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: The News and Observer
May 10, 2018
by Jay M. Smith
He says they made threats when he wanted to teach a course on the history of college sports.
Source: NPR
May 10, 2018
She’s discovered slaves were used as collateral for loans.
Source: Right Wing Watch
May 10, 2018
That’s what rightwing websites are touting.
Source: National Review
May 10, 2018
by Victor Davis Hanson
The two presidents share low approval ratings and a penchant for ad hominem attacks on political enemies.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
May 10, 2018
He wanted to expose the truth about the past they wanted to keep secret.
Source: NYT
May 9, 2018
Once again he warns we are living in dangerous times.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 9, 2018
At issue: The contingent careerscape for junior scholars.
Source: IMEMC News
May 8, 2018
Palestinians are better off without the U.S., he argues.
Source: NYT
May 8, 2018
In 1968, Mrs. Collins figured prominently in a turf war that evolved into a humble but symbolic civil rights struggle: a campaign by a coalition of black community groups and mostly white students and faculty to keep neighboring Columbia from impinging on two of Morningside Park’s mostly craggy 30 acres.
Source: American Historical Association (blog)
May 8, 2018
The answer is provided in the AHA's “Where Historians Work,” an ambitious research project designed to track the career outcomes of everyone who earned a PhD in history from 2004–13 in the United States.
May 6, 2018
by Kevin Kruse
Tweets tracing the effect of the civil rights struggle on the development of the two party system (1940s-1970s).
Source: Harvard Crimson
May 4, 2018
by Colleen Walsh
She got cancer twice and decided that if she was going to face risks she might as well take one herself. That led her to take a position as an administrator at Harvard.
Source: NYT
May 3, 2018
His name: Ulrich B. Phillips, Columbia University history professor at the turn off the 20th century.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 3, 2018
Jay Smith, a history professor at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has long accused the university of trying to interfere with his teaching of a class on college sports.
Source: The Nation
May 3, 2018
by Sophie Pinkham
"For Snyder, Russia is to blame for the growth of the “birther” conspiracy theory about Barack Obama, stoking the Scottish independence referendum, Brexit, the rise of the far right in various European countries, and the Syrian refugee crisis.”
Source: Facebook
May 3, 2018
by Heather Cox Richardson
"[T]his moment is a crisis for American democracy, perhaps THE crisis for American democracy."
Source: UChicago News
May 2, 2018
Assistant Professor Kathleen Belew traces birth of hate groups to Vietnam War.
Source: Today Online
May 2, 2018
Thum Ping Tji got into trouble for saying that "historically, there has only been one body that has peddled falsehoods — the People's Action Party (PAP) Government.”
Source: NYT
May 1, 2018
Fahy was a prominent historian of Florentine painters from the late 15th and early 16th centuries who joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a young curator and left to run the Frick Collection before returning to the Met as its chairman of European paintings.
Source: National Review
May 1, 2018
by Stanley Kurtz
"The most underappreciated political story of our time is the changing content of K-12 textbooks in history, civics, social studies, and related subjects.” – National Review’s Stanley Kurz
