"If the historian—the very person supposed to process the past on behalf of everyone else—struggles with trauma, then it is little surprise that societies as a whole struggle to face the violence of how they were formed and how they prevailed."
"Equating a mode of inquiry with a heinous crime should induce not only a private shudder but a public disavowal. No reasonable definition of patriotism can accommodate this despicable metaphor."
Source: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks is a new program that features the most exciting history scholars in America discussing their books with host William Roka live, followed by a Q&A with home audiences.
How unprecedented is this situation, really? Business and military historian Mark Wilson, economist Mark Harrison, and political scientist Rosella Cappella Zielinski discuss.
“Historical institutions commit to opening their doors and taking in documents and records that might help preserve the community’s memory for future generations.”, says historian Christopher D. Cantwell.
Source: The Gotham Center for New York City History
Erickson is the co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, a new book from the Harlem Education History Project.
Annette Joseph-Gabriel hopes public conversations about the United States’ foundations will continue and will be undergirded by intellectual honesty and rigor.
Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on The Ezra Klein Show. But in this episode of the show, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions. Hard ones.
