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6/9/19
Material History and A Victorian Riddle Retold
by Amy G. Richter
A historian of nineteenth-century American culture, I study the significance ordinary women and men gave to furniture, art, and decoration. Recently my mother's dementia challenged my scholarship by reminding me of the personal meanings of objects and the intimate work they do.
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6/9/19
What the Feud and Reconciliation between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Teaches Us About Civility
by Mike Purdy
The history of presidential insults cause us to reflect how we should treat one another – not only in the public square, but around the family dinner table, in our marriages, and in the workplace.
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6/9/19
Arbella Bet-Shlimon Got Into History to Counter False Perceptions of Middle East Region
by Erik Moshe
She had a goal when she first started out in history: to use teaching, scholarship, and research to help offset spurious ideas that foster cruelty to Middle Easterners in the United States and prolong destructive foreign policy abroad.
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6/2/19
Remembering Murray Polner (1928-2019)
by Ralph Seliger
“Murray played a big role at HNN and was instrumental in our success."
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6/2/19
Witch Hunt! How Europe’s Witch Mania Came to the New World
by Elisa Carbone
Witch hunts in the New World began in Virginia, though Virginia’s alleged witches were imprisoned rather than executed.
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6/2/19
The Bund was far from Perfect. It still matters to Jewish History
by Joshua Meyers
The Bund embodied the aspirations and identity of millions of Jews for five decades and provided serious answers to the questions Jews faced then and now.
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6/2/19
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Mark Weisenmiller
by Erik Moshe
"Historians should have perseverance, a strong set of eyes, and an unimaginably long reading list."
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5/26/19
Where Did the Indigenous Community Mothers Go?
by Candace Wellman
Indigenous community mothers seem to have been an uncomfortable truth for historians and other writers that did not fit with the Euro-American mythology they sought to build around “the first white woman” in town. The result was their now-conspicuous absence.
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5/26/19
For Anti-Racist Educator, Teaching History Was a Calling
by Erik Moshe
The most valuable history is often the most difficult to find; it is what we don’t even know that we need to know that gets us into trouble.
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5/19/19
Thomas Harriot and the lost North Carolina Algonquian Language
by Robyn Arianrhod
In this UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, here is the story of a pioneering linguist and ethnographer.
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5/19/19
Remembering Jackie Kennedy for More than Her Fashion Sense
by Lisa M. Burns
She was the architect who meticulously crafted President John F. Kennedy’s lasting legacy.
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5/12/19
George Mason: Lost Founder
by William G. Hyland Jr.
Why George Mason rightly deserves to be considered one of the fathers of our national government.
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5/12/19
The Remarkable History of the Union League Club
by Michael Hogan
Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond.
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5/12/19
Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church
by Quincy D. Newell
Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.
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5/12/19
Carolyn Forché: Bearing Witness to the Wounds of History
by Robin Lindley
A Conversation with Renowned Poet and Human Rights Activist Carolyn Forché on Her New Memoir, Mass Trauma, History, and the Plight of Refugees Today.
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5/12/19
When War Was a Family Affair
by Walter R. Borneman
The stories of family members who served on the same Naval ships in World War II.
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5/12/19
In Dalmatia, Distant Pasts Influence the Present
by Erik Moshe
The ancient past is usually well-hidden underground. The medieval past rarely makes an appearance. However, in Dalmatia, ancient, medieval and the early modern past are inextricably intertwined, and visible on every corner.
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5/14/19
The D-Day Warriors Who Led The Way to Victory in World War ll
by Alex Kershaw
An excerpt from The First Wave.
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5/5/19
Navassa Island: The U.S.’s 160-year Forgotten Tragedy
by Ken Lawrence
Both the U.S. and Haiti claim the island. Here's why its history matters.
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5/5/19
An Interview with Historian Michael Adas
by Tiffany April Griffin
Adas discusses why he chose to write about the Vietnam War and his advice for young historians.
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