DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

History in the News

2020-21

• Kate Masur's March 2021 book, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, garnered NYT and WSJ reviews—https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/books/review-until-justice-be-done-kate-masur.html and https://www.wsj.com/articles/until-justice-be-done-review-free-but-not-free-11616359082

• Dyan ELLIOTT published a new book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy (2020), reviewed in the National Catholic Reporter as "nothing short of remarkable, stunning and most importantly, authentic."  New book examines clergy sexual abuse — in the wide lens of history | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)
• Geraldo CADAVA has an Oct. 14 op-ed article (his third this year) in the New York Times: "Stop Othering Latinos"  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/opinion/latinos-2020-election.html
•  Kate MASUR's role in organizing days of action at Civil War monuments is highlighted in a Sept. 28 New York Times article  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/arts/civil-war-monuments.html and in Perspectives https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october-2020/wewantmorehistory-a-national-day-of-action
• Brett GADSDEN was a key source for Evan Osnos' profile of Joe Biden in the New Yorker:  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/can-Biden-center-hold
• Joel MOKYR features in the Economist's assessment of debates about culture in economics:  https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/09/03/economists-are-turning-to-culture-to-explain-wealth-and-poverty
• Leslie HARRIS has a trenchant, timely piece in Politico—https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/20/trump-1619-project-education-patriotic-american-history-1776-418539
• Amy STANLEY and and Susan PEARSON are in the NYT discussing their efforts to improve Northwestern's policies/support for caregivers—https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/business/economy/pandemic-women-tenure.html. Their letter to the administration has served as a model for faculty organizing across the U.S.
• Joel MOKYR's research featured in the Economist: https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/09/03/economists-are-turning-to-culture-to-explain-wealth-and-poverty;
• Lina BRITTO interviews Kathleen Belew (U of Chicago) about white supremacy in El Spectador (Sept. 19):  https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/el-mundo/muchas-de-las-tacticas-de-contrainsurgencia-de-la-supremacia-blanca-comparten-una-historia-con-colombia/
• Brett GADSDEN writes in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/can-Biden-center-hold
• Geraldo CADAVA's op-ed in the New York Times—his second this year—https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/opinion/will-this-be-the-year-arizona-turns-blue.html?searchResultPosition=1
• Ipek YOSMAOGLU's piece about the re-designation of the Aghia Sophia as a mosque was published on Platform:  https://www.platformspace.net/home/aghia-sophia-and-a-reckoning-with-history
• Lauren STOKES had a  piece about refugees, the history of racial profiling and the two Germanies published in Die Zeit 
• Geraldo CADAVA, “Will Latinos Buy Into ‘Tío Bernie’s’ Socialism? ”New York Times, 20 February 2020