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Dozens of oral histories from the Clinton presidency just went live

A movie’s coming about Selma

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How Two Historians Responded to Racism in Mississippi by James W Loewen The story of two historians in Mississippi. One wrote a textbook passing along the racist myths of Reconstruction. The other wrote a textbook challenging them.

The Tough Guy Screen Detectives of the 1930s and 1940s Are Back by Bruce Chadwick There is trouble in the world today? Serial killers? Arsonists? The thugs of ISIS? Don’t bother with the CIA, FBI, Interpol or the NYPD. Get Sam Spade!

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Dozens of oral histories from the Clinton presidency just went live There’s plenty of fodder for Hillary to worry about.

Zigzag Etched On Ancient Shell May Be World's Oldest Art The geometrical engraving is believed to date back 430,000 to 540,000 years.

House OKs Measure Stopping Social Security Payments To Former Nazis The vote was unanimous.

Is It Better to Lose the White House? The surest price the winning party will pay is defeat of hundreds of their most promising candidates and officeholders for Senate, House, governorships, and state legislative posts.

Museum Announces $25 Million Gift to Name the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education Largest Single Gift Will Ensure the Museum’s Vital Educational Missio

Are the Irish about to whitewash the anniversary of the Easter Uprising? "The Government's promotional video for 'Ireland 2016', the centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising, provides a fairly obvious clue to what is wrong with it. There is only the briefest mention of 1916 and none of 'The Rising' or freedom."

A movie’s coming about Selma The director’s drawing media attention. She’s black and a woman — rare in Hollywood.

Rewriting the War, Japanese Right Attacks a Newspaper Takashi Uemura, a former journalist, is under attack for his reporting on “comfort women.”

Readex Enlarges Early American Newspapers with Series 11, 1803-1899 Featuring essential historical newspapers collected by the American Antiquarian Society, Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899 will be launched in December 2014 by Readex, a division of NewsBank.

Richard III's DNA throws up infidelity surprise Analysis of DNA from Richard III has thrown up a surprise: evidence of infidelity in his family tree.

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Martin Kramer says boycott fever has seized the Middle East Studies Association “In the past, whenever the boycott demand percolated in the ranks, cooler heads prevailed. The problem is that the cooler heads are growing grey and losing authority."

Historian asks: Do PhD's in American history really need to know a foreign language? Historian John McMillian says we need to do something to shorten the time it takes to get a PhD. Maybe we should drop the foreign language requirement for Americanists.

David M. Kennedy says his father hid the truth about the reason for not serving in WW I “He would say things like, ‘What are you going to say when your kid asks, Daddy, where were you during the Great War?’ ”

Ned Blackhawk recalls the grim details of the Sand Creek Massacre The massacre of Native Americans was so horrific that it prompted two Congressional investigations; forced the resignation of two leaders—Colonel John M. Chivington and the governor of Colorado Territory, John Evans—and launched years of battle with the Plains Indians following the Civil War.

The AP US History Wars: Is a Peace Process Possible? The History Wars are back. At issue is the new framework for the Advanced Placement US history program.

Nebraska professor rediscovers lost Walt Whitman poem Combing through the Library of Congress’s collection of penny newspapers, Wendy Katz stumbled across a famous set of initials. W.W. Yes, that W.W.

For years marginalized, gay history is now front and center (in Indiana!) "There's a realization that there's a whole culture here, and it's significant and interesting."

Jason Sokol is praised for his revealing portraits of blacks--and the shell game liberals and conservatives both play "In All Eyes Are Upon Us, he shows Northeastern whites, like their Southern counterparts, proclaiming interracial comity by offering enough moral cover to the shell game to make it seem fair."

David Barton's ongoing refusal to admit his mistakes, even after being confronted by Christian historians "The awareness of Barton’s systematic distortion of the nation’s founding is well known at the highest levels of the Christian political right."

Historian spots long-lost painting while watching 'Stuart Little' The discovery was made by Gergely Barki, a researcher at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.

New-York Historical Society to Open Center for Women’s History “The new Center for Women’s History will become a destination for discovery of the crucial role that New York women played in our nation’s social, political and cultural evolution as women struggled for and eventually won the right to vote.”