Historians/History

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• 10-1-17
  

  What Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Want Us to Believe Is that Americans Were Innocents in Vietnam

  by Ron Briley

  We weren’t and our history of imperialism proves it.

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• 10-1-17
  

  Why I Decided to Make Hatred the Subject of a Talk to the General Public

  by Jeff Kleiman

  It’s because if you want to understand Charlottesville, it helps to understand our history of hatred.

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• 9-29-17
  

  What’s Missing From the Vietnam War Documentary?

  by Jeffrey P. Kimball

  Why the US waged war in Vietnam.

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• 9-24-17
  

  Could the Governor’s Race in Virginia Turn on the Question of Confederate Monuments?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  It might. History shows why history and politics don’t mix well.

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• Ken Burns’s War Stories

  by Bob Buzzanco

  He’s more storyteller than historian and that weakens his series considerably.

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• 9-18-17
  

  What Historians Are Saying About the New Vietnam War Documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

  The 10 part documentary is being broadcast on PBS.

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• 9-17-17
  

  This Year’s NYC Mayoral Election: Boring. Not So 100 Years Ago!

  by David Pietrusza

  When Red Mike crushed the Boy Mayor (who later got a hero’s funeral when he died in a plane accident while serving in World War 1).

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• 9-17-17
  

  Few Want to Admit It, but the French Saved America During the Revolution

  by Tom Shachtman

  Myths stop us from conceding the truth.

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• 10-1-17
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview with Archaeologist (and Historian) Joyce Tyldesley

  by Erik Moshe

  “Tyldesley’s Law”: “Any theory about the behavior, beliefs and abilities of the ancient Egyptians, no matter how unlikely, will be accepted as truth by someone.”

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• 10-1-17
  

  Two Universities Examined a Founder's Role in the Sand Creek Massacre

  by Billy J. Stratton

  Why did they arrive at different conclusions?

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• 9-11-17
  

  Let’s Keep the Central Park Statue of Dr. James Marion Sims

  by Steven Lomazow

  He’s getting a bum rap from critics.

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• 9-11: Tweets

  Tweets about 9-11 that HNN researchers come across, in reverse chronological order.

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• 10-1-17
  

  What Would Eleanor Roosevelt Tell Us?

  by Nancy Woloch

  A new collection of her writings shows she’s still relevant.

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• 9-24-17
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview with Andrea Zuvich

  by Erik Moshe

  How a kid who grew-up in Florida decided to become a historian of 17th century Stuart England.

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• 9-5-17
  

  The Relevance of History

  by Rick Shenkman

  History's never been more relevant.  That's something all of us need to acknowledge, even the president.

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• 9-10-17
  

  Why We Should Remove the Central Park Statue of Dr. James Marion Sims

  by Alan Singer

  Even by the standards of his own day, his operations on black slave women were abhorrent.

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• 9-10-17
  

  Down with Stonewall Jackson! He’s Just Like Lenin.

  by David Mould

  All around the world statues of historic figures are falling. Removing them is just like editing inconvenient ideas from textbooks.

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• 9-24-17
  

  This Story About the Publishing of Mein Kampf Is Well-Known in France. Americans Need to Know It.

  by Blake Smith

  Rather than fight the publication of Hitler’s memoir, these French anti-Nazis raced to distribute it themselves.

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• 9-17-17
  

  It’s Good to See the Mainstream Media Debunking Conspiracy Claims, but Where Were They Years Ago When RFK’s Death Became Fodder for Nutty Stories?

  by Mel Ayton

  Hopefully they’ll do better next year on the 50th anniversary.

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• 10-1-17
  

  What Happened to the People Behind the Assassination of Che Guevara?

  by Jonathan C. Brown

  50 years later, we know.