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: CNN
Apr 13, 2019
Theater historian Geoffrey Marsh spent a decade meticulously researching the home of the English dramatist and poet by cross-referencing official records to pinpoint where exactly Shakespeare lived during the 1590s.
Source: Esquire
Apr 13, 2019
Featuring Tiya Miles, Kevin Kruse, and Heather Cox Richardson.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 11, 2019
The Math in Focus workbook said in a math problem that Columbus landed in America in 1492. The students at Valleyview Elementary School in Oneonta knew that wasn’t true — and they wanted the publisher to fix the error.
Source: Time
Apr 11, 2019
I think after Emily became a successful writer after her death, people were worried that if the public found out she loved women, the public who adored the old-maid-recluse story would stop reading her poetry.
Source: inside Higher Ed
Apr 9, 2019
Reichman argues, the “time for engagement is now."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Apr 8, 2019
The Historical Society cited operating deficits and a lack of financial stability as the reason for the layoffs.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 8, 2019
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
Source: Black Perspectives
Apr 8, 2019
by Marius Kothor
Why are African scholars conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies?
Source: Quartz
Apr 7, 2019
Scientific historians are coming to terms with the fact that science thrived in part because of the transatlantic slave trade of the 1500s to 1800s.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 5, 2019
by Howell Raines
An illuminating ook review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.”
Source: Washington Post
Apr 4, 2019
The contribution of an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark.
Source: Air & Space Magazine
Apr 2, 2019
by Marc Wortman
The First Airplane to Cross an Ocean
Source: Pacific Standard
Apr 1, 2019
Ken Woodley recounts the shameful history of resistance to civil rights in Prince Edward County, Virginia—and how, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the county finally began to make amends.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 1, 2019
Their move is casting doubt on a big faculty-diversity initiative.
Source: The Brown Daily Herald
Apr 1, 2019
The Department may revive program in future with extra year, stronger thematic focus.
Source: NY Times
Mar 29, 2019
From an 80-year-old tiger trainer to the motorcycle queen of Miami, these are the stories of trailblazing women you likely didn’t learn about in school.
Source: NY Times
Mar 29, 2019
From Betty Friedan to Sonia Pressman, Bella Abzug and Gerda Lerner, Jewish women had an outsize role in the feminist struggle.
Source: Pacific Standard
Mar 27, 2019
When universities short change grad students, undergrads suffer too.
Source: Wate.com
Mar 27, 2019
The bill states that people of the Appalachian Mountains are misunderstood and their dialect is often seen as uneducated. If the bill passed, it would legitimize the Appalachian dialect.
Source: Colorado College
Mar 26, 2019
His life not only touched those who are associated with Colorado College, but his presence in the world had been one that was remarkable and inspirational.
