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: The Guardian
Sep 26, 2015
The firebrand historian on the ‘inconsequential quibbles’ of the left, our culture of Correct Politicalness and and why Henry Kissinger is misunderstood
Source: The Root
Sep 26, 2015
Lynne Pierce, who is white, used the term during a history class last week at Heritage High School in Newport News, Va.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 25, 2015
Art historian Hartwig Fischer to take charge at the London musuem – second-most visited in the world after the Louvre in Paris and most popular visitor attraction in Britain
Source: Feed Your Need to Read
Sep 25, 2015
"The long effort to wipe out books of this kind has been pretty successful."
Source: The Leaf-Chronicle
Sep 24, 2015
The book is a collaboration between historian Antonio Thompson and his wife, a biologist.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 24, 2015
by Jessica Meyer
But by focusing on select unusual cases she silences women, says a critic, who do not fit a narrative of exceptional effort.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
Sep 24, 2015
by Scott Porch
His latest work is a collection of significant Revolutionary War pamphlets put out by the Library of America.
Sep 23, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... Books about Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and a book about female friendship, another about ancestors, and still another about Detroit.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 22, 2015
Twitter encouraged active learning. It allowed students to comment on material and ask questions in real time.
Source: Pinsker Blog
Sep 21, 2015
by Matthew Pinsker
Critics have argued that in a recent NYT op ed Wilentz glossed over the pro-slavery dimensions of the 1787 Constitution. His response?
Source: Humanities Indicators
Sep 21, 2015
by Robert Townsend
Another finding: On average, recent humanities PhDs who relied primarily on personal savings or income take more than a year longer to earn their degrees—almost a year-and-a-half longer than graduates who relied on fellowships and assistantships.
Source: Press Release -- David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
Sep 21, 2015
The scholars from around the world have signed a letter urging Austria's leaders to cancel the jail sentence imposed on a Jewish historian who omitted a relative's name in an application for the return of property confiscated by the Nazis..
Source: The Times of Israel
Sep 19, 2015
According to Prof. Timothy Snyder, the struggle to feed populations may ‘encourage new variations on Hitler’s ideas’
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 18, 2015
by Alan Singer
Wilentz took to the NYT to argue that Bernie Sanders is wrong about the racist roots of America.
Source: Times Literary Supplement
Sep 17, 2015
by Jonathan C. Clark
Who did? The Marquis de Lafayette, with whom Paine boarded for a time.
Source: NYT
Sep 17, 2015
For Professor Schorske, a revered teacher at Princeton, the modern cultural age began in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
Source: AP
Sep 17, 2015
ASU officials confirmed Thursday that Dr. Matthew Whitaker had been relieved of all duties.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sep 17, 2015
First-time doctoral enrollment in history, English, and other arts-and-humanities disciplines fell 0.5 percent from 2013 to 2014.
Source: The Boston Globe
Sep 15, 2015
Thomas Putnam, the director of the John F. Kennedy Library has resigned.
Sep 15, 2015
Kevin Butterfield was chosen to be on the show out of over 100,000 people who competed in an online test.
