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: Huffington Post
Nov 12, 2015
Dan Carlin has created a one-man podcasting empire by making the past as entertaining as a blockbuster.
Source: Circulated Email
Nov 10, 2015
by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Patrick Timmons
He joined a political scientist in circulating an email against the plan, which goes into effect in 2016
Source: Time Magazine
Nov 10, 2015
Studying the classics can teach us the importance of looking at problems from both sides, she says in an interview with Time Magazine.
Nov 10, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... Ruth Bader Ginsburg, London fog, Mr. Putin, FDR, and the Salem witches.
Source: Tropics of Meta
Nov 9, 2015
He was the executive director of the Oral History Association.
Source: NYT
Nov 9, 2015
Meacham is toughest on Bush for insisting in 1987 that he had been “not in the loop” on the Reagan administration’s arms-for-hostages. Bush lied, says Meacham.
Source: NYT
Nov 8, 2015
In an interview he says that Xi would like to be thought of as an emperor, but doesn’t show the self-restraint of emperors.
Source: The Financial Times
Nov 6, 2015
Celebrated writer challenged conventional narrative of Nazi rule
Source: Duke Today
Nov 6, 2015
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust opened the Centennial Symposium honoring John Hope Franklin by praising the legacy he left for activists and scholars and for research “that rescued us from bad history.”
Nov 6, 2015
by Lee Wright
The first History Camp outside of New England draws professors from colleges across Iowa.
Source: Matthew Pinsker’s blog at Dickinson College
Nov 5, 2015
by Stephanie Kugler
Her students concluded he was wrong.
Source: Mexico News Daily
Nov 5, 2015
Enrique Krauze among those worried about Trump's "alarming statements."
Source: Salon
Nov 5, 2015
In an interview in Salon, Rauchway says he’s a little surprised that we’re talking about the gold standard in 2015
Source: The Concord Review
Nov 4, 2015
Will Fitzhugh, the editor of The Concord Review, says few high school students these days ever get the experience of writing a term paper.
Source: Mosaic
Nov 4, 2015
by Walter Laqueur
The Yale historian’s much-lauded new book promises a revolutionary view of the Holocaust. But it misleads more than it enlightens.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 3, 2015
by Anne McClanan
Anne McClanan discusses the pedagogical utility of incorporating gaming into art history and museum studies.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
Nov 3, 2015
by Andrew Bacevich
He argues that by not doing it, historians have let a false political narrative take hold among the general public.
Source: YouTube
Nov 2, 2015
The subject: What FDR Knew About Corporate Education Reform
Source: The Charlotte Observer
Nov 2, 2015
by Glenda Gilmore
She won’t address her previous animosity toward gays.
Source: Patheos
Nov 2, 2015
by Warren Throckmorton
It had been pulled from publication by HarperCollins.
