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: USA Today
Aug 6, 2019
If your summertime activity includes slapping away noisy insects while enjoying a fat beach book, you might relate to Timothy C. Winegard’s entertainingly educational new opus, "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.”
Source: The Politic
Aug 5, 2019
Dr. Krinitsky is currently working on a book, “The Politics of Crime Control: Race, Policing, and Reform in Twentieth-Century Chicago,” while working on research projects at the University of Michigan.
Source: Phys.org
Aug 5, 2019
Archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to Jemez this summer to help members of the tribe excavate the site of two mission churches.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Aug 4, 2019
Among the men who signed a king’s death warrant were two who, in the American colonies, met with admiration and ambivalence.
Source: Morning Call
Aug 4, 2019
The free, eight-session evening program aims to strengthen immigrants' understanding of the nation's revolution and evolution.
Source: NPR
Aug 4, 2019
Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to author Timothy C. Winegard about his new book about the mosquito.
Source: The New Yorker
Aug 2, 2019
Tim Naftali was the first director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba Linda, California.
Source: Irish Central
Aug 2, 2019
Sophie Hingst, a German blogger and historian who had studied at Trinity College Dublin, was found dead in her Dublin apartment on July 17.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Aug 1, 2019
A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places
Source: Nursing Clio
Jul 29, 2019
by Averill Earls
This is a book that claims to be a work of history. This book absolutely needed the peer review of historians knowledgeable in this content area.
Source: A Correction: A Podcast
Jul 26, 2019
The hosts speak with David Carlin about why we need to reexamine the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles on its 100th anniversary.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 25, 2019
by Marjoleine Kars
Eager to uncover the real Mary, Martha Saxton, an emerita historian at Amherst College who has written biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jayne Mansfield, set out to paint a more true-to-life portrait.
Source: UPI
Jul 24, 2019
New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 24, 2019
Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.
Source: UVA Today
Jul 22, 2019
He came to UVA in 1991, and became the second director of the Woodson Institute, especially supporting the study of local African American history using early digital technology.
Source: Duke Today
Jul 22, 2019
While at Duke, he served as chair of the history department and as director of the Canadian Studies program. He was known for his love of Canada, baseball and jazz, and for his devotion to his students.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jul 22, 2019
When a misleading op-ed in The Wall Street Journal irks academics, it's time for a fact check on faculty work and pay.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 21, 2019
What does history’s magic 8-ball say about how we wound up with Donald Trump? Two historians try to supply the context.
Source: Tom Dispatch
Jul 18, 2019
by Tom Engelhardt
"As I turn 75, there’s no simpler way to put it than this: I’m an old man on a new planet -- and, in case it isn’t instantly obvious, that’s not good news on either score."
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 18, 2019
by Drew Gilpin Faust
She looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
