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History in Focus

History in Focus

By: American Historical Review
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 Go behind the scenes with the world's leading history journal as we explore the who, what, how, and why of doing history in the twenty-first century. World
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  • 4.4 Black Reconstruction [Revisited]

    4.4 Black Reconstruction [Revisited]
    Dec 3 2025

    Historian Elizabeth Hinton explores W.E.B. Du Bois's 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction. We also hear from Eric Foner, Chad Williams, Sue Mobley, and Kendra Field. The AHR chose not to review Black Reconstruction when it was first published. A review by Hinton appears in the December 2022 issue.
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    46 mins
  • 4.3 Mistakes I Have Made

    4.3 Mistakes I Have Made
    Nov 5 2025

    What if historians could own up to their mistakes? Or learn to see their mistakes not as weaknesses to be hidden but as a necessary part of the process of growth and discovery? That is what a recent special edition of the History Unclassified section of the journal explores. That edition, "Mistakes I Have Made," includes reflections from nine contributors as well as from section editors Kate Brown and Emily Callaci. We speak, in turn, with all of them in this episode.
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    49 mins
  • 4.2 Soil and Memory [Revisited]

    4.2 Soil and Memory [Revisited]
    Oct 1 2025

    Historian Alexis Dudden and graphic artist Kim Inthavong discuss their collaborative work on history, memory, and activism in Okinawa, Japan. Their piece, "Okinawa: Territory as Monument," appeared in the History Lab section of the September 2022 issue of the AHR. Inthavong's graphic panels illustrating Okinawans' present-day struggle over US military presence in the islands can be previewed below.
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    33 mins
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