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.
Aug 25, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... books about moral panics, language, big ideas in history, and the fascinating history of autism.
Source: Salon
Aug 24, 2015
Burns also disappointed Confederate flag apologists, listing the Civil War's 3 causes as "slavery, slavery, slavery"
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Aug 24, 2015
by Richard Utz
The future of the field, says Richard Utz, may depend on reconnecting it to the powerful fascination among our students and the general public.
Source: Stanford News
Aug 24, 2015
Through research into the first historians of medieval Europe, Professor Paula Findlen discovers that an interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed.
Source: The Sunday Times
Aug 23, 2015
Barry Keane, the author of Massacre in West Cork, wanted to obtain the names of informants who worked against Irish secret societies between 1892 and 1910.
Source: Jacobin
Aug 23, 2015
In this fascinating interview he discusses Karl Rove, the myth of states’ rights, and other topics.
Source: Education Week
Aug 21, 2015
by Liana Heitin
The point? Both the 2014 and 2015 documents are significantly better than what came before them.
Source: OAH
Aug 21, 2015
Organization of American Historians asks its members to contact their representatives.
Source: Phoenix New Times
Aug 19, 2015
Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio released a slide-by-slide comparison of a Powerpoint-style presentation that Whitaker prepared for the training, which DiCiccio says the history professor plagiarized from a Chicago Police Department cultural-training program.
Source: University of Washington
Aug 17, 2015
"In the 1960s I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the flower power epicenter, and while I was never a hippie, one of my best friends from high school spent 13 years living a countercultural life. So the topic always interested me."
Source: Weekly Standard
Aug 17, 2015
by Joseph Bottum
His distinguishing characteristic was his unexpected seriousness—the moral cast of his mind that both kept him a precise historian and directed him to oppose communism.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Aug 16, 2015
That's the new show by the creative force behind The Wire. The historians are: Thomas Sugrue of New York University and Craig Steven Wilder of MIT.
Source: Daily Express
Aug 15, 2015
James Holland has hit back at moves by Moscow to ban his books because they do not place enough emphasis on the role played by the Soviet Union in winning the Second World War.
Source: NYT
Aug 13, 2015
The question is settled: What he'd do after doing the thing for which he became celebrated.
Source: The Guardian
Aug 12, 2015
Project commemorating the killing of Jews reveals tensions between Soviet and modern Ukrainian historical narrative
Source: NPR
Aug 12, 2015
Michael Iliakis earned a PhD in ancient history 4 years ago. This is what his life is like.
Source: Civil War Memory
Aug 12, 2015
by Kevin Levin
An ordained minister, "Ralph's courageous involvement in the civil rights movement in the early 1960's was the pivotal experience that shaped his professional work." (From his obit.)
Source: NY Review of Books
Aug 11, 2015
Despite his famous fight with Gore Vidal, he was no homophobe.
Source: Amherst Bulletin
Aug 11, 2015
Appy, a professor of modern U.S. history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, argues in his most recent book, "American Reckoning," that the nation has never fully addressed the implications of the Vietnam War.
Source: TomDispatch
Aug 11, 2015
by Tom Engelhardt
He asks the question: What It Means When You Kill People On the Other Side of the Planet and No One Notices
