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: Wisconsin Public Radio
Dec 22, 2016
Jon Grinspan, a Smithsonian historian, reports in his new book that young people voted en masse in wild and spectacular fashion, and were by far the most coveted demographic in politics.
Source: Press Release – Business History Conference
Dec 22, 2016
The Business History Conference is the largest professional organization of business historians in the United States.
Source: Haaretz
Dec 20, 2016
Georges Bensoussan's statements were 'dangerous and in line with far-right rhetoric' targeting Muslims, according to the Collective Against Islamophobia.
Source: Quartz
Dec 20, 2016
The suspended teacher was, according to her original letter explaining the assignment to students, trying “not to teach the students the Klan was correct in their behavior, but rather to teach the students to write persuasively.”
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Dec 20, 2016
'Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen,' Kissinger said on 'Face the Nation.'
Source: NYT
Dec 19, 2016
by Karen L. Cox
"My state was once a bastion of Southern progressivism. Now it’s a battleground in the war of urban versus rural voters.”
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Dec 19, 2016
by Daniel Pipes
Paelstinians in the end will be better off if they fail in their campaign to discredit the Israeli state.
Source: The Boston Globe
Dec 15, 2016
The discovery is based on digitized newspaper archives.
Source: The way of improvement leads home
Dec 15, 2016
by John Fea
In an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Ed he says: "Diversity as a social goal and aim of social reform is an excellent thing. But identity politics today isn’t about group belonging; it’s about personal identity."
Source: Press Release
Dec 15, 2016
The case involves the paper’s report that the US naval victory at Midway 6 months after Pearl Harbor was won by cracking Japan’s secret naval code.
Source: NYT
Dec 15, 2016
William B. Jordan, the art historian, said that he took his painting to the Prado’s art experts last year to have it authenticated after acquiring it in an auction in 1988.
Source: NYT
Dec 14, 2016
by Gregory P. Downs, Eric Foner, Kate Masur
"This is a crucial time to commemorate Reconstruction.”
Source: Petition
Dec 13, 2016
They have signed a petition posted online to protest trends that remind them of the worst abuses in the past – Japanese internment, among others.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 11, 2016
by Jacob Mikanowski
"Maybe we’ll go extinct. Maybe all the mammals will go extinct. Maybe we’ll screw up so much that even our phylum, the Chordates, will go extinct.”
Source: The American Prospect
Dec 9, 2016
by Peter Dreier
"Much of the information about me on the Watchlist is simply untrue."
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Dec 9, 2016
by John Fea
Blogger John Fea set off a Twitter debate with his use of the hashtag #AgeofTrump. Here's what he meant by it.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 8, 2016
"The shocking thing is how far they have deviated from the traditional strengths of history, in terms of using evidence and evaluating arguments.” – Economist Paul W. Rhode
Source: Salon
Dec 8, 2016
It was Gottfried who coined the term Alt-Right. (He also came up with Paleoconservative.)
Source: The Spectator
Dec 7, 2016
by Fraser Nelson
Some rise in his defense, including this author.
Source: Press Release
Dec 6, 2016
The NWHM announced today it will receive a $370,000 grant from the PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. in support of the Museum's efforts to develop advanced content capabilities for 21st century interactive learning modules, revamped curricula lessons and online exhibits and to optimize the content for mobile.
