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: Age of Revolutions
May 15, 2017
Here’s what people think of it now.
Source: NYT
May 15, 2017
Mr. Mahler, 81, is a former Marxist urban guerrilla who became an activist on the extreme right.
Source: The Atlantic
May 12, 2017
What they make of the dismissal of James Comes.
Source: NYT
May 12, 2017
“She raised the standard of the field by seamlessly weaving together the political, economic, diplomatic and social histories of late-20th-century United States history.”
Source: The Nation
May 11, 2017
by Greg Grandin
The historian is the author of a biography of Kissinger.
Source: The Atlantic
May 11, 2017
Does James Comey's Firing Have a Historical Precedent?
Source: project-syndicate.org
May 11, 2017
by Sean Wilentz
Why? Because the Congress is held by the GOP, unlike in Nixon’s day
Source: cnsnews.com
May 10, 2017
They are thrilled with Garrow’s new portrait in "Rising Star."
Source: NYT
May 10, 2017
A British historian and associate of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher whose magisterial work chronicled great upheaval in the Hispanic world, from Spain’s imperial expansion to its civil war, Thomas died after a stroke.
Source: Process
May 10, 2017
"In our scholarly mission to validate the widest possible span of black subjects as intellectuals we must be courageous enough to challenge Western ways of knowing when those very structures so often invalidate these black feelings as an element of black knowledge."
Source: Vanderbilt University
May 8, 2017
Losing his mother at an early age—“11 and three quarters,” he said—gave him a focus that has lasted through his life.
Source: The Washington Examiner
May 8, 2017
Trump was livid after reading McMaster called South Korean officials to say Trump's statement that the American ally would have to pay for a missile defense system wasn't official policy.
Source: Jacobin
May 5, 2017
by Ilan Pappe
Israel is not the only democracy in the Middle East. In fact, it's not a democracy at all.
Source: S-USIH
May 5, 2017
by Jesse Lemisch
The radical historian says the pursuit of a “usable past” is perhaps a good thing, but also a limiting goal.
Source: Lawrence Journal World
May 5, 2017
by Jacob Dorman
“There is no place for firearms in the classroom” – Associate Professor of History Jacob S. Dorman
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 3, 2017
"To be a legal advocate is freeing," says Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a history professor at Harvard.
Source: The Conversation
May 2, 2017
by Glen Ncube
But it’s one that raises many questions.
Source: Harvard Gazette
May 2, 2017
"You can’t let your emotions overtake you so much that you can’t do the work."
Source: Time Magazine
May 2, 2017
His book recounts the history of "how nuclear war would have actually worked — the nuts and bolts of war plans, communication networks, weapons, and bunkers — and how imagining and planning for the impact of nuclear war actually changed.”
Source: The Washington Post
May 2, 2017
Why? Because he remembers the past.
