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: WRAL
May 12, 2015
His problem is that 1776 is celebrated as our birth, but we weren’t a real nation then.
Source: NYT
May 12, 2015
Mr. Gay, a refugee from Nazi Germany, devoted his long career to exploring the social history of ideas, a quest that took him far afield from his original area of specialization, Voltaire and the Enlightenment.
Source: Society of American Historians
May 11, 2015
The Society of American Historians has recognized the writings of David Levering Lewis, Danielle Allen, Jacinda Townsend, and Justin Leroy.
Source: Harvard Gazette
May 11, 2015
Departing University Librarian embraced and defended the digital, while still savoring the printed
Source: ABC News
May 7, 2015
Senate historian Donald Ritchie is stepping down from his "front-row seat to the best show in town."
Source: H-Net
May 6, 2015
"The undersigned scholars of Japanese studies express our unity with the many courageous historians in Japan seeking an accurate and just history of World War II ."
Source: Salon
May 6, 2015
It was the year women got the right to vote and also the year we had the first woman president
Source: The Times-Picayune
May 5, 2015
Thomas Aiello says the law allowing such verdicts was crafted during the Jim Crow era.
Source: HAARETZ
May 5, 2015
The book summarizes the entire history of Homo sapiens since man started talking some 70,000 years ago.
May 5, 2015
He's voting Tory, still mad at Krugman, wonders what liberals would say if Bush had droned like Obama.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 5, 2015
In an interview historian Ashley M. Howard says we demonize blacks who turn violent but still lionize white labor activists from the 19th century who used violence.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 4, 2015
In an interview Jennifer Guiliano, author of "Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America," says "there lingers this intense community obsession."
May 4, 2015
by HNN Editor
More than 1,100 readers posted comments on the article.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
May 2, 2015
by Joseph A. Palermo
Joseph Palermo says "it will leave our freshmen and sophomores little understanding of how American institutions have changed through time."
Source: Breitbart
May 2, 2015
Tufts University History professor Peniel Joseph declared that President Obama “has a lot of soul-searching to do” because he won’t allow Jesse Jackson into the White House.
Source: NY Review of Books
Apr 30, 2015
by Garry Wills
And that's a good thing.
Source: Emory
Apr 30, 2015
Emory University historian Deborah Lipstadt's acclaimed 2005 book, "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier," which chronicles her exoneration by a British court in a sensational libel trial, is being made into a feature film.
Apr 30, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week we have reviews of books about the Japanese internment in World War II, Vikings, and the Ottoman Empire.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 30, 2015
His heirs want to be paid when historians quote him.
Apr 29, 2015
by HNN Editor
Historians go on record against the Washington Redskins.
