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.
Apr 28, 2015
by Marc Stein
The LGBT community is soliciting donations for the prize.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 27, 2015
by Linda K. Kerber
Now she has to figure out what to do with all her books and papers.
Source: AHA Today
Apr 27, 2015
History is in a state of crisis, losing readers and public influence, historians David Armitage of Harvard and Jo Guldi of Brown argue in their controversial book "The History Manifesto."
Source: WGN TV
Apr 27, 2015
His kids love history. He uses props to make it fun.
Source: e Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University History Department and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
Apr 24, 2015
They'll be doing this at a conference at Boston University May 2-3, 2015.
Source: Press Release
Apr 24, 2015
Click here to see the list!
Source: Harvard Gazette
Apr 23, 2015
In her new book Martha Hodes tells how (Interview)
Source: Stanford News
Apr 23, 2015
Through a study of the history of the French colonial Congo-Océan Railway, Stanford historian JP Daughton has discovered how modern humanitarianism arose from the brutality of European colonialism.
Source: The New Republic
Apr 23, 2015
As a guide to the late twentieth century culture wars, Andrew Hartman is unrivalled.
Source: New Jersey On-Line
Apr 23, 2015
50 years later Rutgers, where he was teaching at the time, is remembering the controversy
Source: SBS
Apr 23, 2015
The War Precautions Act allowed people of so-called “enemy heritage” to be arrested and placed in prison camps without trial.
Source: Cliodynamics
Apr 23, 2015
by Peter Turchin
Evolutionary biologist Peter Turchin says science can help us understand how empires rise and fall.
Source: Huff Post (UK)
Apr 23, 2015
The always humble David Starkey shouted down a human rights lawyer on the Today programme this morning by claiming: "I"m the historian here, I'm a great historian."
Source: History Today
Apr 22, 2015
by Paul Fouracre
Why exactly did Rome fall?
Source: The Times of India
Apr 21, 2015
The world has lost a top historian who unearthed the roots of Indian nationalism. Themes analysed by Bayly radically reshaped understandings of India's past — and remain deeply relevant today.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 20, 2015
Many of the undergraduates he teaches have grown up playing video games, and they’re used to interactive, audiovisually rich online environments.
Source: Pulitzer Prize
Apr 20, 2015
Elizabeth A. Fenn for "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People" and David I. Kertzer for "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe."
Source: TomDispatch
Apr 20, 2015
by Tom Engelhardt
AFRICOM is the US military's Africa Command and Turse says it's gone to war with almost no one noticing.
Source: Special to HNN
Apr 20, 2015
by Allison Jobe
Recapturing the legacy of the Socialist Party was the theme of a panel discussion on “American Socialism Reconsidered” hosted by the National Press Club in Washington DC on April 9.
Source: Special to HNN
Apr 20, 2015
by Mary Niall Mitchell
He recently died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 49.
