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: War On The Rocks
Dec 10, 2018
by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin
The discipline mostly has itself to blame for its current woes, say historians Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin.
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
Dec 8, 2018
The elder statesman and griot of Chicago’s black community is 100 years old.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 7, 2018
One veteran Mississippi teacher is forgoing textbooks for the local archives.
Source: Columbia Basin Herald
Dec 7, 2018
The change came after the faculty union intervened in the case of Central Washington University professor Brian Carroll.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 6, 2018
by Jason Steinhauer
Economics alone doesn’t explain the decline in history majors.
Source: The Daily Beast
Dec 6, 2018
Around the country, amateur historians and professors are pulling up a bar stool and lecturing on a range of topics.
Source: Simon and Schuster (Special to HNN)
Dec 5, 2018
An interview with Barry Strauss.
Source: Yale News
Dec 5, 2018
History remains the third most popular major for the class of 2019 as the department sponsors new efforts to bolster its global focus.
Source: The Baffler
Dec 5, 2018
by Kathryn Olmsted
Why today’s historians (but not pundits) are reluctant to embrace Hofstadter’s approach.
Source: S-USIH
Dec 5, 2018
by Andrew Hartman
A reminiscence by one of his former graduate students.
Source: The Conversation
Dec 4, 2018
by Jane Landers
The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
Source: The GW Hatchet
Dec 3, 2018
The George Washington University professor became famous for his book, “The Old Christian Right."
Source: The Globe and Mail
Nov 29, 2018
Students in the Grade 9 and 10 Canadian and Quebec history classes are being taught a “skewed, one-sided view of the past that distorts the historical record,” according to the committee report.
Source: Bloomberg
Nov 29, 2018
by Tyler Cowen
The first group stresses how small decisions can change the world. The other looks at how larger trends shape decisions.
Source: Medium
Nov 28, 2018
by Joy Lisi Rankin
"This essay is about me standing up for myself and facing down the bullies.”
Source: Pacific Standard Magazine
Nov 28, 2018
His battle with Dinesh D’Souza.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 27, 2018
Dr. Braham described Holocaust scholarship as his “destiny” and fought against moves to whitewash Hungarian collusion with Nazi authorities.
Source: Simon & Schuster (Special to HNN)
Nov 27, 2018
He worked on his just-published biography of Douglass for ten years.
Source: VOA News
Nov 26, 2018
Stanford’s Sam Wineburg suggests that with the Internet there’s no reason for students to lug around big textbooks anymore.
Source: Perspectives on History
Nov 26, 2018
by Benjamin M. Schmidt
Of all the major disciplines, history has seen the steepest declines in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded.
