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: NYT
Jul 19, 2018
A Trump official claimed that birthright citizenship rests on a “deliberate misreading” of the 14th Amendment.
Source: Herald-Dispatch
Jul 19, 2018
The Clio app picks up a user's location anywhere in the United States and tells him or her about the history and culture that surrounds him or her.
Source: Jewish News
Jul 18, 2018
The charge was leveled after Croatia’s parliament passed legislation last month barring public access to archive materials on individuals aged 100 and over, living and deceased.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 16, 2018
by Waitman Wade Beorn
Parallels lie in authoritarianism, racism, ethnic myths and dehumanizing language, not the Final Solution.
Source: CNBC
Jul 15, 2018
Populists, he says, are "selling people nostalgic fantasies about the past instead of real visions for the future.”
Source: The Denver Post
Jul 13, 2018
by Patty Limerick
Prodding a historic friend to do better.
Source: The Times of London
Jul 13, 2018
George Garnett reports that 88 belonged to horses and humans accounted for the others.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jul 12, 2018
A letter raising concerns about proposed sessions that were rejected for the International Congress on Medieval Studies has drawn hundreds of signatures.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 12, 2018
by Matthew A. Sears
Even by the standards of their day, many heroes of Western civilization engaged in immoral acts, he notes.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jul 12, 2018
Medieval studies groups say a major conference is trying to limit the number of diverse voices and topics. The debate is part of a bigger fight over whether medieval studies should remain a fundamentally European field.
Source: NPR
Jul 11, 2018
In an interview Dallek says that FDR always worked hard to win over large majorities for social change, unlike Trump, who plays to his base.
Source: Haaretz
Jul 11, 2018
The book has been translated into some 30 languages and sold some 8 million copies worldwide.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jul 9, 2018
by Jonathan Zimmerman
That’s sparked a controversy about what she’ll be earning.
Source: Politico
Jul 9, 2018
The Republican senator and persistent Trump critic stokes speculation about his intentions with a soon-to-publish book and new nonprofit.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jul 9, 2018
The American Historical Association this week launches Where Historians Work an online tool tracking career outcomes for the more than 8,500 historians who earned their Ph.D.s at U.S. institutions between 2004 and 2014.
Source: Network of Concerned Historians
Jul 7, 2018
Where historians are being assaulted, attacked and sidelined around the world.
Source: Harvard Magazine
Jul 5, 2018
The idea: The relationship between race and crime.
Source: New Republic
Jul 3, 2018
by Jeet Heer
And then other historians join in.
Source: Radio Free Europe
Jul 3, 2018
Russian authorities have formally indicted historian Yury Dmitriyev on a charge of sexual assault against his adopted daughter following an earlier acquittal on child-pornography charges.
Source: USA Today
Jul 3, 2018
It uses history to explain today's divides.
