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: Daily Bruin
Mar 9, 2016
The 2011 Fukushima disaster prompted Katsuya Hirano, a history professor, to investigate what he thinks is purposeful coordination between the government, major media outlets and energy companies to profit from nuclear energy despite the risks.
Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Mar 9, 2016
by Fawaz A. Gerges
He warns it poses a serious ongoing threat to the West.
Source: Imperial & Global Forum
Mar 8, 2016
by Gil Shohat
It wasn't Howard Zinn who came up with the concept of people's history. It was these folks: Marxists.
Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Mar 8, 2016
The celebrated author of books about Indian-white relations says he’s returning to an old love.
Source: Duke Today
Mar 7, 2016
“His scholarship helped illuminate the history of Duke University from its founding to the present, while his books on the American South informed a generation of American historians."
Mar 6, 2016
by Omer Bartov
Timothy Synder’s Black Earth collapses under the sheer weight of his ambitions.
Source: The Daily Beast
Mar 4, 2016
by Mitchell Yockelson
The book is by Mitchell Yockelson, an archivist at the National Archives.
Source: FOX 8
Mar 4, 2016
Bart D. Ehrman’s latest book is “Jesus Before the Gospels."
Source: Omaha World-Herald
Mar 3, 2016
Barry Jurgensen is making the journey both to honor the two women and to raise awareness about modern-day slavery, in the form of sex trafficking.
Source: TomDispatch
Mar 3, 2016
by Tom Engelhardt
This is outrageous says TomDispatch historian Tom Engelhardt.
Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Mar 2, 2016
by Paula S. Fass
"I am proposing that our presidential candidates consider two years of required national service for all young Americans between 18 and 21 years of age."
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Mar 2, 2016
Students and other members of the UCLA community gather on the Westwood campus to protest the university's handling of sexual harassment complaints made against history professor Gabriel Piterberg.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Mar 1, 2016
The list includes Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad.
Source: NYT
Mar 1, 2016
His death has revived the questions he posed.
Source: Breitbart
Feb 28, 2016
Writing in the Sunday Times (of London) today, Thatcherite professor and Mitt Romney backer Niall Ferguson has claimed that the populism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump needs to be “stamped” on.
Source: Reuters
Feb 27, 2016
Presidential candidate Donald Trump admires the late Douglas MacArthur and George Patton, but military historians and retired generals say Trump has an inflated view of the two military men and especially their relevance to an era of modern warfare.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Feb 25, 2016
“This is not about retribution and anger, it’s about atonement; it’s about the building of bridges across lines of moral justice,” said Sir Hilary Beckles, a distinguished historian from Barbados who made the case for reparations during a talk at Harvard Law School this week.
Source: Gawker
Feb 25, 2016
Jim Downs's book exists to highlight the nuance, the richness, and even the messiness of people’s lives by offering an alternate history of gay life in the ‘70s.
Source: The Harvard Crimson
Feb 25, 2016
Members of the History Department remain divided over the absence of a “Study of the Past” requirement in the General Education Review Committee’s final report released in January.
Source: NYT
Feb 24, 2016
A retired faculty member of the University of Michigan, Professor Eisenstein was renowned for “The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe,” first published in 1979.
