t Let the #MeToo Movement Change History | Why We Shouldn’t Let the #MeToo Movement Change History
As if by unspoken assent, we’ve adopted a name for our overdue reckoning with sexual harassment and assault: It’s the “Me Too Moment.” “Me too,” everyone knows, comes from the Twitter hashtag by which women are sharing their experiences with sexual predators of va... |
b18d525c8329400330cfa12d0bcc06ca | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167764 | Columbia Professor Retires in Settlement of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit | Columbia Professor Retires in Settlement of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Dr. William V. Harris, a renowned Greco-Roman historian and longtime professor at Columbia University, retired on Monday as part of the settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit.
The retirement, which Columbia announced in an email to students and fa... |
10409feb59330fa238c955099c6873dc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167769 | We Have to Go Beyond Identifying and Punishing Individual Men | We Have to Go Beyond Identifying and Punishing Individual Men
Harvey Weinstein, Roy Moore, Charlie Rose
As controversy swirls in the wake of
the revelations about the abuses of women by powerful men in the
arts, politics, media, academia, restaurants and elsewhere come to
light, it is important to remember that we a... |
0ad15dead9c48d4358285a31d626df53 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167773 | The Father of Modern Libraries Was a Serial Sexual Harasser | The Father of Modern Libraries Was a Serial Sexual Harasser
Adelaide Hasse was used to professional challenges. As a young woman, she struggled to be taken seriously by mostly male executive boards. She created a groundbreaking new way to classify government documents—and was disappointed when a male colleague claimed ... |
35d25ce3f3adaa88a1f7a5410fa607ad | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167779 | UC Berkeley settles sex harassment claim against Middle East scholar for $80,000 | UC Berkeley settles sex harassment claim against Middle East scholar for $80,000
Nezar AlSayyad, a tenured architecture professor and an internationally recognized Middle East scholar, remains employed at UC Berkeley more than a year after an independent investigator determined that he sexually harassed his former stud... |
db9ce3a811271796dc595fe89b39aaa3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167810 | Liberals, make some distinctions | Liberals, make some distinctions
When you hear “zero tolerance,” what do you think?
Until very recently, good liberals gave the term a bad rap. It conjured draconian school-discipline rules, which led to a disproportionate number of suspensions for students of color. And it resonated with the broken-windows philosophy ... |
a1c3b7f8a5bee8a75a90a8bb9e15236f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167823 | The Austrian Scientist Time Forgot Because He Was a Jew | The Austrian Scientist Time Forgot Because He Was a Jew
The
Austrian chemist Ferdinand Münz (1888-1969) invented and synthetized
EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) in 1935 and was also the
author of many patents in the textile field, whose trademarks still
exist today.
So,
what exactly is EDTA? Long story shor... |
c52fa9072a1ec6386d8269d3798b13a8 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167871 | Do Historians Have a Sexual Harassment Problem? | Do Historians Have a Sexual Harassment Problem?
Related Link Sexual Harassment: AHA to Survey Its Members By Rick Shenkman
After the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke a columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education wondered if academia has a sexual harassment problem. She asked readers to relate their personal stories.... |
08b95c538a088f12d7c86b65a66a9d82 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/167940 | Until 1975, ‘Sexual Harassment’ Was the Menace With No Name | Until 1975, ‘Sexual Harassment’ Was the Menace With No Name
Rain poured down in Ithaca, New York, but the women who streamed into the Greater Ithaca Activities Center on May 4, 1975 weren’t daunted by a bit of weather. Hundreds of women packed into the modest room. Then they began tospeak about their experiences being ... |
d8184278e3ee21d4b6907439e93fb892 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168020 | What a medieval love saga says about modern-day sexual harassment | What a medieval love saga says about modern-day sexual harassment
The tomb of Abelard and Héloise.
Alexandre Lenoir, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Suddenly, popular media is saturated with stories of powerful men outed by women for behavior in the workplace. These alleged harassers seem to assume that power ... |
25f36bbd790a1d47ec4c2569717b8be2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168060 | 20 years since America’s shock over Clinton-Lewinsky affair, public discussions on sexual harassment are changing | 20 years since America’s shock over Clinton-Lewinsky affair, public discussions on sexual harassment are changing
Twenty years ago, major news outlets reported allegations that then-President Bill Clinton had a sexual relationship with a 22-year-old White House intern.
