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: AHA
Jan 12, 2017
The data point to continuing challenges for recent PhDs seeking academic appointments, with dozens of applicants competing for every entry-level job and unpredictable fluctuations in field-specific openings from year to year.
Source: NYT
Jan 11, 2017
by Max Boot i
“[It] is only one way to get to the bottom of this tawdry affair.”
Source: Forward
Jan 10, 2017
The answer is provided in a new book by historian Meron Medzini.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Jan 10, 2017
UCLA spokeswoman Kathryn Kranhold said Piterberg would continue to teach his classes throughout the quarter but that his lectures would be videotaped for students who prefer not to attend in person.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Jan 10, 2017
Professors say even introductory courses should make students think like historians.
Source: Informed Comment
Jan 10, 2017
by Juan Cole
"Many of the people around Trump, who speak for him on television, who are tapped to advise him on national security, on the environment, on issues like net neutrality, also exhibit clear signs of psychopathy.”
Jan 10, 2017
Images captured in the course of the annual convention of the AHA 2017.
Source: Middle East Online
Jan 9, 2017
“We are in a trap. Our Palestinian leadership has led us blindly not intentionally into that trap.”
Source: The Telegraph
Jan 9, 2017
Alex Bateman, a military historian, allegedly forged Christmas cards in a bid to steal a valuable logbook from the elderly widow of a Second World War hero captured during the 1943 "Dam Busters" mission.
Source: Politico
Jan 9, 2017
The media call her out for plagiarizing historian John Gaddis.
Source: NY Review of Books
Jan 9, 2017
by Timothy Garton Ash
In a long article in the NYRB about Europe’s political problems, Timothy Garton Ash says it’s real and here’s how to define it.
Source: The National
Jan 9, 2017
by Ellen Schrecker
An expert on the McCarthy Era, she writes from experience and research.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 7, 2017
by Peniel E Joseph
The Obamas leave the White House, if not the world stage, having accomplished, through sheer force of will, something entirely unprecedented in American history: humanizing the black experience by simply being themselves.
Jan 7, 2017
by Rick Shenkman
This ends for now a running campaign to put the AHA on record against Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Jan 7, 2017
by Rick Shenkman
In one way at least Donald Trump was like all presidents since FDR: He made a lot of promises about what he'll do in the First 100 Days.
Jan 7, 2017
by Rick Shenkman
Why were the pundits wrong and what we can now expect.
Jan 7, 2017
An interview with Jennifer Polk of Beyond the Professoriate.
Source: Special to HNN
Jan 7, 2017
by Daniel Pope
Her friends mourn her loss about a year ago.
Jan 6, 2017
We asked an expert – Robert Townsend – why the number of history majors has been declining and why jobs for historians are disappearing.
Jan 6, 2017
We asked historians attending the annual convention of the American Historical Association. Their answers ranged from an assault on truth to serious violations of the Constitution.
