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: AHA Today
Dec 11, 2017
by Dane Kennedy
Louis Hyman says the nature of the changes being wrought by innovation are unprecedented.
Source: BESA Center Online Debate
Dec 11, 2017
by Daniel Pipes
"Good for Trump ignoring threats of the Arab street rising up; the riot veto must not be allowed to determine policy."
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian
Dec 10, 2017
She says it was her choice.
Source: xinhuanet.com
Dec 10, 2017
South Africa's National Heritage Council (NHC) has called on the country's black historians to make an effort to correct the distortions of history in some books by white historians.
Source: The Nation
Dec 8, 2017
by Rashid Khalidi
But he sees a silver lining: “The US Can No Longer Pretend to Be an Honest Broker of Peace.”
Source: NYT
Dec 8, 2017
NYT details the complaints against Greco-Roman historian William V. Harris.
Source: The Middle East Media Research Institute
Dec 7, 2017
His comments were circulated widely by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Source: American Historical Association email to members
Dec 7, 2017
For the first time, the AHA annual meeting will include a set of late-breaking sessions, submitted just months before the meeting to allow historians to respond to current events.
Source: WTOP
Dec 7, 2017
He stayed anonymous for more than three years, documenting Islamic State’s atrocities and the destruction of his city as the blogger Mosul Eye. Omar Mohammed, now in Europe, is done hiding.
Source: The New Yorker
Dec 6, 2017
Chief among them is historian Lyndall Ryan, who says her fellow historians are in denial about the extent of the massacres.
Source: Seton Hall University
Dec 6, 2017
Professor Connell tells how although Italians did not come to this country venerating Columbus, they found here an American public that did.
Source: Network of Concerned Historians
Dec 6, 2017
by Antoon De Baets
Chinese-born American history student Xiyue Wang was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in Iran on trumped-up charges of espionage. He was doing archival research about the history of the Qajar dynasty (1785–1925).
Source: National Association of Scholars (NAS)
Dec 5, 2017
The group that pushed for changes – the National Association of Scholars – says it’s an improvement but more changes are needed.
Source: Foreign Policy
Dec 5, 2017
by Max Boot
"The only remaining question is what exactly he’s guilty of.”
Source: NIU Newsroom
Dec 4, 2017
“She was the lead organizer of the United Mine Workers of America and helped to end child labor. Yet she is largely forgotten.”
Source: American Historical Association email to members
Dec 4, 2017
by James Grossman
The House tax cut bill contains a provision that would make tuition waivers for graduate students subject to income tax, significantly increasing the tax liability of hundreds of thousands of graduate students. The Senate bill does not include that provision.
Source: AHA
Dec 4, 2017
by Allison Miller
"History, of course, is tremendously complicated. That’s part of its beauty. … But the cliché bespeaks a set of assumptions about how one must think about history and then go about doing it."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 3, 2017
Gopal Balakrishnan has denied the accusations, which were made by seven anonymous individuals whose accounts are part of a public statement circulating on the internet.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 2, 2017
A conversation about tweets, politics, women rights.
Source: NYT
Dec 1, 2017
“I think he probably did more than anyone else over the last 60 years to affect not just architecture but architecture culture as well,” one disciple said.
