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Interview: Joyce Berkman on the Value of History and the Historian's Mindset
Joyce Avrech Berkman is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Department of History where she was a faculty member for 48 years (1965-2013). She is the co-founder of the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies department. Professor Berkman holds a PhD (1967) from Yale University and is a feminist teacher and activist.
Richard Minear Reflects on Teaching History, Including Teaching Vietnamese History during the Vietnam War
Dr. Minear grew up in Newton outside of Boston and his wife was born in Northampton. He taught at Ohio State University from 1967 to 1970. “That was prime Vietnam time,” he said. “Columbus, Ohio is distinctly not New England. Ohio State is a huge school.” He also taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1971 to 2008. Dr. Minear graciously answered questions via phone about history, his career, teaching, and what he is doing now while in retirement.
How Can Historians Serve and Learn From the Public?
Annette Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire. Learn more about her work at her website. You can also find her on Twitter at @AnnetteJosephG What books are you reading now? I am currently re-reading Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America.
How Can Historians Serve and Learn From the Public?
Annette Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire. Learn more about her work at her website. You can also find her on Twitter at @AnnetteJosephG What books are you reading now? I am currently re-reading Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America.
The Best Work in History Illuminates Life Now: An Interview with Angela Woollacott
Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University, an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a former president of the Australian Historical Association. Hernew book Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2019) was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant.
The Used Bookstore Find that Inspired A History of Dress and Fashion
What books are you reading now? I have such a mix going on right now. I have a book to review: Ken Kersch’s Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism. He’s arguing that conservatives of various stripes created a coherent and popular tale of the meaning and history of the constitution in the years after World War II when liberalism was dominant.
These American Political Bachelors Were Known as ‘Siamese Twins’ During the Antebellum Era
Thomas J. Balcerski is an Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University and the author of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, an original dual biography. He received his PhD in history from Cornell University in 2014. Why did neither James Buchanan or William Rufus King ever marry? They were lifelong bachelors. And how unusual were they for not getting married?
These American Political Bachelors Were Known as ‘Siamese Twins’ During the Antebellum Era
Thomas J. Balcerski is an Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University and the author of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, an original dual biography. He received his PhD in history from Cornell University in 2014. Why did neither James Buchanan or William Rufus King ever marry? They were lifelong bachelors. And how unusual were they for not getting married?
American Historian Claire Arcenas on John Locke, Teaching, and More
Claire Rydell Arcenas is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Montana. An American historian, Claire’s interests include transatlantic intellectual, cultural, and political exchange between the late seventeenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. Her latest book is Locke in America (under contract with the University of Chicago Press). She received her PhD in history from Stanford University. What books are you reading now?
Eastern European Historian Emanuela Grama on Romania’s Heritage
Emanuela Grama is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her PhD in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2010. Her first book, Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania is currently in production Indiana University Press. Visit her website or follow her on Twitter @emanuela_grama. What books are you reading now? I’m currently re-reading Transylvanian Trilogy by Miklos Banffy.
Eastern European Historian Emanuela Grama on Romania’s Heritage
Emanuela Grama is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her PhD in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2010. Her first book, Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania is currently in production Indiana University Press. Visit her website or follow her on Twitter @emanuela_grama. What books are you reading now? I’m currently re-reading Transylvanian Trilogy by Miklos Banffy.
A New History of Islamic Empires Defined Through Illustrious Cities
Justin Marozzi is a travel writer and historian. He is the author The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus, Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World, Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, and other books. His latest book, scheduled for release on August 29, is Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization, From Mecca to Dubai. Visit his website. Find him on Twitter @justinmarozzi. What books are you reading now?
History is a Verb, Something You Do: An Interview with Mark Doyle
Mark Doyle is a historian of Ireland and the British Empire and Professor in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University. What books are you reading now? Because it’s summer, I’m being a bit self-indulgent in my reading. I just finished Ulysses, which, to my shame as an Irish historian, I had never read before.
History is a Verb, Something You Do: An Interview with Mark Doyle
Mark Doyle is a historian of Ireland and the British Empire and Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University. What books are you reading now? Because it’s summer, I’m being a bit self-indulgent in my reading. I just finished Ulysses, which, to my shame as an Irish historian, I had never read before.
History Provides a Critical Thinking ‘Toolbox’ for Students: An Interview with Ortal-Paz Saar
Ortal-Paz Saar is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University where she specializes in religious studies and Jewish cultural history. What books are you reading now? Yesterday I finished A Pale View of Hills by Katzuo Ishiguro, which I read slowly, so as to “save” it for as long as possible. It is a true masterpiece, from every imaginable point of view. It could make a very good horror film, meaning an intelligent, not a scary one.
Who Says Historians Can’t Travel Back in Time?
Ricky Law is a historian of interwar Germany and Japan and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. What books are you reading now? My book, Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936, was just published. I still can’t help but read passages from it to come up with possible improvements.
Arbella Bet-Shlimon Got Into History to Counter False Perceptions of Middle East Region
Arbella Bet-Shlimon is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington, a historian of the modern Middle East, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and an affiliate of the Jackson School's Middle East Center. Arbella’s research and teaching focuses on the politics, society and economy of twentieth-century Iraq and the broader Persian Gulf region, as well as Middle Eastern urban history.