Looking back, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair heralded... |
54d0e17ac1f42bb710343f99e29e8f62 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168216 | They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story | They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story
As more Americans take advantage of genetic testing to pinpoint the makeup of their DNA, the technology is coming head to head with the country’s deep-rooted obsession with race and racial myths. This is perhaps no more true than for the growing ... |
02deb1713ce9c1c87647d082ae30e366 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168218 | DNA Tests on an Ancient Skeleton Reveal the First Briton Was Black, Not White | DNA Tests on an Ancient Skeleton Reveal the First Briton Was Black, Not White
The first person known to have lived in Britain had dark skin, according to cutting-edge scientific analysis from London’s Natural History Museum.
In research that may raise eyebrows among modern-day white nationalists, scientists used DNA an... |
98bbeefec31492dadc7517df75f8120e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168298 | Writer Makes the Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas | Writer Makes the Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas
... Thomas’s inappropriate behavior — talking about porn in the office, commenting on the bodies of the women he worked with — was more wide-ranging than was apparent during the sensational Senate hearings, with their strange Coke-can details.
But, most of all, becau... |
8a500f35f6274792584d94bdc24a2e4d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168306 | Was Pirate Black Sam Bellamy Found? DNA Test Could Tell | Was Pirate Black Sam Bellamy Found? DNA Test Could Tell
Researchers are working to use DNA to identify whether a human bone recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck belongs to the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy.
The Whydah (WIH'-duh) Pirate Museum in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, publicly displayed the bone Monday. I... |
d307602e12d37946146f43aa14cda2ea | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168340 | AHA President Mary Beth Norton says ending sexual harassment is a high priority | AHA President Mary Beth Norton says ending sexual harassment is a high priority
Related Link Background to the AHA’s decision
In fall 2017, as allegations of sexual harassment flooded into public view from women (and some men) employed in movies, television, journalism, and politics, behavior in academe and the histori... |
9f027d343732464f250245d36e90b0cb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168346 | Seven Books Named as Finalists for the 2018 George Washington Prize | Seven Books Named as Finalists for the 2018 George Washington Prize
CHESTERTOWN, MD – Seven books published in 2017 by the country’s most prominent historians have been named finalists for the George Washington Prize. The annual award recognizes the past year’s best-written works on the nation’s founding era, especiall... |
84552f1a71c50d7f5864c21341e1c98e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168384 | Review of Elaine Weiss’s “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote” | Review of Elaine Weiss’s “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote”
Just
in time for Woman’s History Month, The
Woman’s Hour
by Elaine Weiss tells the story of how Tennessee became the
thirty-sixth state to ratify woman’s suffrage and made the
Nineteenth Amendment the supreme law of the land. Although w... |
4471ea2e8f9ea16b68bee922929e4dc3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168492 | “Black Panther” Rewrites the Moment of the Original Colonial Encounter with Africa | “Black Panther” Rewrites the Moment of the Original Colonial Encounter with Africa
The Marvel Comics movie, Black
Panther, is more than a feel-good movie moment for Africans and
people of African descent. It is a bold counterpoint to the
intellectual and psychic violence of Afro-pessimism and
Afro-defeatism.
Afro-p... |
9990ebde9d24f6097c7f03cb8aab7984 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168499 | UCLA historian Gabriel Piterberg is out for sexual harassment | UCLA historian Gabriel Piterberg is out for sexual harassment
In 2017, after an extensive investigation, the UCLA Title IX Office found that Prof. Gabriel Piterberg committed sexual harassment in violation of University sexual harassment policy by making unwelcome comments of a sexual nature and unwelcome physical cond... |
dbdc1f31c293abaa227ca544d75b570b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168517 | Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History | Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History
Geneticist David Reich used to study the living, but now he studies the dead.
