• When History Is Not Good Enough for Hollywood: Selma, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Martin Luther King Jr.

  Kent Germany | May 1, 2015

  Get it right; and don’t be boring.” That is the advice I give to students about writing history. I stole it from Pulitzer Prize–winning former New Yor...
• The Brouhaha over Selma

  Sam Pollard | May 1, 2015

  The 87th annual Academy Awards ceremony is over, and Selma, snubbed by many Academy members (myself included) in the best directing and best acting ca...
• Missed Opportunities with Selma

  Julian E. Zelizer | May 1, 2015

  There has been a lot written about what is wrong or right with the film Selma. Fans of the movie have praised the way it captures the bravery of civil...
• Varieties of Leadership in Selma

  Leslie M. Harris | May 1, 2015

  First, I must confess: I cried through the whole movie, from the first scene to the last. As a historian, that’s not what I came to do, but that’s wha...

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• History as Entertainment or Entertainment as History?

  Jonathan Scott Holloway | May 1, 2015

  When I learned that plans were afoot to make a feature film about the March from Selma to Montgomery...
• The Past Isn’t Even Past, Especially on Twitter

  Carol Anderson | May 1, 2015

  Social media was on fire regarding the film Selma and the Oscars. Anger seemed to focus on the “snub...
• Of Selma and History

  Adam Green | May 1, 2015

  Earlier this month, on the same day that President Obama, civil rights veterans, and dignitaries gat...
• Selma and the International History of American Civil Rights

  Mary L. Dudziak | May 1, 2015

  When peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally beaten in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, the world react...