Arbella Bet-Shlimon Got Into History to Counter False Perceptions of Middle East Region
Arbella Bet-Shlimon is a historian of the modern Middle East, an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and an affiliate of the Jackson School's Middle East Center. Arbella’s research and teaching focuses on the politics, society and economy of twentieth-century Iraq and the broader Persian Gulf region, as well as Middle Eastern urban history.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Mark Weisenmiller
Born in Pittsburgh in 1963 (four days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy), Mark Weisenmiller graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1985. He is an author-historian-reporter. Previous employers include United Press International (UPI); Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA); Agence France Presse (AFP); Inter Press Service (IPS); the international news wire service, based in Beijing, China, known as the Xinhua News Agency (XNA), and The Economist.
For Anti-Racist Educator, Teaching History Was a Calling
Tobin Miller Shearer is the Director of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Montana and an Associate Professor of History. He conducts research into the history of race and religion in the United States with an emphasis on prayer, the civil rights movement, and white identity. What books are you reading now? I just finished a week-long reading marathon while my partner was out of town.
Into the Teeth of the Dragon’s Jaw in Vietnam
DRAGON’S JAW INTERVIEW HISTORY NEWS NETWORK Into the Teeth of the Dragon’s Jaw in Vietnam by Erik Moshe Erik Moshe is an HNN Features Editor. What’s worse: a wall of antiaircraft artillery fire and surface-to-air missiles, a relentless amount of enemy MiG planes on your tail, or the reality that the war being waged is unwinnable? How about a target that just can’t be taken down for the duration of an entire long conflict?
Into the Teeth of the Dragon’s Jaw in Vietnam
What’s worse: a wall of antiaircraft artillery fire and surface-to-air missiles, a relentless amount of enemy MiG planes on your tail, or the reality that the war being waged is unwinnable? How about a target that just can’t be taken down for the duration of an entire long conflict?
In Dalmatia, Distant Pasts Influence the Present
Danijel Dzino is an Associate Lecturer in the Departments of Ancient History and International Studies (Croatian Studies) and a member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centreat Macquarie University. Danijel was born within the ancient borders of the Roman civitas Daesitiatum, in provincia Dalmatia. He received his PhD in Classics at the University of Adelaide.
Aram Goudsouzian: Study History, Then Make It
Aram Goudsouzian is the chair of the History Department at the University of Memphis and the editor of the “Sport and Society” series published by the University of Illinois Press.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian of Mexico Pablo Piccato
Pablo Piccato got his B.A. in History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in 1989, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. He is professor at the Department of History, Columbia University where he teaches on Latin America, Mexico and the history of crime. His research focuses on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian of Mexico Pablo Piccato
Pablo Piccato got his B.A. in History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in 1989, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. He is professor at the Department of History, Columbia University where he teaches on Latin America, Mexico and the history of crime. His research focuses on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Environmental Historian Eleonora Rohland
Eleonora Rohland is Assistant Professor for Entangled History in the Americas (16th-19th centuries) at Bielefeld University, Germany. Rohland was trained as an environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She received her PhD from the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, in 2014 and was a doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) from 2008-2014.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Environmental Historian Eleonora Rohland
Eleonora Rohland is Assistant Professor for Entangled History in the Americas (16th-19th centuries) at Bielefeld University, Germany. Rohland was trained as an environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She received her PhD from the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, in 2014 and was a doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) from 2008-2014.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Civil War Historian Anne Sarah Rubin
Anne Sarah Rubin is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she teaches courses on the Civil War, American South, and the Nineteenth Century United States. She is also the Associate Director of the Imaging Research Center. Find her at her website. What books are you reading now?
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Public Historian Amanda Higgins
Amanda Higgins is a public history administrator, working outside the academy. She often describes herself as academic-adjacent. Her work is closely aligned with academic pursuits and she loves talking with students, especially graduate students who are thinking about careers outside the academy. A scholar of 20th-century Kentucky and American history, Amanda’s understanding of the not-so-distant past helps her to connect to and build lasting relationships with people across the commonwealth.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Russianist Historian Katherine Antonova
Katherine Pickering Antonova is Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, Queens College. She is the author of An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the forthcoming Essential Guide to Writing History for Students (Oxford University Press, 2019) as well as A Consumer's Guide to Information: How to Avoid Losing Your Mind on the Internet (Amazon, 2016). What books are you reading now?
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Nikki Taylor
Dr. Nikki M. Taylor is a Professor of U.S. History and Chair of the Department of History at Howard University. She earned her PhD in U.S. History (and a certificate in Women’s Studies) from Duke University. Her research focus is 19th Century History, with a special focus on the History of Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery, Women’s, and Urban History.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Cultural Historian Surekha Davies
Surekha Davies is a cultural historian specializing in science, visual and material culture, and the entangled connections between Europe and the wider world, particularly the Americas. She is currently the InterAmericas Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library. She formerly taught at Western Connecticut State University, where she was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2018.
