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 Nation
Feb 15, 2017
"Bipartisan allegations that Trump is a “puppet” of or “compromised” by the Kremlin have grown into latter-day McCarthyism with grave threats to America and the world."
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Feb 14, 2017
by Masuda Hajimu
As he explains in this excerpt he argues that the actual divides of the Cold War existed not necessarily between the Eastern and Western blocs but within each society.
Source: Artsy
Feb 13, 2017
An art historian now holds one of the most important national security jobs in the country.
Source: Business Insider
Feb 13, 2017
"Maybe of all of the misconceptions, the greatest is that there’s a set of prescriptions, or a set of doctrines, even dogmas, that necessarily incline Muslims to take specific positions on politics." - Chase F. Robinson
Source: Slate
Feb 10, 2017
"Of course history never repeats itself. Democracy dies in different ways at different times.”
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Feb 10, 2017
In an interview he says it would be a mistake for Trump to focus on ISIS in Syria since it’s the government that’s responsible for 90% of the deaths.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Feb 9, 2017
"Case-method history asks students to put themselves in the shoes of historical decision-makers and to try to wrestle with those decisions looking forward, as if the students were there at the time.”
Source: Time Magazine
Feb 8, 2017
by Edie S. Glaude
"The yearly ritual of Black History Month ideally strips away the illusions of our national myth. It is a 28-day refusal to turn the page."
Source: NYT
Feb 8, 2017
A Parisian educated in France and the United States, Professor de La Grange was inspired to pursue his life's work after a Carnegie Hall concert in 1945.
Source: The Nation
Feb 8, 2017
by Richard Kreitner
His new book is about civil wars.
Source: The Jewish Chronicle
Feb 7, 2017
French Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan is being sued by Muslim anti-racism groups for saying in a radio debate: “In French Arab families, babies suckle antisemitism with their mothers’ milk.”
Source: NYT
Feb 7, 2017
Mr. Todorov became prominent in the 1970s for his work on structuralism, a method of interpretation — influenced by cultural anthropology — that focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behavior.
Source: philly.com
Feb 7, 2017
She tells the story in a new book, "Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.”
Source: Gothamist
Feb 6, 2017
An interview with Isabel Virginia Hull, professor of history at Cornell University, one of the foremost scholars on modern Germany.
Source: World Socialist Web Site
Feb 6, 2017
The professor of Eastern European history at Humboldt University in Berlin denounced refugees.
Source: NY Review of Books
Feb 6, 2017
by Jessica T. Mathews
While they have obvious points of overlap with Trump’s belligerence, neocons believe in constant, active global engagement by the US to advance both American power and values.
Source: NYT
Feb 3, 2017
Ms. Ashton wrote sweeping histories and intimate studies devoted to individual artists, especially those in the world of Abstract Expressionism.
Source: The Atlantic
Feb 2, 2017
"Immigration restriction in the United States was rooted in poverty.”
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Feb 2, 2017
by John Fea
Barton claims the Declaration of Independence is based on Bible verses.
Source: The National Coalition for History
Feb 2, 2017
Effective January 8, 2017, Dr. Turkiya L. Lowe entered on duty as the National Park Service’s new Chief Historian.
