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 Washington Post
Jun 18, 2015
Allen Weinstein wrote a provocative book about accused Cold War spy Alger Hiss, was an early Western advocate for Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, and served as the ninth archivist of the United States.
Source: Stanford News
Jun 17, 2015
by Cuauhtémoc García-García
A century and a half after Chinese migrants toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford professors is shedding light on a key chapter of the intertwined relationship between China and the United States.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Jun 17, 2015
Her observations were made in the course of her presidential address to the Mormon History Association
Source: The Local
Jun 17, 2015
A Danish historian fined for claiming a journalist was a KGB agent at the height of the Cold War will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Source: Business Insider
Jun 17, 2015
First published in 2014, Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” is a critically acclaimed international best-seller. Harari uses his book to track the evolution of Homo sapiens from hunter-gatherers into self-empowered “gods” of the future.
Source: Haaretz
Jun 16, 2015
The Knesset member writes a Wall Street Journal piece accusing Obama of deliberately damaging U.S.-Israel ties.
Source: CBS Los Angeles
Jun 16, 2015
One of the students complains he touched her bottom and put his tongue in her mouth
Source: OAH Blog
Jun 16, 2015
The OAH’s Journal of American History addresses this question in a special June issue.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jun 16, 2015
by Jonathan Judaken
He says he ended up on Jihad Watch after giving a lecture on “Judeophobia and Islamophobia.”
Source: Huffington Post
Jun 15, 2015
by Thomas A. Foster
"My new book, Women in Early America , features 11 new essays by leading historians, all of which testify to the remarkable lives that we are still only just beginning to uncover."
Source: Democracy Now
Jun 15, 2015
"You take chapter 39 of Magna Carta, probably the most famous clause. That is, you can still find it on courthouses in the United States. You can still find it in old constitutional books. It prohibits torture."
Source: Buzzfeed
Jun 15, 2015
by Joseph Bernstein
This team of historians and data scientists is developing a “Declassification Engine” that turns documents into data and mines it for insights about the history and future of official secrecy.
Source: NYT
Jun 15, 2015
Dr. Oreskes is fast becoming one of the biggest names in climate science by using historical scholarship to take on denialists.
Source: The Boston Globe
Jun 12, 2015
“I have a Google alert for ‘drone’ because I’m obsessed with them,” says Williams. “I saw there was a mention in a Rolling Stone story about Muse, and I couldn’t believe it when I read that my research inspired their new CD.”
Source: NYT
Jun 12, 2015
Only 10 presidents have had the opportunity to nominate a librarian of Congress to oversee America’s largest trove of intellectual treasures and to serve as the chief of the sprawling research institution for the nation’s lawmakers.
Source: American Historical Association
Jun 11, 2015
The American Historical Association has joined with 21 other scholarly societies in a statement protesting proposed changes to the structure of the University of Wisconsin system that threaten to undermine tenure, shared governance, and academic freedom in Wisconsin.
Source: The College Fix
Jun 11, 2015
"Welcome to my world. I’m a history major drowning in a sea of subjectivity."
Source: London Evening Standard
Jun 11, 2015
“Thank Christ. I was a totally different person back then, that’s the thing.”
Source: The Cap Times
Jun 9, 2015
Conservative academics might be in greater jeopardy than the liberal-leaning colleagues who outnumber them if tenure is removed from Wisconsin state law, says John Sharpless, a longtime UW-Madison history professor and former Republican candidate for Congress.
Source: NYT
Jun 9, 2015
Among his many books was a recent doorstop of a book on the Kennedy assassination.