The precipitating event came in the form of 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found in a Croatian cave. So well-preserved were the bones that they yielded enough DNA for sequencing, and... |
42c1711d2d58793aafcec075d42b8132 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168521 | ‘Colorado College’s Own Harvey Weinstein’ | ‘Colorado College’s Own Harvey Weinstein’
As William F. Slocum left the presidency of Colorado College a century ago, he was awarded an honorary degree. Two buildings were later named for him, in recognition of the nearly 30 years he served as president, years in which he is widely credited with saving the college from... |
c328a6a26a13369a6e3a24d798f9a659 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168544 | Why We Think of Babe Ruth as an Overgrown Boy and Why We’re Wrong | Why We Think of Babe Ruth as an Overgrown Boy and Why We’re Wrong
Baseball
season soon will be upon us again, and all elements appear in place
for a resurgence of the national game. In the past, baseball’s
popularity flourished in times of national division, the game
providing comforting connection, tradition, and ... |
5ea55a0e125985811ec98f0b38a18678 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168559 | Geneticist at Harvard Medical School has retrieved DNA from more than 900 ancient people. | Geneticist at Harvard Medical School has retrieved DNA from more than 900 ancient people.
In less than three years, Dr. [David] Reich’s laboratory has published DNA from the genomes of 938 ancient humans — more than all other research teams working in this field combined. The work in his lab [at Harvard] has reshaped o... |
d7338daba6ddb5a45a03d7f6822745cd | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168568 | What You May Not Realize About the Supreme Court Ruling that Backed Affirmative Action | What You May Not Realize About the Supreme Court Ruling that Backed Affirmative Action
Regents
v. Bakke turns 40 this year, no small feat given the numerous
assaults levelled at it by students rejected from their colleges of
choice based on their race (or so they believe). Even the Supreme
Court itself has cast a ... |
d5e45d272a88b3de00d4c6e2498a0f8a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168599 | What Americans Think About Presidential Scandals Like the Stormy Daniels Story Has Changed | What Americans Think About Presidential Scandals Like the Stormy Daniels Story Has Changed
For about as long as the country has existed, the public and the press have imposed few consequences on Presidents for what they do behind closed doors, even when those actions become public, as long as those actions don’t affect... |
2e9d743a886366bd30efd77813bcd2ac | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168637 | His Life-Changing Moment Came at Age 5: An Interview with Historian Peter H. Wood | His Life-Changing Moment Came at Age 5: An Interview with Historian Peter H. Wood
Peter H. Wood is professor emeritus of history at Duke University. He was educated at Oxford and Harvard, where he earned a PhD in 1972. He is the author of many books including Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1... |
2d03a8a3806083870285ae1fa85f0456 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168757 | Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians: 2018 | Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians: 2018
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13b8e72c0b420059972d28586dca0f61 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168762 | Video of the Week: Why we need government regulation | Video of the Week: Why we need government regulation
During the early part of the 20th century, the growing scientific knowledge that certain diseases were caused by vitamin and mineral deficiencies sparked public interest in products that touted these substances. But the public had little understanding of this emergi... |
ee4ccb01e319c6a359148b43858db031 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168765 | Historian discovers he’s related to the people he’s written a book about | Historian discovers he’s related to the people he’s written a book about
At a time when history has never been so widely and blissfully ignored, and not just by our president, millions of Americans are busy spitting into DNA-collection tubes, scrutinizing old newspapers and tracing their family history back as far as t... |
8ac99441a9467bb26da2e18f9a68602b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168788 | The Founders Worried too, About Foreign Meddling in Our Elections | The Founders Worried too, About Foreign Meddling in Our Elections
In December of 1787, leading American statesmen Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were both stationed in Europe on behalf of their fledgling country. Adams had been named the first U.S. minister to Great Britain in February, 1785 and Thomas Jefferson serve... |
63af1cb2af46d928082a21758d82c6a9 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168791 | Why No One Should Be Shocked at Paul Ryan’s Retirement | Why No One Should Be Shocked at Paul Ryan’s Retirement
Related Link The End of the Strong Speaker By Julian Zelizer
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) public announcement that he will not seek reelection in 2018 is important, but not entirely surprising. His campaign war chest is substantial, as always, and he labors a... |
cb62e73d3b6a51c27e60a401a5af39dc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168821 | Lost in Battle, Found by Amateur Sleuths: An ‘Unknown’ Marine | Lost in Battle, Found by Amateur Sleuths: An ‘Unknown’ Marine
A mystery that went unsolved for 73 years began when Herman Mulligan threw a grenade.
