https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/historians/RSS feed for HistoriansenTue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifling-through-archives-legendary-historian-robert-caro-180985956/Reams of papers, revealing how the scholar came to write his iconic biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson, are preserved forever in New York. But his work is far from overTue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifling-through-archives-legendary-historian-robert-caro-180985956/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enduring-spirit-butler-island-georgia-plantation-180985631/Descendants of people enslaved at the site are grappling with its complicated history while also honoring the region's rich cultureThu, 02 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enduring-spirit-butler-island-georgia-plantation-180985631/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-lost-burial-site-of-enslaved-people-on-president-andrew-jacksons-tennessee-plantation-180985671/An estimated 28 probable graves were identified at the seventh American president's former property, called the HermitageTue, 17 Dec 2024 19:09:25 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-lost-burial-site-of-enslaved-people-on-president-andrew-jacksons-tennessee-plantation-180985671/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipwreck-found-in-lake-michigan-130-years-after-sinking-with-captains-intelligent-and-faithful-dog-onboard-180984766/The captain said he would "rather lose any sum of money than to have the brute perish as he did"Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:04:31 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipwreck-found-in-lake-michigan-130-years-after-sinking-with-captains-intelligent-and-faithful-dog-onboard-180984766/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-to-separate-fact-from-myth-in-the-extraordinary-story-of-sojourner-truth-180983820/Two historians tell us why the pioneering 19th-century feminist, suffragist and abolitionist’s legacy has so frequently been misrepresentedThu, 22 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-to-separate-fact-from-myth-in-the-extraordinary-story-of-sojourner-truth-180983820/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pennsylvania-mummy-gets-a-final-resting-place-after-128-years-in-funeral-home-180983042/Nicknamed "Stoneman Willie," the man visited the town of Reading for a convention of firefighters in 1895Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:09:34 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pennsylvania-mummy-gets-a-final-resting-place-after-128-years-in-funeral-home-180983042/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-discovery-puts-panama-site-first-successful-slave-rebellion-180981312/Deep in the archives, a historian rescues the tale of brave maroonsMon, 09 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-discovery-puts-panama-site-first-successful-slave-rebellion-180981312/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misunderstood-roman-empress-willed-way-to-top-180981294/A fresh view of Galla Placidia, who married a barbarian and ruled when the world power fell into chaosMon, 09 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misunderstood-roman-empress-willed-way-to-top-180981294/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-myth-american-frontier-got-start-180981310/Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis informed decades of scholarship and culture. Then he realized he was wrongFri, 06 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-myth-american-frontier-got-start-180981310/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-pioneering-historians-who-died-this-year-180981374/They believed that the stories of marginalized communities were worth chroniclingFri, 30 Dec 2022 16:14:53 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-pioneering-historians-who-died-this-year-180981374/