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: WSJ
Oct 8, 2015
Belarusian author and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, a longtime critic of the Soviet regime and more recently of the Russian government, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Source: The Transylvania Times
Oct 8, 2015
While the integration of white and black athletes in the 1960s and ‘70s took place with relatively few problems, the integration of cheerleading squads was more problematic.
Source: The Guardian
Oct 7, 2015
Back channels to the Soviets, the ‘girlfriend system’ and doubts about LBJ: historian Timothy Naftali paints a portrait of a President Kennedy ‘far more interesting intellectually and far less appealing personally’
Source: The Stanford Daily
Oct 7, 2015
He'll be taking a formal role at the Hoover Institution.
Source: NYT
Oct 7, 2015
The women’s history center is to open in early 2017.
Source: WaPo
Oct 7, 2015
History had been her obsession since the precocious 4-year-old read “Our Island Story,” a children’s book, in 1936.
Source: David Bruce Smith's Grateful American Foundation
Oct 6, 2015
Students from around the world competed in five categories: documentaries, exhibits, papers, performances, and websites. An interview with the director, Cathy Gorn.
Source: NY Review of Books
Oct 5, 2015
On Henry Kissinger, Zbig, the Kennedys, and more.
Source: Humanities Indicators -- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Oct 5, 2015
Students who majored in history tend to earn more than graduates from other humanities programs.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Oct 3, 2015
by Daniel Pipes
In an op ed he says the Immigration Act of 1965 was dangerous.
Source: Mother Jones
Oct 1, 2015
by Kevin Drum
"Obama Is Prone to Submitting to Males Who Act Dominantly in His Presence"
Source: NYT
Oct 1, 2015
Mr. Afanasyev, a Russian historian and former Communist loyalist, became a leading democratic politician in the late Soviet era.
Source: S-USIH
Sep 30, 2015
Judging by the number of alarmist recent articles about the decline of the humanities, it seems apparent that they are embattled. But judging by the program of the upcoming Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) conference, they have never been better.
Source: The Pittsburgh Courier
Sep 29, 2015
by Dr. Lou Martin
Lou Martin says the columnist recycled arguments from the 19th century.
Source: Notches Blog
Sep 29, 2015
by Bianca Murillo
Students could browse each other’s posts as smaller thumbnails, minimizing the need to scroll through dozens of pages.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 28, 2015
by Sharon Ullman
Should we care, she wonders.
Source: PR Newswire
Sep 28, 2015
This two-hour documentary endeavors to tell the true story of the Pilgrims, a small group of religious radicals whose determination to establish a separatist religious community planted the seeds for America's founding.
Source: The MacArthur Foundation
Sep 28, 2015
Rustow is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Department of History at Princeton University.
Source: Humanities Indicators
Sep 28, 2015
History organizations comprise almost a third of humanities non-profits with gross receipts of at least $50,000, but had only 17% of the revenues.
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 39, No. 1
Sep 28, 2015
by Jeff Kingston
Japanese government officials are concerned that Japans universities don’t come out well in international rankings and apparently believe that focusing on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) is the fastest way to catapult more universities into the top 100 world rankings.