In the thick of some of the most vicious fighting of World War II, on the island of Okinawa, Private First Class Mulligan’s grenade clattered into the dark maw of a Japanes... |
80021b70868aa5bccd689e85baf10b4e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168847 | Review of Tony Fels’s “Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt” | Review of Tony Fels’s “Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt”
The Salem witchcraft trials of the 1690s continue to resonate in American political and popular culture as is evident in the almost daily tweets of President Donald Trump that investigations in... |
9b5969f0454da6fb37d379d20aff6c22 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168871 | Are Historians Still Ambivalent About Getting Published Online? | Are Historians Still Ambivalent About Getting Published Online?
Cambridge University Digital History Seminar graphic
As earlier reportson historians’ use of technology demonstrated, most historians are gathering materials, analyzing their findings, and writing their scholarship in digital form. Curiously, however, a na... |
28cb9832c34f3ed2f8117fc194157c18 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168882 | Raw Fish and Tapeworms: Ancient Latrines Reveal the Diets of Our Ancestors | Raw Fish and Tapeworms: Ancient Latrines Reveal the Diets of Our Ancestors
It's Denmark, 1020 AD and you’re putting your feet up after a long day of pillaging with your Viking friends. What’s on the table for dinner, you ask? Beer, buckwheat and undercooked fish—all sprinkled with a heady seasoning of parasites.
Scient... |
503deea14105c4d730977ead0f39d126 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168890 | Unraveling the Genetic History of a First Nations People | Unraveling the Genetic History of a First Nations People
... From an evolutionary standpoint, it was not long ago that the Tsimshian people of modern-day Alaska and British Columbia were first confronted with European settlers—roughly 175 years, a mere handful of generations out of the Tsimshian’s 6,000-year American h... |
114f2350280a296f138a526970122839 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168935 | Maya Little, PhD student at UNC, arrested for defacing Confederate monument with red ink and blood | Maya Little, PhD student at UNC, arrested for defacing Confederate monument with red ink and blood
Maya Little a UNC history PhD student put her blood and red ink on silent Sam 5-10 minutes ago @Move_Silent_Sam @ABC11_WTVD @MicahAHughes @WNCN @WRAL pic.twitter.com/eLiC3zjXrg— Samee Siddiqui (@ssiddiqui83) April 30, 201... |
190e609a6e9327bd540450e2ccf7e311 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168959 | With Emmett Till Reference, Camille Cosby Invokes Oft-Used Cultural Touchstone | With Emmett Till Reference, Camille Cosby Invokes Oft-Used Cultural Touchstone
When Camille Cosby, the wife of Bill Cosby, issued a scathing statementon Thursday denouncing the verdict that found her husband guilty of sexual assault, she painted him as a casualty of an unfair, racist system. She blamed the media, the p... |
c4d0a485e9696b19d223b0033cd7f037 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169054 | Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays? | Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?
Sir John Gilbert's 1849 painting: The Plays of Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare's plays.
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? It was not William Shakespeare. Macbeth? Not Shakespeare. Hamlet? Guess again. A group of conspiracy theorists start... |
e0c8cebed2d15f0045a96b275fba9507 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169115 | Historians Debate Which President Leonardo DiCaprio Should Play | Historians Debate Which President Leonardo DiCaprio Should Play
"Of all the American lives that need telling on screen in 2018, Grant and TR wouldn’t make my top 500." -- Jill Lepore https://t.co/a9gr4OAYvK— Kevin M. Levin (@KevinLevin) May 22, 2018
The Oscar winner has Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant biopics line... |
5635f64d081fe97385ea302fed0e874d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169156 | Unlike Obama, Trump Has No Moral Compass | Unlike Obama, Trump Has No Moral Compass
Suggesting that President Trump lacks a “moral compass” is not a new criticism. But this charge requires further exploration. The fault is twofold. The first is a personal failing, the second a societal one. We shall examine both of these dimensions in some detail, but first sev... |
4285e050cfc53d1a35b0a5c619cf284f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169230 | What Ruined Frederick Douglass as a Slave? | What Ruined Frederick Douglass as a Slave?
