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WEIRD Science
Brian Connolly, Hans Hummer, and Sara McDougall | May 6, 2020
An argument for including historians on interdisciplinary research teams. -
If You Charge Facts with Bias, Historians Are Guilty
John Broich | Apr 13, 2020
A historian reflects on the political backlash he faced after an op-ed was picked up by the right-wing media. -
History by Text and Thing
ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball | Feb 26, 2020
Are we doing research wrong? ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball wonders if we should ask so much from our students and ourselves before we get into the archives. -
The Job of the Academic Market
Rebecca S. Wingo | Jan 14, 2020
How much time does the academic job market take for the applicant? One historian adds up the hours. -
Are All Graduate Student Conferences Created Equal?
Paul Braff | May 6, 2019
They can be great tools for professionalization, but organizers should play to their own strengths. -
Not So Evident
Katherine Benton-Cohen | Mar 25, 2019
How social science experts helped create the idea that immigration was a problem for the federal government to fix. -
See No Evil
Ann McGrath | Mar 4, 2019
An Australian archive removed “Aboriginal” from its records to avoid offense. What are we to make of this erasure? -
Writing the History of Sexual Assault in the Age of #MeToo
Amy Stanley | Sep 24, 2018
What would happen if we just believed the women in our sources? -
Why I Am a Historian
Lillian Guerra | Jul 2, 2018
Confronting ignorance and racism pushed me into my career. -
Reframing Indigeneity
Sargon George Donabed and Daniel Joseph Tower | Jan 1, 2018
Media coverage of ISIS's destruction in Northern Iraq focused on Arabs and Kurds. But one group was mostly ignored. Why?
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