Beyond Hagiography in the 2012 Hannah Arendt Film by Rebecca Brenner Recently, a group of historians launched the “Women Also Know History” website, offering a searchable database of women historians of all eras and topics in an effort to prevent all-male conference panels and to make clear the reality that women do indeed also know history.[1]  Among the reasons why all-men conference panels are problematic is that young women scholars deserve to see women role models. Political scientists created their own version, “Women Also Know Stuff.”[2]  But even before this feminist resurgence, the 2012 “Hannah Arendt” movie provided a model Read more