It was reading, said his master. That’s worth remembering as we debate the importance of a liberal education.
In the past few years, alarm about the decline of the liberal arts, especially the humanities, has become a constant refrain. At the university level, they are often s... |
75c927fd63a8f039e7184d6d5b79cc0f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169325 | Trump Is Terrorizing Children | Trump Is Terrorizing Children
Thousands of immigrant children held in U.S. shelters
In recent days, millions of Americans have seen the shocking, heartbreaking images of children—crying, screaming, hysterical children—being ripped from the arms of their parents and sent away to a newly constructed camp in the Texas des... |
545049a3aba800c21fd7d56cb8cc4eb5 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169368 | The Tragic, Too-Soon Death of Quentin Roosevelt | The Tragic, Too-Soon Death of Quentin Roosevelt
Sunday morning, July 14th, 1918.
It’s Bastille Day—and, somewhere in France, a fledging, twenty-year old American aviator named Quentin Roosevelt is scampering into his single-seat French-made, wooden-and-canvas Nieuport-28 aeroplane for … nothing less than a rendezvous w... |
7cce8b5b7ed49c1a5b57173b5288711b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169404 | Supreme Court’s Travel-Ban Includes Surprise Ruling: Japanese Internment Was Wrong | Supreme Court’s Travel-Ban Includes Surprise Ruling: Japanese Internment Was Wrong
In Tuesday’s majority opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Supreme Court also overturned a long-criticized decision that had upheld the constitutionality of Japanese-American internment during World War II.
Justice ... |
4700adb62e56bdcdbe33fdf3b26601ff | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169464 | Mexicans Made America—Why Do We Treat Them Like Alien Invaders? | Mexicans Made America—Why Do We Treat Them Like Alien Invaders?
Mexicans have contributed to making the United States in pivotal and enduring ways. In 1776, more of the territory of the current United States was under Spanish sovereignty than in the 13 colonies that rejected British rule. Florida, the Gulf coast to New... |
a86edd27de9d71da523f42cd6156c69a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169528 | Obama Tops Public’s List of Best President in Their Lifetime, Followed by Clinton, Reagan | Obama Tops Public’s List of Best President in Their Lifetime, Followed by Clinton, Reagan
When asked which president has done the best job in their lifetimes, more Americans name Barack Obama than any other president. More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or second best president of their lifetimes, compare... |
2ce21fa7684eaed0a4c4122acee54a46 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169536 | How European colonization completely wiped out dogs in America | How European colonization completely wiped out dogs in America
Before Europeans started colonising the Americas around 500 years ago, the land was populated by native human inhabitants and the animals living alongside them.
Now, exhaustive DNA studies have unearthed the troubling history of dogs in North America – and ... |
cf84b5649f82940b80112e2607938343 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169577 | DNA Analysis Confirms Authenticity of Romanovs’ Remains | DNA Analysis Confirms Authenticity of Romanovs’ Remains
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the execution of Nicholas II and his family, an event that toppled Russia’s Romanov dynasty. Yesterday, as the country was preparing to commemorate their deaths, Russian investigators announced that new DNA testing had confirme... |
e53b88aebf35819126d171ba1963cd4b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169694 | Trump says he doesn’t take vacations | Trump says he doesn’t take vacations
President Trump is expected to take a vacation from Washington this month to this Bedminster, N.J., golf club. Last year, he took a 17-day trip to the club. But don’t call these retreats “vacations.” Trump hates vacations.
“Don’t take vacations. What’s the point? If you’re not enjoy... |
93eab1c44532020ac4ef4aea5a976af7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169705 | Jim Loewen says history classes helped create a "Post-Truth” America | Jim Loewen says history classes helped create a "Post-Truth” America
Related Link What James Loewen Needs to Learn About History Education By John Fea
… [With] the release this summer of a new paperback version of Lies My Teacher Told Me, [James] Loewen contends that his bestselling book has “new significance … owing t... |
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