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: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 29, 2019
Field's faculty jobs outlook was constant last year after years of disappearing positions.
Source: UCONN Magazine
Jan 29, 2019
History professor Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.
Source: Perspectives on History
Jan 28, 2019
A Closer Look at Faculty Hiring
Source: Background Briefing
Jan 27, 2019
The best-selling author and senior political advisor was interviewed on a recent podcast.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 25, 2019
Can impeachment appear legitimate in a hyper-partisan universe?
Source: Princeton
Jan 24, 2019
Theodore Rabb, professor of history, emeritus, founder of Princeton’s “Humanities Sequence” and an innovative teacher of generations of students, died Jan. 7 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. He was 81.
Source: Salon
Jan 24, 2019
Historians tell Salon that Trump's State of the Union implosion is completely "without precedent."
Source: Public Discourse
Jan 24, 2019
You do not need a license to practice history. Instead, all you need to do is work hard, do research, go to the sources, make the past meaningful, and write in a way that attracts readers.
Source: NBC News
Jan 23, 2019
Year after year, notable figures and institutions attempt to recast Martin Luther King Jr. as champion of causes that don't align with his legacy.
Source: Rolling Stone
Jan 22, 2019
"The more you build walls, the more the other side becomes foreign and you fear it."
Source: Associated Press
Jan 22, 2019
"For the most part, the museum does a fair job of explaining the agency's metamorphosis."
Source: NPR
Jan 21, 2019
In an interview, Gates discusses how what he learned through his own DNA test.
Source: Newsweek
Jan 21, 2019
Zelizer said the Trump administration is "antithetical to absolutely everthing" King fought for.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 21, 2019
by Charles Lane
The contemporary relevance of “The Vital Center” lies not so much in its specifics as in its spirit.
Source: New York Times
Jan 20, 2019
Through memoir, interviews and extensive reading, Treuer counters the familiar narratives of invisibility that have so readily frozen America’s indigenous peoples.
Source: NPR
Jan 18, 2019
The first government shutdown in history was in 1879, when former Confederate Democrats in Congress refused to fund the government unless protections for black voters went away.
Source: Independent
Jan 18, 2019
Lucy Worsley presents American History’s Biggest Fibs.
Source: Tennessee Tribune
Jan 17, 2019
One of Memphis foremost historians of Black music, she taught at two of the city’s historically Black colleges for forty years.
Source: Guardian
Jan 17, 2019
He was branded a Stalinist, and was spied on for decades by MI5, but was the famous historian a hardliner and renegade? His private papers tell a different story.
Source: New York Magazine
Jan 17, 2019
We asked three experts a simple question: Who does Ocasio-Cortez remind you of most strongly in American political history?
