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.
Sep 28, 2016
The opinions of Manisha Sinha, Juan Cole, Max Boot, Blair Kelley, Timothy Garton Ash, and others.
Source: Philly.com
Sep 28, 2016
Men and women together in class is as much a part of college life today as final exams and grade-point averages. Half a century ago, that wasn't the case at many elite colleges.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 27, 2016
Declassified MI5 records reveal party member thought leaders misled rank and file over Stalin’s crimes at height of cold war.
Source: Organization of American Historians (email)
Sep 26, 2016
Members will be voting to confirm the election of Edward Ayers as president of the organization.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 26, 2016
The Making and Knowing Lab is run by Columbia’s Center for Science and Society.
Source: Tacoma Weekly
Sep 26, 2016
“I was arrested in a Louisville, Ky. at a civil rights protest. That’s when they started my FBI file.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 25, 2016
by David M. Kennedy
"I was struck by how little difference there was between his public and private personae."
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 23, 2016
Meet the historian who just won a MacArthur genius award.
Source: Daily Mail
Sep 23, 2016
Pulitzer prize-winning historian Saul Friedlander, a world authority on the Holocaust, said Friday he would leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.
Source: NYT
Sep 23, 2016
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The museum helps resolve the protracted debate about the contributions of black people to American history and, indeed, about whether they had a history worth preserving at all.
Source: NYT
Sep 23, 2016
A World War IIveteran of the German army who argued as a historian that the German people had to take responsibility for the rise of Nazism because of their embrace of Hitler and his racist agenda, he died on Monday in Bonn.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 23, 2016
He’s been predicting the outcome of presidential elections since 1984. He’s been right every time.
Source: Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education
Sep 22, 2016
by Peter Feinman
She contrasted the Law School shield with the Confederate flag: the former was not created and has not been viewed as a symbol of slavery.
Source: Vanity Fair
Sep 21, 2016
They know each other so well they finish each other’s sentences.
Source: MacArthur Foundation
Sep 21, 2016
She is an art historian and curator deepening our understanding of contemporary art of the African Diaspora and securing its place in the canons of modern and contemporary art.
Source: OAH Process blog
Sep 20, 2016
Roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony Platt, and Heather Ann Thompson.
Source: Haaretz
Sep 20, 2016
Rokhl Oyerbakh and Deborah Lipstadt, featured in two upcoming films, testify to the Jewish life and culture destroyed in WWII and challenge Holocaust denial, a depressingly renewed presence in American politics.
Source: WBUR
Sep 19, 2016
Textbooks are often thought of as a critical tool for teachers in the classroom. But when it comes to teaching the history of race in the United States, WBUR has found that more and more teachers in Massachusetts are moving away from traditional textbooks.
Source: The Seattle Times
Sep 19, 2016
The documentary, “Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War,” tells the story of a Wellesley, Massachusetts, couple who rescued refugees and dissidents in Europe before and after the start of World War II.
Sep 19, 2016
His publisher -- Henry Holt -- is credited with the ad.
