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 New Yorker
Jun 13, 2017
The US and China aren’t headed toward war.
Source: The Times of Israel
Jun 13, 2017
The Brandeis historian says “it’s good for Jews to worry.”
Source: Holland Sentinel
Jun 9, 2017
Western Michigan University (WMU) history professor David Benac, of Kalamazoo, has announced he will seek the Michigan 6th Congressional District seat, currently held by U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph.
Source: The Boston Globe
Jun 9, 2017
“I had done tours for 15 summers during college and grad school, so I knew the tour industry pretty well, and I decided to try to put together tours focused on the kind of gay history issues I work on as a scholar.” – Andrew Lear
Source: PJ Media
Jun 8, 2017
"The equation of white marble with beauty is not an inherent truth of the universe; it's a dangerous construct that continues to influence white supremacist ideas today.” – Sarah Bond
Source: US Department of Defense
Jun 8, 2017
His name is Britt Zerbe and you can now find him on the deck of the USS Bataan.
Source: The Patriot Ledger
Jun 6, 2017
It’s “The Pioneers.” Scheduled to be published in 2019, it chronicles the early settlement of what was known as “the Old Northwest.”
Source: The Nation
Jun 6, 2017
by Guy Laron
Ever since 1967, writers have been debating the conflict.
Source: NY Review of Books
Jun 5, 2017
by Diane Ravitch
"The most devastating cuts are aimed at programs for public schools."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jun 5, 2017
Among majors within the humanities, the largest declines were among English and history -- disciplines that are traditionally the most popular in the humanities. They saw a combined drop of 10 percent in 2015 and a 16 percent drop from 2012 to 2015.
Source: The Paris Review
Jun 5, 2017
He wrote about Robert Moses because he thought journalists didn’t understand how power works.
Jun 4, 2017
At issue: when the USA gained formal recognition as an independent country.
Source: Truthdig
Jun 2, 2017
Steven Hahn and other historians who seemed to be searching for reasons to belittle Blumenthal’s achievement must now dispel their doubts.
Source: The Nation
Jun 1, 2017
by Eric Foner
"Then and now, the key issue facing American society was as old as the republic itself: Is it possible to reconcile capitalism and democracy? On this question, the jury is still out.”
Source: The Harvard Gazette
Jun 1, 2017
In a new book, “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?,” Allison examines the looming complications.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 1, 2017
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, canceled all her public lectures this week following an onslaught of email threats after a commencement address she gave was posted by Fox News.
Source: The New Republic
Jun 1, 2017
Watergate experts are in high demand these days—and torn about it.
Source: Commentary
May 31, 2017
by Max Boot
"Bad history begets bad politics.”
Source: WSJ
May 31, 2017
by HR McMaster & Gary Cohn
"A determination to stand up for our people and our way of life deepens our friends’ respect for America."
Source: NYT
May 30, 2017
His history of the Algerian struggle for independence, “A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962” (1977), written at the suggestion of Harold Macmillan, the former British prime minister, won the Wolfson Prize.
