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
May 26, 2016
by David Lowenthal
"Rescinding honors was imperial Rome’s damnatio memoriae: destroying or defacing statues, coins, arches, and documents that honored discredited rulers."
Source: Simon and Schuster
May 26, 2016
The book, out in July, will be published by Simon & Schuster.
Source: Financial Times
May 26, 2016
First came the "Historians for Britain," who gave support to Brexit claims. Now it’s the turn of historians opposed to Brexit.
Source: Washington College Press Release
May 25, 2016
The prize is for her book, “Join’d by Friendship, Crown’d by Love.”
Source: Monkey Cage (Washington Post)
May 25, 2016
"The biggest divide in 1968 was not the war in Vietnam, but rather race and growing white anxiety about the price they would have to pay for integration."
Source: CBS Minnesota
May 24, 2016
He objects to laws signed by Gov. Scott Walker that limited voting hours and require special ID to vote.
Source: Science World Report
May 24, 2016
In the novel, "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,” the historian warns that Artificial Intelligence will lead to a future class of useless humans.
Source: The National Interest
May 23, 2016
by Paul Richard Huard
"I think Barack Obama is skeptical of the utility of grand strategy. Nevertheless, he has continued to adhere to what seems to be the underlying grand strategy that the United States has followed internationally since the end of the Cold War."
Source: Time Magazine
May 23, 2016
Pulitzer-Prize-winner Gilbert King discusses what happened to the 4 blacks accused of rape in 1949, the subject of his 2013 book and soon-to-be movie.
Source: NYT
May 22, 2016
Mr. Garton Ash’s book “Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World” offers his thoughts on activism, limits and defying threats.
Source: The Washington Times
May 22, 2016
Luick-Thrams received his Ph.D. in modern European history in Berlin. Since then he has written or edited 15 books about Midwest cultural history and launched the TRACES Center for History and Culture, a nonprofit that documents Iowa’s connections to Nazi Germany.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
May 22, 2016
British historian and feminist Catherine Hall announced Sunday that she will withdraw her acceptance of an award allocated by Tel Aviv University for political reasons.
Source: Press Release — UC Santa Cruz
May 20, 2016
The website, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, will begin featuring data about the second voyage many slaves took to their final destination.
Source: The Times Higher Education
May 19, 2016
"Sanders’ campaign against economic inequality has a long antecedent in the history of American democratic radicalism, in the abolition, labour and feminist movements."
Source: NYT
May 18, 2016
His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong.
Source: NYT
May 18, 2016
German-born and a longtime professor at Columbia University, Mr. Stern identified themes and intellectual currents that lead to Germany's drift toward totalitarianism.
Source: The Gates Notes
May 17, 2016
He got his wife to read it so they could talk about it.
Source: New Haven Independent
May 17, 2016
“A convenient way to sidestep history.”
Source: AHA
May 17, 2016
by Mary Louise Roberts
An article in the AHA’s Perspectives is drawing attention to the problem.
Source: NYT
May 16, 2016
As the director of the Center for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, Dr. Willerslev uses ancient DNA to reconstruct the past 50,000 years of human history.
