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: OAH Email Alert
Jan 24, 2017
"Together, we will communicate that public support for the humanities benefits students, teachers, and communities across the country."
Source: The Times Higher Eduacation
Jan 22, 2017
by Emily Michelson
During a hospital stay, Emily Michelson learned why the humanities and sciences are in no way opposites.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 21, 2017
by Timothy Garton Ash
Under President Trump, we’ll enter an age of global confrontation.
Source: NYT
Jan 21, 2017
“I wrote this book to expose lies and restore the truth,” Yang Jisheng writes in the book.
Source: Moyers & Company
Jan 20, 2017
Bill Moyers and four historians on the big lie behind the rise of Trump.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 18, 2017
H.W. Brands, James Grossman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Julian Zelizer et al.
Source: NYT
Jan 18, 2017
There’s one aspect of his record that has received less attention: his legacy as a historian.
Source: The Los Angeles Crier
Jan 18, 2017
Smaller states do not need or warrant added protections, and a vote should count the same no matter where it is cast.
Source: Informed Comment
Jan 18, 2017
by Juan Cole
They galvanized Tunisian youth and activists against the brutal dictatorship of Zine el Abidine ben Ali.
Source: NYT
Jan 17, 2017
His studies of the architecture of Michelangelo and Palladio remain classics in the field.
Source: LobeLog
Jan 17, 2017
"My position is that the United States is much worse off today than it was in 2009, when Obama became the president.” – John Mearsheimer
Source: AHA
Jan 17, 2017
The AHA has gathered data from more than 30 departments that grant history PhDs and, using that information, has created the only interactive, discipline-specific, and cross-institutional database of career outcomes for PhDs.
Source: The GW Hatchet
Jan 17, 2017
People mistakenly thought that GW was no longer teaching US history.
Source: Los Angeles Daily News
Jan 15, 2017
Starr, a former California State Librarian, researched and wrote “Americans and the California Dream,” a series of books considered the definitive account of the California story.
Source: The Seattle Times
Jan 15, 2017
“The greatest strategic threat the U.S. faces is the general ignorance of the past and how the past is with us every day,” said David Kohnen, interim executive director at the U.S. Naval War College Museum.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 14, 2017
Sixteen years after an English court discredited his work and the judge called him “antisemitic and racist”, the historian David Irving claims he is inspiring a new generation of “Holocaust skeptics.”
Source: Quartz
Jan 14, 2017
"Its success has been so hegemonic for so long it’s not surprising there’s a reaction against it."
Source: The Spectator
Jan 14, 2017
by Hakim Adi
There were many African settlers in Britain even before the Romans, he says.
Source: KXLF
Jan 13, 2017
by Tim Naftali
He notes that other presidents have declassified secrets before.
