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Thomas Bender: The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual Since World War II (Video)

by Thomas Bender

Specialization is the rule of the day, but it's changed historians' capacity to reach a larger public. 

Public Debate Is Challenging for Historians but Worth the Effort (Video)

by Ellen F. Fitzpatrick

Historians like nuance.  The media want fast answers that are simple.  

How Public Historians Have Tried to Set the Record Straight in India About Muslims Destroying Hindu Temples (Video)

by Partha Chatterjee

In India Hindu right-wingers have demonized Muslim leaders who ruled for 7 centuries. Historians have tried to put their rule in context. 

What Historians Have to Do to Survive (Video Interview)

by Jack Censer

The number of history majors is falling.  There's a crisis.  We need to pay attention. 

How the Nation Covered Latin America (Video)

by Greg Grandin

The Nation was far ahead of the mainstream media in recognizing new trends.

How The Nation Magazine Covered India (Or Didn't) in the Postwar Period

by Juan Cole

Often The Nation ignored what was happening in India.  When the magazine took notice, it usually backed Nehru as the moderate between communists on the left and Hindu conservatives on the right. 

The New York Times Is Guilty of Journalistic Malpractice (Video)

by Stephen F. Cohen

Professor Cohen, derided by the Daily Beast as Putin's lapdog, blasts the New York Times and the Washington Post for their coverage of the Ukraine crisis. 

Freda Kirchwey, the Crusading Editor of The Nation (Video)

by Sara Alpern

Remarks of Sara Alpern at the annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2, 2015.

My Life at The Nation -- How I Became the Best Paid Poet in America (Video)

by Calvin Trillin

Classic Trillin, riffing on Mitt Romney and others in a celebration of The Nation magazine. 

The Nation Magazine: 150 Years of Critical Engagement with the World (Video)

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel

She spoke at the panel, "The Nation in the World: 150 Years of Critical Engagement," at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

How All Sides in the Ukraine Crisis Are Misusing History (Video Interview)

by Kate Brown

Both Russians and Ukranians have been whitewashing the past to manipulate the future.

The Torture Debate Is Missing This: The Fact that We Did this Before

by Paul Kramer

We should be haunted by the history of the war we fought using torture in the Philippines more than a century ago.

Are We More Like the Roman Empire than We Care to Admit?

by David M. Carr

That’s a good question to ask ourselves at the start of a new year. History doesn’t provide a comforting answer.

The Bright Idea They Had in 1953 that Changed the World

by William Lambers

It helped feed the world. 

The Surprising Legacy of the Black Panther Party in Chicago

by Aaron Leonard

An interview with historian Jakobi Williams

What I’m Reading Now: Jim Grossman (Interview)

by Tiffany April Griffin

"We need to save libraries; we don't need to 'save history.’ ‘History' exists whether we like it or not."

It Wasn’t Just Japanese Americans Who Fell Under Suspicion in World War II. So Did Italian Americans.

by John N. Romano

The shocking story of Italian families in Yonkers.

How Napoleon Nearly Became a U.S. Citizen

by Munro Price

One of the greatest “What Ifs” of history is what if he had?

Dylan Thomas: Artist or Roustabout?

by Mary Lynne Evans

It’s the 100th anniversary of his birth. Wales is celebrating. But what are we celebrating?

The Battle between Journalism and Fiction: Doug Underwood on Genre Bending Journalists and Literary History (Interview)

by Robin Lindley

Prof. Underwood stresses the "competition" between "new" or "literary" journalists and contemporary novelists for the hearts of the lovers of realistic literature.