This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: US Department of Justice
January 11, 2018
Antonin DeHays, age 33, sold some of the tags on eBay.
Source: The Walrus
January 10, 2018
From Civil War uniforms to Viking smelts, meet the people who bring history to life.
Source: NYT
January 11, 2018
He was the subject of this week's NYT book interview.
Source: Reuters
January 9, 2018
Yuri Dmitriev, whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s crimes angered state officials is due to begin enforced psychiatric testing this week amid fears he will be falsely declared insane, his lawyer said.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 9, 2018
An interview with Jeremy C. Young, who’s been saying for years that she’d be a serious candidate for president.
Source: Inside Higher ED
January 9, 2018
And they’re upset about that.
Source: WKU Herald
1/9/18
Patti Minter, a history professor at Western Kentucky University, plans a run for the KY state legislature.
Source: People's World
January 8, 2018
Fifty years later is enough time for historians to step back and look at all those events and put them in perspective. Panels of them did so at the American Historical Association convention in Washington, D.C. What they found were lasting impacts, here and abroad.
Source: SF Gate
January 8, 2018
The scene unfolded during a Skype interview with Daniel Smith-Rowsey, a film historian and adjunct professor at St. Mary's College.
Source: Fareed Zakaria GPS
December 31, 2017
As for Putin – he's a modern czar complete with a Russian court of loyalists.
Source: Press Release
1/8/18
The group works to draw attention to examples of slavery in the modern era.
Source: Inside Higher ED
January 8, 2018
That means going out of their way to avoid implying that nonfaculty jobs are somehow “less than.”
1/7/18
Interviews with Mitchell Lerner and David P. Fields.
1/6/18
An interview with Luis Mancheno.
1/6/18
by Rick Shenkman
The survey will be used to determine how big a problem the profession has. It will be distributed shortly.
1/6/18
How big a problem is it for the profession?
1/6/18
An interview with Margaret Power.
1/6/18
A professional historians' critique of the documentary, "The Vietnam War."
Source: Inside Higher ED
January 5, 2018
Historians who teach U.S. conservatism say their jobs got a lot harder last year but that Trump's presidency also provides new opportunities for student engagement.
1/5/18
Two historians assess the presidency of the first person to reach the office without ever having served in a prior public position.
