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: Real Clear Books
Jan 6, 2016
“The 'Age of Clinton' has continued, not only because Bill and Hillary Clinton have continued to dominate headlines, but because of many of the defining phenomena of the times persist."
Source: The Jewish Week
Jan 6, 2016
by Stephen M. Flatow
A man whose daughter was killed by Palestinian terrorists says historians targeting Israel are guilty of misdirected anger.
Jan 6, 2016
by James Warren
Americans' apathy toward gun control exemplifies Rick Shenkman's thesis about our reliance on Stone-Age instincts in today's world.
Source: Slate
Jan 6, 2016
A careful study of recent popular history books reveals a genre dominated by generals, presidents—and male authors.
Jan 5, 2016
by Historians Against the War (HAW)
The Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) has been running ads sniping at a proposed resolution critical of Israel that will be considered by the American Historical Association this weekend. Here's our response.
Source: Flat Hill
Jan 4, 2016
by AllenJayM
The loss experienced by the history discipline was exceptional.
Jan 4, 2016
by Erik Moshe
This week it's a real grab bag, everything from GW and Martha to men's beards and menswear.
Jan 3, 2016
by Rick Shenkman
What happened at the AHA this year!
Jan 3, 2016
by Jeffrey Herf
Historians should acknowledge the limits of our ability to reach a judgment about the facts in dispute when they vote at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Jan 2, 2016
by Rafael Medoff
The reality is that security measures are required to protect against terrorism.
Source: Aeon
Dec 31, 2015
The new insight is that profit motives were characteristic of American slavery.
Source: NYT
Dec 30, 2015
The author of a new book on Prohibition throws a cold splash on our nostalgia for the period.
Source: The New Yorker
Dec 30, 2015
The first German edition since 1945 is set to appear in January.
Source: NYT
Dec 30, 2015
Professor Weinstein’s work, with its emphasis on the power of religious thought in a supposedly secular age, opened up new avenues in research on the Renaissance.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 30, 2015
Hamilton’s vision for America won out over Jefferson’s.
Source: flowing data.com
Dec 30, 2015
In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond and Stamen Design, American Panorama combines United States history, geographic mapping, and individual narratives to create a visual atlas of history.
Source: Jewish Review of Books
Dec 30, 2015
by Walter Laqueur
Among Israeli intellectuals of his generation, Gershom Scholem had by far the greatest impact both at home and abroad.
Source: Johns Hopkins website
Dec 29, 2015
"Another sad loss but at a grand old age: Sidney Mintz whose anthropological history of sugar Sweetness and Power is still a classic." -- Simon Schama
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Dec 29, 2015
“The result was a massive but largely ignored intelligence failure.” — Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA’s former chief historian.
Source: Portside
Dec 28, 2015
Du Bois’s general strike thesis continues to cast a long shadow over contemporary historiography and black intellectuals alike.
