Mischa Honeck

Trump Against History How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.

If the argument is that Trump is single-handedly changing American history, what does that tell us other than that the American people’s historical literacy is so poor that they are easily led astray? I’m afraid this “diagnosis” is rather self-defeating.

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So glad to be included in this pathbreaking volume: the first ever German-language handbook on the history of childhood, which covers a broad range of topics (education, migration, war, colonialism, dis/ability, law, emotions, to name a few). Coming your way in October!

Meinungsdoofheit.

Wer schreibt, dass Europa „unsere“ Zukunft verspielt, will, dass wir vergessen, das Europa unsere Zukunft ist und bleibt.

Best answer to the question of why America is so divided today is to remind folks that it was born this way.

No Country for Old Age: America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley By Mischa Honeck The 2024 election cycle revived a longstanding American concern with old age. I don’t mean a concern with actually existing older people and their need for

Hat tip to James Chappel, who wrote this thoughtful and precise review of my book on the long history of anti-aging in America. A "brisk book" and an "important entry in the growing field of age studies." Published in the Journal of Social History, July 2025.
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Are there still people out there who believe that MAGA is an isolationist, anti-imperialist force? Just checking.

"Die Figur von Hulk Hogan verkörperte eine hypermaskuline Seelengeografie jenes Teils der USA, den man aus den Abgründen des Unterhaltungsfernsehens kannte." (D. Hugendick)

Einfach ein geiler Satz.

Another kind review of No Country for Old Age! Hyung Wook Park calls it a "groundbreaking study on the discourse and culture of aging and youth in the United States" and finds it "highly convincing" as a sweeping cultural history.
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Call me ageist but I don´t think Democrats should take rejuvenation advice from James Carville.

Musk, an angry immigrant, launches the “America Party”, a bad remake of the viciously nativist “American Party”, which flourished briefly before imploding in the 1850s.

A delicious irony historians will appreciate.

And still we carry on, boats against the current.

Glad to share Heike Stoff’s critical but respectful review (in German) of my new book, which he calls “a treasure trove for a political, social, and cultural history of the United States.”

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No Country for Old Age: America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley Amazon.com: No Country for Old Age: America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley (Audible Audio Edition): Mischa Honeck, Al Kessel, Tantor Media: Books

Out now, the audiobook version:

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This ain’t rewriting. It’s naked falsification.

Let them call you liberal. Wear it as a badge of honor.

Neither can I.

Perhaps it was this painful contradiction, the gaping chasm separating rhetoric and reality, that helped propel the current president to power. No more territory? That sentiment is definitely alien to him. /2

Remember the 2000s when Donald Rumsfeld and Barack Obama both went on the record saying the US is not an empire, and that it does not want more territory? A strange bipartisan consensus, punctuated by the gruesomeness of the War On Terror. /1

Just curious: how many people who have decried US-history experts like @ardenthistorian.bsky.social as alarmist or hysterical found the courage to apologize?

Only six more weeks until No Country for Old Age will be available for instant download! Tantor Media will release the audiobook version on April 29, narrated by Al Kessel (whose voice does sound a little like Sam Elliott's). And check out the elephant.
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Rejections are a part of academic life, but getting your piece rejected by a publisher after they invited you to submit that exact piece is plain weird.

When Americans are confused about what their nation stands for today, JD already gave the answer: it’s lending support to Neo-Nazis in Europe.

This, exactly, is history’s Achilles’ heel - dilettantes making big claims about it with a certitude any serious scholar will find obnoxious.

I see people scrambling for Wikipedia after you wrote 1756.

Normality may well be the biggest lie of all.

In a weirdly disturbing way radical MAGA is talking more openly about annexing Canada than Hitler aired his plans regarding Austria before 1938.

„Verschlankung“

Were John McCain alive today, he would muster his last breath to kick Lindsey Graham in the nuts.