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: BBC
Nov 4, 2017
Historians usually document history - they rarely walk into the pages themselves.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 3, 2017
The historian is the author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," a book he’d never planned to write.
Source: The Chicago Maroon
Nov 2, 2017
Medieval history professor Rachel Fulton Brown backed right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos after he was accused of supporting pedophilia.
Source: AHA Today
Nov 2, 2017
by Carol Symes
"With every passing day, the AHA’s upcoming annual meeting on the theme of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective is becoming more and more urgent."
Source: The Jewish Chronicle
Nov 2, 2017
The acclaimed historian made his remarks at the Balfour Centenary Lecture.
Source: Financial Times
Nov 1, 2017
by Simon Schama
“[A]s many Zionists have known and argued, the fulfilment of a national home will turn not just on power but on ethics, in which case the humanity of the other people of the land needs to be respected, too."
Source: The Conversation
Nov 1, 2017
by William Deverell
He gave the world the idea of the California Dream.
Source: Kearney Hub
Oct 31, 2017
Carole Levin’s interest in Queen Elizabeth I began when she first picked up a biography of the monarch.
Source: Law firm of Sanford Heisler Sharp (Press Release)
Oct 31, 2017
"In the wake of a lawsuit alleging that tenured professor William V. Harris sexually harassed a female graduate student, Columbia University yesterday announced that Harris was withdrawing from teaching and all other student-related activities.”
Source: Arutz Sheva
Oct 30, 2017
Newly discovered documents show Hitler only joined Nazi party after being rejected by his first choice, the German Socialist Party.
Source: Moyers & Company
Oct 30, 2017
by Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers talks to historian Rick Perlstein about Trump’s conquest of the GOP.
Source: The GW Hatchet
Oct 30, 2017
“We believe it is critical to understand and learn from every aspect of our past, including engagement with slavery and the reality of racial inequality that followed.” – Katrin Schultheiss, the chair of the history department.
Oct 29, 2017
In 1971, Nochlin earned widespread attention for her landmark essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” which approached that question with incisive and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how, for centuries, institutional and societal structures had made it “impossible for women to achieve artistic excellence, or success, on the same footing as men, no matter what the potency of their so-called talent, or genius.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 27, 2017
The Yale historian has become a prominent critic of liberalism. But what’s he for?
Source: The Weekly Standard
Oct 27, 2017
by James M. Banner Jr.
The dual careers of JFK's chronicler.
Source: rediff.com
Oct 26, 2017
"Studying History, we come close to all of the messiness of human life -- we understand what motivates people, what makes them get along or go to war, what dreams they had for themselves and their futures."
Source: The Cornell Daily Sun
Oct 25, 2017
“The more just and astute the elite, the less angry the people.” – Barry Strauss
Source: New Republic
Oct 25, 2017
by Josephine Livingstone
The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?
Source: Stanford
Oct 24, 2017
Stanford’s Sam Wineburg reports that historians mistakenly fail to cross-check sources.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Oct 24, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, ‘The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve’
