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: WaPo
Jun 6, 2018
Dr. Berlin, along with historians such as David Brion Davis and Eugene D. Genovese, “really put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”
Source: Philly Voice
Jun 5, 2018
William Livingston was disgusted by the behavior of white children at a burger joint in Harlem.
Source: Buzzfeed
Jun 5, 2018
Political books are hot — and the former national security adviser might want in.
Source: Radio Free Asia
Jun 4, 2018
"The highest achievements of the Chinese people consist of lying, cooking the books and issuing fake contracts."
Source: Protest Group
Jun 3, 2018
They object to his role in the Iraq War disaster. 277 scholars – young and old – have signed an open letter protesting Petraeus’s selection.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 3, 2018
The Australian-born Dr. Conway was just 40 when, in 1975, she became the first woman to lead Smith, the nation’s largest liberal arts institution for women.
Source: NYT
Jun 2, 2018
“It’s not unusual for an art historian or critic to mingle with artists; it is unusual for an art historian to turn those interactions and the firsthand knowledge that results into the basis for scholarship."
Source: CNN
Jun 1, 2018
by Julian Zelizer
“The GOP opened the door to this kind of politics — the disregard for norms of governance, the adversarial posture toward institutions, and the willingness to throw into the public conversation arguments that are untrue."
Source: The Stanford Daily
May 31, 2018
“I very much regret the publication of these emails. I also regret having written them."
Source: NY Review of Books
May 31, 2018
by David Margolick
In his 6,000 word daily journal Schlesinger never even bothered to note when he first met RFK. Later he fell in love.
Source: CP24
May 30, 2018
In August, the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario called for the removal of Macdonald's name from elementary schools in the province, referring to him as the “architect of genocide against Indigenous Peoples.”
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
May 30, 2018
by Daniel Pipes
Russian scholar Richard Pipes died in mid-May at age 94.
Source: The Guardian
May 29, 2018
by Antony Beevor
His favorite? "The 317th Platoon," a French film from 1965 set during the country’s first Indochina war.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 29, 2018
by Scott Jaschik
Three historians have issued a manifesto saying that the discipline of history has become dominated by empiricist approaches, to the neglect of the role of theory.
Source: Princeton University Press
May 28, 2018
Economist Sebastian Edwards wants you to remember it happened and it was FDR who did it.
Source: PBS: The News Hour
May 28, 2018
In an interview on PBS he admits its difficult to have a sense of proportion at a time like this, but we can still be proud of this country.
Source: NYT
May 27, 2018
by Andrew W. Kahrl
Jim Crow existed in the North, too, but in disguise
Source: Special to HNN
May 25, 2018
by William Polk
The situation is terrible now and looks like it will get worse.
Source: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
May 25, 2018
This is happening while the number of history majors at 4 year colleges is in decline.
Source: NYT
May 24, 2018
by Carl T. Bogus
The theory: The amendment was included in part to protect slavery
