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The World's Train Station: Grand Central
Grand Central Terminal at night. Credit: Wiki Commons.Bio: 2-1-13Kris Wood is an HNN intern and a student at New York University.read more
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The Iraq War: Learning Lessons, Ignoring History
Front page of March 20, 2013 edition of the New York Times.Talk about a gap between serious academic history and the policy community. The New York Times, which has made a big deal of the tenth...
View ArticleKenneth F. Scheve Jr. and David Stasavage: Is the Estate Tax Doomed?
Kenneth F. Scheve Jr. is a professor of political science at Stanford University. David Stasavage, a professor of politics at New York University, is the author of “States of Credit: Size, Power, and...
View ArticleDavid Moss: there’s a reason for deposit insurance
...If the nation has a father of bank insurance, it is Joshua Forman, one of the promoters of the Erie Canal. Early in the 19th century, New York State had a string of bank failures, and Martin Van...
View ArticleLinking past and present in Nuremberg
“This will be easy to see,” said Annelise, our guide, flipping off the lights in the chilly sandstone beer cellar that had been converted to an air-raid shelter during World War II. A small plaque on...
View ArticleBehind image of seamless transition, Vatican navigates uncharted waters
VATICAN CITY — Sharing lunch is rarely historic, except perhaps when the two people eating are a pope and his predecessor.On Saturday, the pope emeritus, Benedict XVI— who broke church tradition by...
View ArticleRoss Douthat: The Obama Era, Brought to You by the Iraq War
Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times.WHEN prominent people in Washington spend an anniversary apologizing for being catastrophically, unforgivably wrong about a decade-old decision, you...
View ArticleRebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel
Rebecca Skloot is the author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”LAST week, scientists sequenced the genome of cells taken without consent from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She was a black...
View ArticleCalling All Family Historians: Ideas for New York Times Column?
Author: Stephanie Coontz The New York Times has asked me to be a guest columnist in May and June while one of their regulars is on vacation. This is a bit more intimidating than when I actually have...
View ArticleHenry Hope Reed, historian, is dead at 97
Henry Hope Reed, an architecture critic and historian whose ardent opposition to modernism was purveyed in books, walking tours of New York City and a host of curmudgeonly barbs directed at advocates...
View ArticleThanks for the Feedback!
Author: Stephanie Coontz Thanks to the many people who sent me ideas for historical material to discuss on my NYT columns. There were many I couldn't use, but in two cases, I was able to suggest how...
View ArticleBeware Social Nostalgia
Author: Stephanie Coontz My latest column in the New York Times:AS a historian, I’ve spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia. But as a mother, watching my son graduate...
View ArticleRoger Berkowitz: Misreading ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’
Roger Berkowitz is associate professor of political studies and human rights, and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, at Bard College.The movie “Hannah...
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The Left's Blind Spot
Let's start with Howard Zinn and then move on.Zinn, rather unlikely for a historian, has been feted like a Hollywood celebrity, receiving encomiums from stars like Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, and...
View ArticleMore coverage for Ben Urwand's Hollywood & Hitler book
Ben Urwand has apparently done what no historian has previously been able to do: Draw not just one but many substantial links between 1930s Hollywood and the Nazi Germany regime of Adolf...
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