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.
May 16, 2016
by Elizabeth M. Nielsen
The meeting, held at Oregon State University, featured scholars David Greenberg, Frederik Logevall, Christiopher Nichols, David Milne, Mary Dudziak, and others.
Source: The Daily Beast
May 14, 2016
Honest Abe shared a bed with the same man for four years, but the times were different and so was the nature of the love shared between people of the same sex.
Source: The Globe and Mail
May 13, 2016
Laurie Bertram led a team of 12 students into the archives to unearth the truth about Toronto’s taboo past.
Source: The Stanford Daily
May 13, 2016
He’s an expert on non-Western intellectual history.
Source: NYT
May 13, 2016
The PM is fascinated by Caro’s biography of Robert Moses. Caro gave him a tour through Moses’s New York.
Source: The Washington Post
May 12, 2016
He’s still trying to figure out 2016.
Source: Slate
May 11, 2016
"The Japanese ignore everything before Hiroshima and the Americans ignore everything after Nagasaki."
Source: Huffington Post
May 11, 2016
The story of David Turk and he is the official historian of the United States Marshals Service.
Source: The Nation
May 10, 2016
by Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin is appalled.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
May 8, 2016
by Max Boot
"Trump is an ignorant demagogue who traffics in racist and misogynistic slurs and crazy conspiracy theories."
Source: Viking
May 7, 2016
He talks about his new book and why he thinks Benedict Arnold has gotten a bum rap.
Source: The Clarion Ledger
May 6, 2016
More than 500 people have signed a Change.org petition in support of a William Carey University religion and history professor who was fired this week, despite his tenured status.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 6, 2016
The first woman president of Harvard says the move will enhance "principles of non-discrimination."
Source: In These Times
May 5, 2016
In an interview he explains why he’s an anti-Zionist.
Source: The Museum Association of New York
May 5, 2016
It’s Devin Lander, the executive director of the Museum Association of New York.
Source: Basic Books
May 5, 2016
by Steve Fraser
In a wide-ranging interview he talks about his new book, Limousine Liberal, and the origins of Trumpian populism.
Source: NY Review of Books
May 3, 2016
by Timothy Snyder
"The preemptive liquidation of the museum is nothing less than a violent blow to the world’s cultural heritage."
Source: Bradley Foundation press release
May 3, 2016
His books include Napoleon: A Life; Masters and Commanders: How Churchill, Roosevelt, Alanbrooke and Marshall Won the War in the West; and A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900.
Source: NYT
May 3, 2016
Professor Aaron was also the founding president of the Library of America, which has published 279 classic works.
Source: Foreign Policy
May 2, 2016
Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.
