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: Democracy Now
Oct 11, 2016
In an interview he also focused on the tragedy of Syrian refugees.
Source: Basic Books: Special to HNN
Oct 11, 2016
The book is by Cait Murphy.
Source: NYT
Oct 10, 2016
A leading historian of Jewish rabbinical texts, Neusner published over 900 books devoted to compartative religion, history and legal theory.
Source: Historians Against War
Oct 10, 2016
The group says it's already got 75 signatures, including several from former AHA presidents.
Source: Press Release
Oct 10, 2016
"There is much that our leaders could learn from Genghis Khan, but we generally consider ourselves to be morally superior to him and therefore remain unwilling to learn.”
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 7, 2016
by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur
Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur say there’s a perfect place for it … in Beaufort County, SC.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Oct 6, 2016
The author will recount the story through generations of extraordinary families that explored and settled the Northwest Territory. The book will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2019.
Source: Wonders and Marvels
Oct 6, 2016
"I first heard the story of Forsyth’s racial cleansing when I was seven years old, from kids on the school bus."
Source: National post
Oct 5, 2016
Michael Danaher tortured him and stabbed him more than 30 times, killing him in order to steal the book, say police.
Source: Heatstreet
Oct 5, 2016
“It’s something that disturbs me because I believe that we’re a nation that gets other nations to tear down walls, not put them up.” — Matt Warshauer, history professor at Central Connecticut State University
Source: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Oct 4, 2016
by Kevin Mattson
Why wouldn't he? “He saw voting as a form of personal self-expression and not a public choice."
Source: National Book Awards
Oct 4, 2016
The winner will be announced in November. This is the list of semifinalists.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 3, 2016
"If someone said, Let’s make a movie about a historian, I’d say bo-ring.” — Deborah E. Lipstadt
Source: The Baffler
Sep 30, 2016
by Allison Miller
Empathy is the essence of academic historical methodology today. But in the episodes of Revisionist History that actually deal with history, people of the past come across as basically the same as we are today.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Sep 30, 2016
Her new book: “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation
Sep 30, 2016
by Rick Shenkman
The list includes Conrad Black, Arthur Herman, Diana West and others.
Source: Radio Free Europe
Sep 29, 2016
We need to remember what happened “because memory is not just about history, it is about the future."
Source: Press Release: The Zinn Education Project
Sep 29, 2016
The Zinn Education Project is launching a new website — zinnedproject.org/ABOLISH — to help schools and communities introduce legislation to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.
Source: Press Release: Library of Congress
Sep 29, 2016
Widmer was a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University from 1993-1997. He briefly left academia to serve as special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and director for speechwriting at the National Security Council under Bill Clinton.
Source: Oregon Live
Sep 28, 2016
History suggests he's exploiting forces that generally drive populists.
