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 Los Angeles Times
Apr 19, 2015
Robert V. Hine, a memoirist, novelist and prolific historian of the American West wrote a highly praised chronicle of regaining his sight after 15 years of blindness.
Apr 19, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
A remarkable day featuring an unconventional address by Patty Limerick, a panel of Ferguson activists, and the passage of a resolution demanding the Redskins change their name.
Apr 18, 2015
This video features statements by three local activists in Ferguson, Missouri who joined the movement to protest police violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last summer.
Apr 18, 2015
by Patty Limerick
A cost-benefit analysis, seen from the interior.
Apr 18, 2015
by Darlene Clark Hine
In this interview, Darlene Clark Hine speaks about a subject she has long tried to forget: The painful decision the OAH made in 2000 to stand up to the racist practices of the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The controversy broke just as Professor Hine was preparing to take-over as the new president of the OAH.
Apr 18, 2015
by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
In this interview, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann speaks about the ways historians are rewriting the history of the war on drugs.
Apr 18, 2015
by Johann Neem
Johann Neem speaks about the impact of the Common Core standards on the teaching of history.
Apr 18, 2015
by Logan Sawyer
Logan Sawyer speaks about the conservative movement’s adoption of originalism.
Apr 18, 2015
by Mark Carnes
In this video clip from a workshop conducted at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Mark Carnes is training teachers who will be running games to help students understand history in their own classrooms.
Apr 18, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
The OAH is on track to demand that the Redskins change their name.
Apr 17, 2015
Historians analyze the growing gap between full professors who earn a solid middle class income and adjuncts who don't.
Apr 17, 2015
by Jonathan Zimmerman
A well-known professor, Jonathan Zimmerman is celebrated for writing more op eds than probably any other living historian. We wanted to know what the secret of his success is.
Apr 17, 2015
What scholars think now about the Church Committee and why it wasn't more effective.
Apr 17, 2015
by Jonathan Pritchett and Charles Calomiris
Jonathan Pritchett and Charles Calomiris presented a paper about the economics of slavery at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
Apr 17, 2015
by Hasia Diner
Hasia Diner discusses a major myth about immigrants — that they were the poorest of the poor. Not true, she says.
Apr 17, 2015
by Lauren Gutterman
Jeannance Freeman was convicted of murdering the two children of her lesbian lover. In this interview Ms. Gutterman breaks the taboo of gay historians who have shied away from stories that tend to reinforce stereotypes about gays.
Apr 16, 2015
by Russ Henderson
Russ Henderson notes that the Pilgrim founding fathers allowed 16 year olds to vote.
Apr 16, 2015
by Robert Poch
Robert Poch observes that the New York Times inadvertently misconstrued Arizona’s immigration fight with the Department of Justice. The Times claimed it was a modern example of nullification. It wasn’t, says Poch.
Apr 16, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
St. Louis welcomes historians!
Apr 16, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
Find out what American historians are thinking.
