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: You Tube
Sep 15, 2015
Watch this video and you’ll know why they keep giving him these gigs
Source: The Times of Israel
Sep 14, 2015
Chernow admits he was a little taken aback the first time he attended a rehearsal — the cast was made up almost exclusively of people of color. But he soon decided the casting was “a stroke of genius,” he said.
Source: Princeton University Press (via email)
Sep 14, 2015
by Philip T. Hoffman
Why he disagrees with Jared Diamond, and how he used a simple economic model of political costs and technological change to reach his conclusion that the key to European supremacy was their leaders' willingness to spend a fortune on war.
Sep 14, 2015
The geography professor, Shannon Lamb, killed Schmidt hours after killing his own girlfriend, police say. When police closed in Lamb shot and killed himself.
Source: Love of History
Sep 13, 2015
by Constantina Katsari
"This week it is two years since I left academia. So, I thought it is the right time to reflect on the past year and the lessons I have learned."
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly
Sep 11, 2015
America has a love-hate relationship with Teach for America.
Source: The Root
Sep 11, 2015
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps folks find out more about their ancestors.
Source: Foreign Policy
Sep 10, 2015
by John T. Kuehn
The program was set up after 9-11 to to capture the hard-won insights of the folks involved in the various aspects of the Global War on Terror.
Source: White House website
Sep 10, 2015
The President Awards the National Medals of the Arts and Humanities to Vicki Ruiz and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Sep 10, 2015
by Scott Jaschik
An interview with Harvey J. Graff, author of "Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Source: Raw Story
Sep 9, 2015
“The Bible says if you engage in homosexuality, your body will do things that penalize you. So if you can have a vaccine for AIDS, then you’re keeping your body from penalizing you. I don’t think they’ll ever find a vaccine for AIDS.”
Source: AHA Blog
Sep 9, 2015
by Seth Denbo
To encourage giving proper credit to academics doing digital history the AHA has published Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians.
Source: The Daily Beast
Sep 9, 2015
The famous AP photo of a young girl running naked down the street shook the nation. It was published in June 1972. It was not until March 29, 1973, that the last American troops departed Vietnam, and not until April 29, 1975 that we fled the country.
Source: WaPo
Sep 8, 2015
by Alyssa Rosenberg
He even knows what the last words of the documentary will be. “They would head, as the poet Langston Hughes wrote, ‘towards the warmth of other suns.’ ” In all the time Burns has been chronicling American history, that dream hasn’t been accomplished. But the journey continues.
Source: Indian Country
Sep 8, 2015
They say it “perpetuates lies about Native Americans."
Source: American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Sep 8, 2015
59% reported another history subject as their secondary field!
Sep 8, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week … voting rights, Russia, the Holocaust, and Asian-American history.
Source: bangordailynews.com
Sep 7, 2015
by Howard Segal
He asks: Does she know history?
Sep 7, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
This year the group sponsoring the resolution is coming prepared, correcting last year's mistake, when they failed to give sufficient advance notice.
Sep 7, 2015
"Not all of us will be mourning 9/11 victims and their families this Friday on the 14th anniversary of the attacks. Hundreds of college kids across the country will instead be taught to sympathize with the terrorists." -- Paul Sperry
