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: NYT
Dec 4, 2015
It’s full of interesting anecdotes — like the one about the time she was caught by a museum guard crawling over the life-sized statue of Mary Queen of Scots to measure her face.
Source: NYT
Dec 4, 2015
The controversial book, “Out of Imperialism,” by Qin Hui, a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, has garnered considerable attention since it appeared this fall.
Source: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Dec 4, 2015
When asked what her favorite thing is about being a historian, Claire Bond Potter, who recently joined the Schlesinger Library Council, says with some mirth, “Reading other people’s mail.”
Source: AHA Perspectives
Dec 2, 2015
by Robert Townsend
You're riding the current wave if your specialty is in the history of the environment or sexuality.
Source: The Seattle Times
Dec 2, 2015
“When a society has amnesia, that’s just as bad [as when an individual does], that’s just as dire, and so I’ve said and I still believe, you rush them to an historian.”
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Dec 2, 2015
by Daniel Pipes
He disclosed the attack in an article titled, “Muslim ‘No=Go Zones’ in Europe?"
Dec 2, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
The sessions will precede what is expected to be a lively debate about Israel at the Business Meeting.
Source: NPR
Dec 1, 2015
"I'm a great fan of Roman movies. All the classics are — they might not be accurate, but they speak to me about Rome."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 1, 2015
"As a professor at Claremont McKenna College, I was grateful when student activists sent faculty members a list of campus microaggressions and acts of bias. Then I learned that my course was on that list.” — Tamara Venit Shelton
Source: Perspectives on History
Dec 1, 2015
by Alexandros K. Kyrou
"The audience, which had filled the 175-seat auditorium to standing room only, was invited to ask questions. What followed was disturbing."
Source: Ham&High
Nov 30, 2015
Bridget Galton talks to the bestselling historian about his duty to understand the past, no matter how horrific, but above all to remain objective.
Source: Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times
Nov 30, 2015
In a letter to the editor of the Financial Times he says the Roman Empire didn’t collapse because of loose border controls.
Source: Cha
Nov 30, 2015
Feminism has been removed entirely from the apart from proposed curriculum aside from a mention of the Suffragettes.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 29, 2015
Social scientists move over. Historians are rejoining the debate over presidential history.
Source: NYT
Nov 27, 2015
The list includes Sven Beckert's "Empire of Cotton" and Nicholas Stargardt's "The German War."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 25, 2015
They walked out of a faculty emergency meeting to be with students.
Source: Huffington Post
Nov 25, 2015
"They're re-learning history. When we talk about Thanksgiving -- they're wrestling with these stories that they grew up with."
Source: Huffington Post
Nov 25, 2015
He says we need to focus on preventing new addictions and using the harm-reduction approach to treat current addicts.
Source: ABC News
Nov 25, 2015
"The State Department determined that anyone who had close relatives in Germany, the Soviet Union or fascist Italy were a security threat, and even though Otto and Anne were in the Netherlands."
Source: Windy City Times
Nov 25, 2015
The story of Northwestern’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Professor Lane Fenrich.
