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: Politico for detailed explanations of choices
Dec 27, 2015
Selections include: GW and Teddy Roosevelt.
Source: NYT
Dec 26, 2015
Professor Dabney, who taught at the University of Wyoming, spent more than 40 years immersed in Wilsoniana.
Dec 24, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... World War II, the Cold War, India at war. Sorry. Merry Christmas.
Source: WalesOnline
Dec 21, 2015
Research has shed new light on the impact of Herbert Mason's famous picture of St Paul's Cathedral taken during the Second World War
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Dec 21, 2015
His goal in writing "The American President" was to provide a definitive history of the rise of the United States presidency, from virtual insignificance throughout the 19th century to global powerhouse in the 20th.
Source: OAH
Dec 21, 2015
The organization says work conditions for part-time, adjunct, and contingent historians is seriously wanting.
Source: NYT
Dec 18, 2015
Park Yu-ha has been charged with defamation for a book that challenged the common understanding of “comfort women” as innocent girls taken forcibly and raped by Japanese colonizers.
Source: Orange County Register
Dec 17, 2015
Michael Ellzey, former CEO of the Orange County Great Park Corp., will take over as the director of the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
Source: Minnesota Public Radio
Dec 15, 2015
In his new book, The Work of the Dead, Laqueur examines the cultural significance of human remains and describes how burial and cremation customs have evolved over the centuries.
Source: New Europe
Dec 14, 2015
The statute commemorating the Nazi collaborator is erected by a “private group” linked to the far-right Jobbik party, but has received state and municipality funding, and has the moral support of the local Mayor, Andras Cser-Palkovics.
Source: NJJN
Dec 14, 2015
Julian E. Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University and the son of a prominent Metuchen rabbi, said his invitation to speak at a Pennsylvania synagogue was revoked over the suspicion that he didn’t hold sufficiently supportive views of Israel.
Source: NYT
Dec 14, 2015
Dr. Anderson, an expert on Southeast Asia, transformed the study of nationalism with his book “Imagined Communities” and other works.
Source: Religion and Politics
Dec 10, 2015
That’s his conclusion after a careful review of culture wars since 1800.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 10, 2015
Writers who commit themselves to only writing hopeful things are committing themselves to the ahistorical and the mythical.
Source: Drexel News Blog
Dec 9, 2015
Drexel historian Amy Slaton revealed that the stadium was named for a blatant segregationist
Source: AHA Today
Dec 8, 2015
Julian Zelizer told the group that voting rights are once again under threat.
Source: Letter to the Editor, Perspectives
Dec 7, 2015
Their claim: McGraw-Hill bought into a narrative fiction peddled by some historians.
Dec 7, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... Eric Rauchway, Glenda Gilmore, Tom Sugrue, Robin Lane Fox, Tim Whitmarsh, Dan Jones, T.J. Stiles.
Source: NPR
Dec 6, 2015
Brian Balogh and Peter Onus say “modern liberalism was not very good on race.”
Source: NYT
Dec 5, 2015
Blain Roberts and Ethan Kytle, professors at California State University, Fresno, expressed their views in an op ed in the NYT.
