It’s not as if anyone listens to historians. But nonetheless, historians are very angry at Trump’s neofascist history project presented last week, a direct attack against us teaching the c
This is the grave of Walter Prescott Webb. Born in 1888 in Panola County, Texas, he went to high school in Eastland County, taught at some high schools, then went to college at the University of Texas
One of the most annoying things about being a historian that every random person on the street thinks they know more than you do about it. It really does drive me nuts. Luckily, I am very, very good a
Leave it to historians to solve problems! It was still early on March 30 when historian Amy Kohout began scrolling through her Instagram feed. An image caught her eye: an ad by Nike promoting its new
This is the grave of Peggy Pascoe. One of the finest historians of the 1980s and 1990s, Pascoe was a pioneer in women’s history and legal history, particularly in the American West. In the 1980s
This is the grave of Michael Green and the future grave of Theda Perdue. Pioneering historians of Native America, both Green and Perdue have had impressive careers. Green finished his PhD from Iowa in
A journalist called up David Blight, one of the greatest living historians of the Civil War, and asked him what he thought of Trump’s Andrew Jackson comments. Blight clearly hadn’t heard o
Above: Free Angela Davis poster, Havana, 1971 I start each and every day by reading a couple of chapters of a history (or related) book. I do this primarily to keep up on the literature, making it pos