HISTORICALLY SPEAKING is a bi-monthly publication featuring lively essays, interviews, and forums. Many prominent historians have appeared in our pages, including: Danielle Allen, Niall Ferguson, David Hackett Fischer, Ellen Fitzpatrick, Michael Kammen, John Lukacs, Pauline Maier, William McNeill, Joseph C. Miller, and Geoffrey Parker.  Forthcoming issues will feature essays by Robert Zieger, Anthony Read, Nicholas Guyatt, Stephen J. Stein, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and John Turner. Future forums will examine Michael Bess’s Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II; Adam Hochschild on “Do You Need a License to Practice History?” with H. W. Brands, Joseph Ellis, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, John Ferling, Thomas Fleming, John Lukacs, Joyce Malcolm, Louis Masur, Joyce Seltzer, John Wilson, and Jay Winik; and Theodore Rabb on Encountering of the New. Interviews with Daniel Walker Howe on 19th-Century America, Thomas Hine on American Culture in the 1970s, and Stephen Prothero on Religious Literacy are also coming soon. Subscribe to Historically Speaking Call for Submissions Instructions for Historically Speaking Authors

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Recent Articles and Interviews

Eric Arnesen, "Historians and the Public: Premature Obituaries, Abiding Laments," (November/December 2007)

Hasia R. Diner, "The World of Whiteness" (September/October 2007)

Randall Stephens' interview with Heather Cox Richardson on Reconstruction and the American West (September/October 2007)

Maureen Ogle, "The Perils of Going 'Popular'; Or My Life as a Loser" (March/April 2007)

Randall Stephens' interview with James Horn on the Jamestown Colony (March/April 2007)

Theodore K. Rabb, "Narrative, Periodization, and the Study of History" (March/April 2007)

Donald Yerxa's interview with Bryan Ward-Perkins about the fall of Rome (March/April 2006)

Donald Yerxa's interview with historian Tony Judt (January/February 2006) 

Michael Kort, "Racing the Enemy: A Critical Look" (January/February 2006)

Joseph S. Lucas and Donald A. Yerxa, Editors 
Randall J. Stephens, Associate Editor 

Contributing Editors: Joseph Amato, Andrew Bacevich, Lauren Benton, Jeremy Black, Thomas J. Fleming, Colin S. Gray, George Huppert, Mark Killenbeck, Bruce Kucklick, Pauline Maier, George Marsden, Bruce Mazlish, Wilfred McClay, Allan Megill, Joseph Miller, William R. Shea, Dennis Showalter, Barry Strauss, William Stueck, Jr., Carol Thomas, Derek Wilson, John Wilson, John Womack, Bertram Wyatt-Brown

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