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Richard Bluttal is a former Manager of School Programs at the New-York Historical Society, History Consultant for Brooklyn, NY school Districts 15 and 21, and Social Studies consultant for over 185 schools in NYC area. In the first posed photograph of…
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a retired professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He taught courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies for over 20 years. The following is the second installment in…
by Walter G. Moss Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University, a Contributing Editor of HNN, and author of A History of Russia. 2 vols. For a list of his recent books and online publications click here.…
Eric Porter is Professor of History, History of Consciousness, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and affiliated faculty of Music and Latin American and Latino/a Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. His latest book is A People’s History of SFO: The…
Elizabeth Stice is Associate Professor of History at Palm Beach Atlantic University. From “Scholars at a Lecture,” William Hogarth 1736 The tightening academic job market is of great concern for professional historians. It is very important that younger…
The 32nd first lady wielded an influential—and disruptive—voice on behalf of equality, civil rights and social justice. Eleanor Roosevelt’s tireless advocacy for social and economic justice made her one of the most admired women of the 20th century. In her…
A priestess named Enheduanna wrote poetry and other texts—sometimes in first-person—more than a millennium before Homer. Over five thousand years ago, people living in a part of Mesopotamia called Sumer started to keep records with cuneiform, the oldest known system…
Between 1956 and 1958, Gibson became the first Black player to win the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals. But none of it came easy. When Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon Championships on July 6, 1957, and became the…
by Allison Robinson and Ksenia M. Soboleva Allison Robinson is a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellow in women’s history and public history with the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a Mellon Foundation gender…
Kathryn Smith is author of The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR and the Untold Story of the Partnership that Defined a Presidency. Anna Marie Rosenberg, photographed while touring Korea as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Truman administration …
