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 11, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week it's books about Nagasaki, the richest man who ever lived, Philip II, and the birth of modern Europe.
Source: historiansforrefugees
Aug 9, 2015
The statement was initiated by Dr. Jan Kunnas from Finland but currently working at KTH in Sweden and Dr. Viktor Pàl from Hungary but currently working at WU Wien in Austria, as a response to their frustration with the xenophobic discussion in their countries unleashed by the current influx of refugees.
Source: WaPo
Aug 7, 2015
“This is history. This is an experience that happened.”
Source: The Chronicle
Aug 7, 2015
Each new event has forced scholars to make pedagogical choices.
Source: Camera
Aug 6, 2015
The professor notes that “the problem of underestimating the role of ideology in politics remains very much with us.” It’s a problem evidenced in Adolf Hitler’s rise and simultaneous inability of “intellectuals and policymakers” to take the German dictator’s Jew-hatred seriously.
Source: WaPo
Aug 5, 2015
Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian at the Stevens Institute of Technology, created a NukeMap that allows you to visualize what the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions would look like in your hometown.
Source: Mondoweiss
Aug 5, 2015
A video has emerged with a montage of clips from an interview recorded the day after 9/11 featuring Donald and Frederick Kagan, two members of a leading neoconservative family.
Source: Financial Times
Aug 5, 2015
“History should be taught in one way to avoid division of the people. At the moment, since there are various history textbooks, there can be confusion.”
Source: Park Record
Aug 4, 2015
Schultz's interest in the turbulent times led him to write his new book "Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties."
Source: NYT
Aug 4, 2015
Mr. Conquest chronicled the Stalinist purges and the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s with original findings and gripping narratives.
Source: Deseret News
Aug 3, 2015
In an interview he says the WPA mandated racist policies.
Source: The Spectator
Aug 3, 2015
Ibn Khaldun charted the story of the world from creation, which began with ‘the minerals and progressed, in an ingenious, gradual manner, to plants and animals’ and onto human history. He anticipated Darwin.
Source: Politico
Aug 2, 2015
by Mark Perry
It was buried in a book on page 160.
Source: The Independent
Aug 2, 2015
Hughes has presented TV series including ITV's 'Britain's Secret Treasures' and BBC2's 'Divine Women', and is the author of bestselling books
Source: The Daily Beast
Aug 1, 2015
He claimed it was a myth that the Irish faced massive job discrimination. She showed it was true.
Source: CBS
Aug 1, 2015
On the CBS Evening News Jeremy Stern went up against Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jul 31, 2015
AHA executive director James Grossman agrees.
Jul 31, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week's books cover a lot for ground: school segregation, Putin, and Sir Thomas Browne.
Source: Haaretz
Jul 30, 2015
Dr. Dan Plesch says that the the former Nazi officers were released under pressure from the U.S., which wanted Germany on its side in the Cold War.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Jul 28, 2015
Suspect arrested this February after a nearly year-long manhunt.