The Historian Who Fell in Love with Africa
The medieval churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia, are carved into a rocky mountain range and appear almost dreamlike as the sun sets on them. Merrick Posnansky looked at them in awe. He had never seen anything like it. When the ABC network consulted with the historian and archaeologist years ago for advice on which new places could be included in a new list of the Seven Wonders of the World, he suggested the rock-hewn churches at the heart of Ethiopia.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Stacy D. Fahrenthold is a historian of Middle Eastern migrations, and she is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at University of California, Davis. Her book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 (OUP, March 2019), examines the politics and activism of a half million Ottoman subjects in the Americas when their home empire fell.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Carla Pestana
Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. What books are you reading now? I have a number of different books going at the moment. Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England by Caroline Boswell, a book I agreed to review, came to me because I listed myself as a military historian (among other categories) on the website, Women Also Know History.
What I’m Reading: An Interview with Historian Walter Nugent
Related Link HNN Doyen: Walter Nugent Walter Nugent taught history at the University of Notre Dame for sixteen years and at Indiana University for twenty-one years. He is a past president of the Western History Association and of the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a current member of HNN's advisory board.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Crystal A. deGregory
Erik Moshe is an HNN Features Editor. Crystal A. deGregory, Ph.D. is the inaugural director of the Atwood Institute for Race, Education, and the Democratic Ideal at Kentucky State University, where she is an associate professor of history. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the historic Fisk University, she earned master’s and doctoral degrees in history from Vanderbilt University, and holds an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Tennessee State University. What books are you reading now?
Challenges Historians Face in Africa Today: An Interview With Joseph K. Adjaye
Erik Moshe is an HNN Features Editor. "The discipline of history in Africa is facing a crisis in that it is attracting fewer and fewer students." Dr. Joseph K. Adjaye is Emeritus Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and Professor of History at the University of Ghana, Legon. What was your childhood like? Coming from Africa where higher education is notably low, how did you acquire secondary education?
Meet the Nigerian Historian Who Wants to Recreate Grassroots Communities
Erik Moshe is an HNN Features Editor. Dr. Toyin Falola is an African historian and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Click here for his website. What aspect of practicing and teaching history do you consider to be the most difficult? And what came rather easy?
The Retired Historian Who Writes Travel Books in Rome
Selling encyclopedias in Chicago isn’t a job everyone can say they did as a kid. One of the closing lines salesmen were taught to say was: “If you were to purchase this set, which free gift would you like?” The idea was to get the customer interested in blenders and toasters and then to start signing them up for the encyclopedia.
What I’m Reading: An Interview With Middle East Historian Laura Robson
Laura Robson is a scholar of modern Middle Eastern and international history. Her areas of interest encompass local, regional, and global iterations of internationalism and international governance, modern histories of mass violence, and the politics of ethnicity and religion in the twentieth century Arab world. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and is currently Associate Professor of History at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Visit her website at www.lauracrobson.com.
What I’m Reading: An Interview with Tara Zahra
Tara Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago whose research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, and humanitarianism. She is currently working on two book projects: a history of deglobalization in interwar Europe and a history of the First World War in the Habsburg Empire, co-authored with Pieter Judson.
What I’m Reading: An Interview with Renaissance Historian Stefano Dall’Aglio
Stefano Dall’Aglio is a Senior Research Fellow at the Medici Archive Project (Florence).
Old Lions Department: Architectural Historian Albert Schmidt at 92
The historian who lived a long life is working on a long article—a monograph, perhaps, about city planning and urbanism in provincial Russia, finding and shaping Catherine the Great’s imperial urban space. Born in 1925, Albert Schmidt calls himself a workaholic, and insists he always has been, but he tries to have fun too.
Old Lions Department: An Interview with the Africanist Joseph C. Miller at 78
Erik Moshe is an HNN Features Editor with a BA in English from George Mason University.
The Former Community Organizer and Activist Who Became a Historian
Erik Moshe is an HNN Features Editor. Maurice Jackson is an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies and Affiliated Professor of Music (Jazz) at Georgetown University.
What I'm Reading: An Interview with Chinese Historian Xu Guoqi
Xu Guoqi is Kerry Group professor in Globalization history at the University of Hong Kong. He received his doctoral degree from Harvard University under the supervision of Akira Iriye. He has published widely in both Chinese and English. His book, Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008(Harvard University Press), won the best book prize from the International Society of Olympic Historians.
Turning the Tables: Intelligent Video Analytics in 21st Century Policing
Brian Findlen, Captain, Modesto, California, Police Department Take a moment to imagine what the future could hold: It is 2:00 a.m. in Modesto, California. Among hundreds of video feeds, filtering into the Modesto Police Department’s real-time crime center, one camera detects activity that is deemed abnormal by the software analytics.
Turning the Tables: Intelligent Video Analytics in 21st Century Policing
Take a moment to imagine what the future could hold: It is 2:00 a.m. in Modesto, California. Among hundreds of video feeds, filtering into the Modesto Police Department’s real-time crime center, one camera detects activity that is deemed abnormal by the software analytics. Not a human is in sight, but the intersection-mounted camera observes a vehicle without its headlights on enter the parking lot adjacent to an electronics store and park.
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