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: Philly.com
Apr 19, 2017
by Jonathan Zimmerman
"I'm a liberal Democrat. But I'm also an advocate for unbridled free speech, which makes me a ‘conservative' on many college campuses these days."
Source: Princeton Alumni Weekly
Apr 19, 2017
A conversation.
Source: Time Magazine
Apr 18, 2017
He's said he does not read history, or presidential biographies, because, as he said, he has a mind that can reach beyond all that. That’s utter nonsense."
Source: USA Today
Apr 18, 2017
Professor Lars Maischak sent the tweet on Feb. 18. It's been a bumpy road for him ever since.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 18, 2017
by Scott Jaschik
Many historians are outraged. The AHR has decided not to pull the review. Instead, it's commissioned a new one.
Source: Yale Daily News
Apr 14, 2017
Chauncey is leaving Yale for Columbia.
Source: Politico
Apr 13, 2017
The professor’s last prediction came true (he predicted Trump’s election) .
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 12, 2017
“With 28 followers on Twitter at the time, I never expected them to be read by anyone but a close circle of acquaintances who would know to place them in their context.”
Source: The Buffalo News
Apr 11, 2017
It’s "The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For,” a collection of his talks.
Source: People's World
Apr 11, 2017
In an interview he says writing what Nietzsche called “critical” history is itself an act of opposition – and very much needed in the age of Trump.
Source: NYT
Apr 11, 2017
by Rick Perlstein
In an article in the NYT Magazine he writes that the history of conservatism has to be rewritten to include "political surrealists and intellectual embarrassments, its con artists and tribunes of white rage.”
Source: Michigan News
Apr 10, 2017
The answer is Heather Ann Thompson for her book on the Attica Prison uprising.
Source: The Paris Review
Apr 10, 2017
“When will the next book be published?”
Source: AHA
Apr 10, 2017
by Paul B. Sturtevant
Fighting myths with data.
Source: WTSP
Apr 9, 2017
History professor Lars Maischak sent out two tweets in February. The first said: "To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better. #TheResistance #DeathToFascism".
Source: KSDK
Apr 9, 2017
Stephen Kissel lost his sight as a teenager, but he never lost sight of his goals.
Source: Time Magazine
Apr 7, 2017
In January, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History announced that Theresa McCulla would be the Smithsonian's new "brewing historian." For National Beer Day, TIME talked to her about what's brewing on the research front.
Source: MLive
Apr 7, 2017
Ever since he was a young boy, hockey has been a defining factor in Bruce Berlund's life.
Source: Viking
Apr 7, 2017
by Alec Ryrie
“The first Protestants didn’t set out to create the world we live in now, but some key features of that world come directly from them.”
Apr 7, 2017
No, they aren't in agreement.
