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: The Nation
May 21, 2019
The political odyssey of Sean Wilentz.
Source: USA Today
May 21, 2019
"I get to get people excited about the past, I get to tell stories of resiliency of optimism, I get to actually do the thing I love most – talk about American history."
Source: Daily Mail
May 21, 2019
This sketch of the Seated Man is said to be the earliest-known Michelangelo, created when he was aged around 12.
Source: H-Net
May 20, 2019
by Peter Mauch
Sadao Asada, Professor Emeritus of Doshisha University, died in Kyoto on February 4, 2019. He was 83 years old.
Source: Slate
May 20, 2019
Teachers with no sense of perspective tried to make history personal and ended up reinforcing white supremacy in the name of “learning.”
Source: Fast Company
May 20, 2019
Buried in 1999, the capsule contained the 1992 proposal for the World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee–and Microsoft’s first product.
Source: Daily Mail
May 19, 2019
How did double agent Oleg Gordievsky stop Russia launching a nuclear strike on the West?
Source: AP
May 19, 2019
A trove of historical records tells us Fort Monroe in Hampton was built on the backs of thousands of African slaves. But little was known about their identities or who they were — until now.
Source: Black Perspectives
May 16, 2019
by Ralph Callebert
There is thus an extensive literature on dockworkers and their activism. Peter Cole’s Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area fits in this tradition.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 15, 2019
Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.
Source: AP
May 15, 2019
With his latest book, “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” McCullough is seeing some of the sharpest criticism of his career.
Source: Wall Street Journal
May 14, 2019
Featuring Philip Balson, Olivia Daniels, Ethan Ehrenhaft, Max Minshull, and Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne.
Source: Slate
May 14, 2019
The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.
Source: Wall Street Journal
May 14, 2019
Richmond’s Monument Avenue is lined with Confederate statues, but an exhibition filled with proposals to replace them struggles to find a road forward.
Source: The Atlantic
May 14, 2019
An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
Source: Space.com
May 14, 2019
An interview with Roger Launius.
Source: AP
May 12, 2019
The Alabama Historical Association has elected Wetumpka native Franzine Taylor as president for the upcoming year.
Source: NY Times
May 8, 2019
Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject.
Source: Washington Post
May 6, 2019
John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian and iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a best-selling tribute to Winston Churchill and produced a substantial and often despairing body of writings on the politics and culture of Europe and the United States.
Source: College Fix
May 6, 2019
Hoffer had called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “hate group,” and claimed that Black Lives Matter and radical Muslim terrorists are a bigger threat than the KKK and Neo-Nazis.
