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.
Feb 6, 2018
by Robert Townsend
As of 2015, the median earnings for history majors in the workforce with just a bachelor’s degree were $53,000, while those who had gone on to earn an advanced degree (which could be in any discipline) had median earning of $80,000.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 6, 2018
by Peter Cole
Western Illinois University’s Peter Cole says "Americans cannot afford to continue ignoring our history of racist violence."
Source: New Republic
Feb 6, 2018
A conversation with historian Elizabeth Catte, author of a new book that upends narratives about a region that has been dubbed Trump Country
Source: AHA
Feb 6, 2018
The organization is asking members to fill out a survey.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 5, 2018
by Max Boot
"It is up to House leaders — that means you, Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) — to stop Nunes before he smears again.”
Source: WSJ
Feb 5, 2018
by David J. Garrow
In an op ed in the Wall Street Journal he argues that the FBI surveillance of Carter Page is comparable to the Bureau’s wiretapping of MLK.
Source: The Calvert Journal
Feb 5, 2018
His current project is a monumental nine-volume history of the Russian state up to 1917.
Source: Daily Beast
Feb 5, 2018
by Anthony Clark
She Was Assaulted by the Head of the National Archives. Then the Bush White House Helped Cover It Up.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 4, 2018
by Stéphane Gerson
That prompted Stéphane Gerson to develop an obsessive desire to investigate the history of the river where the accident took place.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Feb 3, 2018
In an interview the historian says "I have many worries about him but at this point I emphatically like most of his Middle East policy.”
Source: WSJ
Feb 2, 2018
What was striking about the 1790s, Mr. Wood emphasizes, is the extent to which each party sincerely believed the other posed an existential threat.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Feb 1, 2018
by Victoria L. Jackson
The non-revenue athletes don't get paid but most generate huge sums for the schools where they play. Oh, and most are black.
Source: The Times (London)
Feb 1, 2018
His offense? Sharing on Facebook a picture of a handbag by the prime minister’s wife that appears to be an expensive one by Hermes priced at $64,000.
Source: National Post
Jan 31, 2018
Sebastien Normandin, whose whereabouts are unknown, remains active on social media — writing on Facebook, "... jail is as bad as it gets. Avoid at all costs"
Source: NPR
Jan 31, 2018
Historian Elizabeth Catte takes on J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
Source: Literary Hub
Jan 31, 2018
by T.J. Stiles
His answer? 400 years of tribalism, genocide, explosion and imprisonment.
Source: NYT
Jan 31, 2018
Mr. Pincus-Witten, who wrote for Artforum magazine for nearly 50 years, was credited with coining the term Post-Minimalism.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Jan 31, 2018
Editor Alex Lichtenstein says his project involves "Decolonizing the AHR."
Source: The Guardian
Jan 30, 2018
by Charlotte Higgins
How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual.
Source: Salon
Jan 30, 2018
by Jeanne Theoharis
In a new book the political scientist and historian argues that the protests of Black Lives Matter are, contrary to the critics, fully in keeping with those of the sixties.
