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 Local
Jan 30, 2018
The collaborator appeared at Copenhagen City court in a defamation case against historian Bent Jensen and publisher Gyldendal over two statements made in the 2014 book Ulve, får og vogtere I (Wolves, Sheep and Guards I).
Source: Facebook
Jan 29, 2018
by Heather Cox Richardson
His belief that rich people know better.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Jan 29, 2018
"One factor that underlies most of these breakdowns is extreme polarization."
Source: The Malay Mail Online
Jan 29, 2018
Anatoly Razumov says his work is greeted with “indifference” at home.
Source: The New Yorker
Jan 29, 2018
Speaking publicly for the first time, the historian reveals the crucial role that he and a small band of others played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.
Source: ABC7
Jan 28, 2018
The teacher is a Pico Rivera city councilman.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 27, 2018
Historians hit back as former skills minister Robert Halfon seeks to axe government subsidies for people who study the subject.
Source: Financial Times
Jan 26, 2018
Ahead of the BBC’s nine-part ‘Civilisations’ series, the presenter and historian picks his personal wonders of the world.
Source: UVA Today (University of Virginia)
Jan 26, 2018
“He has neither improved relations with Russia, which he had stated he wanted to do, nor constrained Russian actions in Ukraine or Syria, nor confronted Putin over electoral intervention here and in Europe.”
Source: Florida State University News (Press Release)
Jan 26, 2018
Annika A. Culver surveyed the state of Florida for examples of college courses on the history and culture of North Korea, she was surprised to come up empty.
Source: Vox
Jan 25, 2018
Sam Brownback, new ambassador for religious freedom, is an admirer of controversial “scholar” David Barton.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Jan 24, 2018
Stephan Templ, imprisoned over disputed fraud charges, chronicles how modern-day Austria gave its seal of approval for flawed restitution practices that were overseen by former Nazis.
Source: The American Conservative
Jan 24, 2018
by Andrew Bacevich
"The NDS contains several extraordinary statements. Yet none top this one: 'Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy.’ ”
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 23, 2018
by Niall Ferguson
The reason Obama never went is that, aside from raising campaign funds from them, he had little real use for businessmen. Trump, by contrast, is a businessman.
Source: Politico
Jan 22, 2018
Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.
Source: Press Release
Jan 22, 2018
by Van Gosse
Franklin and Marshall College's Van Gosse is helping organize a national student voter conference on March 3, 2018 to help students vote. (State legislatures are barring the use of college-issued IDs, even from public universities.)
Source: NY Post
Jan 20, 2018
Edgar McManus, 93, a retired Queens College history professor, received $561,286 last year.
Source: NYT
Jan 20, 2018
The Times devoted an entire page to the response.
Source: The Daily Mail
Jan 20, 2018
by Andrew Roberts
The conservative British historian who once described Trump as a clown says the president has many accomplishments to brag about.
Source: Fox News
Jan 19, 2018
by Allen C. Guelzo
Yes, this is news. There aren’t many professional historians who approve of Trump.
