​Jason Steinhauer |Public Historian

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• "A Chinese Cultural Treasure in US is (Mostly) Saved From Fire" [CNN]

• "America's Divides Have Never Been Simple" [The Philadelphia Inquirer]

• "Electability Has a Vital Role in Presidential Primaries" [The Washington Post]

• "Historians Don't Live in an Ivory Tower" [CNN]

• "Fewer Students Are Majoring in History, But We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About Why" [TIME]

• "Networks Let Us Down When They Don’t Put Historians on TV" [Poynter]

• "The Twitter Problem That Could Change History" [CNN]

• "History Is Hot: Can That Help Save the Profession?" [Inside Higher Ed]

• "America’s Students Need History—But Not for the Reasons You’re Hearing" [TIME]

Op-eds

Essays

• "James H. Billington: An Appreciation" [Foreign Policy Research Institute]

• "The Story She Never Told" [Medium]

• "History is Not There to be Liked" [Foreign Policy Research Institute]

• "Of Fake News and Fake History" [Foreign Policy Research Institute]

Blog posts

• "How I’m launching a cryptocurrency to support public history" [Medium]

• "Earthrise" [Substack]

• "Lonn Taylor, 'The Rambling Boy'" [Substack]

• "The Passover Seder held deep in Nazi Germany" [Substack]

• "Is Clubhouse the Future of Public History?" [Medium]

• "My hope for the Biden-Harris administration" [Substack]

• "Why 'The Last Dance' is the Presidential Historian of Documentaries" [HNN]

• "Teaching History Communication: Early Results" [History @ Work]

• "Celebrating Black History Month In Different Ways" [Bold]

• "Can an Oral History be 'Fake News'?" [Hindsights]

• "The Case for Historical Literacy" [Hindsights]

• "Building an Interdisciplinary Discipline" [History @ Work]

• "Discovering Walt Whitman at the Library of Congress" [Library of Congress]

• "History Communicators: The Next Step" [History @ Work]

• "Tony Blair at the Library of Congress" [Library of Congress]

• "Scholarly Explorations of War" [Library of Congress]

• "Philosophers Habermas and Taylor to Share $1.5 Million Kluge Prize" [Library of Congress]

• "Images of the Earth in American Children’s Books" [Library of Congress]

• "Madeleine Albright Returns to the Library of Congress–Where She Wrote Her Dissertation" [Library of Congress]

• "#ScholarFest a Success; The Lightning Conversation is Born" [Library of Congress]

• "Photos from #ScholarFest" [Library of Congress]

• "Learning What’s on the Minds of Some of Today’s Top Scholars" [Library of Congress]

• "Introducing #ScholarFest, June 10-11 at the Library of Congress" [American Historical Association]

• "How About Some Optimism? Changing the Conversation Around Career Prospects for Future Historians" [American Historical Association]

• "Who Writes History? Romila Thapar and the Textbooks of India" [Library of Congress]

• "Astrobiology and the Religious Imagination" [Library of Congress]

• "William Julius Wilson Arrives at the Kluge Center" [Library of Congress]

• "Introducing History Communicators" [History @ Work]

• "Kinship and Scholarship: A Librarian and Scholar Find Books and Each Other" [Library of Congress]

• "Václav Havel: Speeches" [Library of Congress]

• "Real Realpolitik" [Library of Congress]

• "Why Astrobiology Matters to the Humanities" [Library of Congress]

• "Historians and Public Culture: Widening the Circle of Advocacy" [American Historical Association]

• "Re-thinking the Role of the Regional Oral History Organization" [Oxford University Press]

• "@HistoryinPics brings history to the public. So what's the problem? (Part 2)" [History @ Work]

• "@HistoryinPics brings history to the public. So what's the problem? (Part 1)" [History @ Work]

• "Inquiring Minds: David Grinspoon Reflects on His Tenure at Library of Congress" [Library of Congress]

• "Missing the History from the Historic March on Washington Commemoration" [History @ Work]

• "On Inauguration Day, History was Everywhere" [History @ Work]

• "Inquiring Minds: A Visionary Center" [Library of Congress]

Interviews

• "How a Scholar Uses Her Ph.D. to Combat Corruption Around the World" [Library of Congress]

• "The Kazakh Famine of the 1930s" [Library of Congress]

• "The Legacy of a Lost WWII Bomber Crew" [TIME]

• "How Jewish Refugees Ended Up in Camps in Cyprus After World War II" [TIME]

• "The Transformation of African-American Life in 19th Century Washington" [TIME]

• "The Origins and Legacy of the Idea of the 'Third World'" [TIME]

• "How Future Historians Might Use Your Tweets" [TIME]

• "What the U.S. Can Learn From a Century of War" [TIME]

• "How Native Americans Shaped Washington, D.C." [TIME]

• "How Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Has Evolved" [TIME]

• "How Today's Ebola Response Reflects the History of Colonialism in Africa" [TIME]

• "The Politics of Catastrophe: A History of American War Politics" [Library of Congress]

• "Expanding the Astrobiology Conversation" [Library of Congress]

• "A Historical Perspective on the Cuba-U.S. Relationship" [Library of Congress]

• "How the Discovery of Life Will Transform Our Thinking" [Library of Congress]

• "Astrobiology Chair Steven Dick Discusses Research, Tenure at the Library" [Library of Congress]

• "Kluge Center Spotlight: Arun Sood on Robert Burns" [Library of Congress]

• "Kluge Center Spotlight: Francesca Bratton on Hart Crane" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: A Study of Mental Health" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: Studying Decolonization" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: An Interview with Marie Arana" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: An Interview with Kluge Fellow Lindsay Tuggle" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: An Interview with British Research Council Fellow Maria Shmygol" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: Scholar Manuel Castells on Social Movements" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: An Interview with Astrobiologist David H. Grinspoon" [Library of Congress]

• "Inquiring Minds: An Interview with John Witte" [Library of Congress]

Book chapters

• "The Iconography of the Towers," Recovering 9/11 in New York, editors Robert Fanuzzi, Michael Wolfe [Cambridge Scholars Publishing]

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