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: UVA Today
Oct 16, 2015
The new center will deepen its engagement in this broadening field and will expand research opportunities for students, faculty and other scholars. The opening of the new John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History was celebrated Friday with a public opening ceremony.
Source: The State Journal-Register
Oct 16, 2015
Eileen Mackevich, named director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in 2010, has resigned after the "governor suggested he wanted to go in a different direction."
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2015
by Craig Shirley, Kiron K. Skinner, Paul Kengor and Steven F. Hayward
They say it presents a flawed and outdated portrait of the president and is thinly sourced.
Source: NYT
Oct 16, 2015
Neil MacGregor will leave his post in Britain to help shape one of Germany’s most audacious cultural projects, the Humboldt Forum.
Oct 16, 2015
by HNN Editor
A (brief) interview with S.C. Gwynn.
Source: The Guardian
Oct 15, 2015
The Yale historian says he’s not worried. He’s got the truth on his side.
Source: Moyers & Company
Oct 15, 2015
by Bernard A. Weisberger
Bernie Weisberger imagines how Bernie Sanders might have answered the big question hanging over him at the Democratic debate.
Source: J Weekly
Oct 15, 2015
A Jewish weekly in San Francisco claims historians are treated differently if they side with Israel in the BDS controversy
Source: Chicagoist
Oct 15, 2015
"We asked Chicago to give us an assignment, and we are thrilled to present Chicago Authored, an exhibition that epitomizes the Museum's mission to share Chicago's stories," said Chicago History Museum President Gary T. Johnson.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 14, 2015
by Robert Zaretsky
He wonders if grad schools are to blame for their own problems.
Source: NYT
Oct 14, 2015
Ms. Baxandall was an author of “America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present,” a key text for students of American labor history and gender studies.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Oct 14, 2015
David Roediger, president of the American Studies Association, sent an email to members apologizing for a press release that suggested he and the ASA back Obama’s police reforms
Source: Salon
Oct 14, 2015
In his new book about the 1990s he says Bill Clinton was a transformational figure like Reagan
Source: UCLA Newsroom
Oct 13, 2015
C-SPAN recently aired a recording of UCLA history professor Joan Waugh’s annual lecture on the history of baseball in the late 1800s
Source: Network of Concerned Historians
Oct 11, 2015
A long campaign of harassament and intimidation was waged against him, including threats and defamatory articles in newspapers and on news sites.
Source: Al-Fanar Media
Oct 9, 2015
Mosul Eye is considered one of most accurate chronicles of life under Islamic State rule. Its author remains unidentified.
Source: Princeton University
Oct 9, 2015
With his Princeton colleague Thomas Kuhn, he gave impetus to the founding of the history and philosophy of science as an academic discipline.
Oct 9, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week: The Kissinger controversy at the New York Times, among other subjects.
Source: NC State University
Oct 8, 2015
It’s a story pulled from today’s headlines: Black voters turn out on election day only to learn that their names have been stricken from the voter rolls.
But this one has a happy ending.
Source: NYT
Oct 8, 2015
The historian, Stephan Templ, 54, was co-author of a book in 2001, “Our Vienna,” which documented hundreds of properties seized under the Nazis that were never returned to Jewish owners or their heirs after World War II.
