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: NYT
Apr 7, 2017
by Roderick MacFarquhar
The surprise? MacFarquhar thinks a deal is possible.
Apr 7, 2017
What happens when historians are called to testify in court cases.
Apr 6, 2017
What's happening at the annual meeting being held in New Orleans.
Source: Yale Daily News
Apr 6, 2017
Until the early 2000s, the history major was the largest at Yale before its popularity began to wane, which History Director of Undergraduate Studies Alan Mikhail said was consistent with a national trend.
Source: NYT
Apr 6, 2017
by Michael Kazin
Wilson’s late entry into the Great War changed history — and not necessarily for the better.
Source: The Daily Beast
Apr 5, 2017
Garrow berates the media for not digging deeply into Obama’s past. Did you know he wrote a book in law school?
Source: Cambridge Network
Apr 5, 2017
A new biography released later this month sets out the true nature of screen comedian Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with fascism – one which was far from black and white.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2017
by Max Boot
In an op ed for the LA Times he counts the ways Trump has gone where no president has before.
Source: NYT
Apr 4, 2017
Witt redrew the map of the Renaissance through influential studies that identified the first stirrings of Italian humanism in a period well before the birth of its traditional father, Petrarch.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Apr 4, 2017
by Daniel Pipes
In an article for National Review Pipes embraces Niall Ferguson’s indictment of the profession, saying it’s been hollowed out by scholars who focused on gender and culture.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 4, 2017
He wanted to leave his body to science.
Source: Slate
Apr 3, 2017
"I was struck by the fact that the two sides of him seemed to mirror the two sides of his parents."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 2, 2017
by Johanna Hanink
The issue is that public conversation is lacking a diversity of opinions and perspectives not only on the usual big-book topics — "the invention of the West," "how X civilization rose and fell," etc. — but also on what kind of topics deserve having big books written about them.
Mar 30, 2017
by Kevin M. Kruse
In a series of tweets he lays out the history, which goes back to the nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice.
Source: WaPo
Mar 28, 2017
by Randy Barnett
A fight over originalism.
Source: cleveland.com
Mar 28, 2017
The PBS documentarian announced Tuesday that he and two partners will make a two-part, four-hour film about the former heavyweight champ, who died last June.
Source: The Nation
Mar 28, 2017
by Jon Wiener
Well, they both disliked the media, but only Trump was undisciplined enough to come out and say it.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 27, 2017
In a career that traversed law, journalism and education, Mr. Wilkins made matters of race and poverty central to his work as an assistant attorney general in the Johnson administration and later as one of the first black editorial board members at The Post and the New York Times.
Source: WBUR
Mar 27, 2017
"By going for this crazy, difficult, complicated problem first — without knowing you had your own party behind you — I think it's just gonna cast a shadow on everything else."
Source: NYT
Mar 27, 2017
Christina Vella was the author of several colorful works of narrative history, notably “Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba,” a tale of wealth and scandal in 19th-century France and New Orleans.
