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 Way of Improvement Leads Home (blog)
Feb 17, 2015
by John Fea
In an article in the conservative Weekly Standard he lionized Bernard Bailyn.
Source: SCVTV
Feb 17, 2015
James Sefton teaches American military and naval history, World War II, constitutional history, and his specialty, Civil War and Reconstruction.
Source: Huffington Post
Feb 17, 2015
by Louise Mirrer
Louise Mirrer is all in favor of African-American history, LGBT history, etc., but says we need a unified story.
Source: Think Progress
Feb 17, 2015
An Oklahoma bill banning Advanced Placement U.S. History would also require schools to instruct students in a long list of ‘foundational documents,’ including the Ten Commandments, two sermons and three speeches by Ronald Reagan,
Source: David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies -- Press Release
Feb 17, 2015
They're upset with Mahmoud Abbas for embracing Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his central role in the Darfur genocide.
Feb 17, 2015
by Erik Moshe
Lincoln. Lincoln. Lincoln. You'd think it was his birthday or something.
Source: The Wesleyan Argus
Feb 16, 2015
“I see a great contemporary urgency to think about capitalism, because capitalism basically structures all of our lives today."
Source: The Weekly Standard
Feb 16, 2015
"Although Bernard Bailyn is one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world, he is not as well known as he should be."
Source: Salon
Feb 16, 2015
"I think he was the greatest politician of his age. I think he was the greatest writer of his age."
Source: JSTOR
Feb 12, 2015
Its origins date back to 1926, when a historian named Carter G. Woodson spearheaded “Negro History Week.”
Source: Smashing Interviews Magazine
Feb 12, 2015
"I remember asking both my parents and my teachers at school continuously about where we came from and what was the meaning of all this."
Source: The Phoenix, Swarthmore College
Feb 12, 2015
Students from Professor of History Allison Dorsey’s class “Black Liberation 1969” have begun to hold various events around campus as part of what Dorsey called a “takeover of Black History Month.”
Source: NYT
Feb 11, 2015
Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar who recently announced his retirement as a public affairs executive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been awarded the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
Source: Legal History Blog
Feb 10, 2015
Basch remained a feminist, both personally and professionally, throughout her life, inspiring students, colleagues, and other scholars with the acuity of her insights and analysis and the passion of her commitment.
Source: Notches blog
Feb 10, 2015
by Marc Stein
"I got involved in British gay liberation in 1970, a coincidence of several events really."
Source: The Junto
Feb 10, 2015
An Interview with the Harvard Historian on His New Book
Source: Press Release
Feb 9, 2015
by Gregory J. W. Urwin
A new white paper suggests that history departments could attract students by focusing on military history, which now features the methodologies of social, cultural, gender, economic, political, diplomatic, and institutional history.
Source: NYT
Feb 9, 2015
He won fame and headlines for his expose of UN Secretary Kurt Waldheim.
Source: Chicago Trib
Feb 8, 2015
This is the first footage ever to surface.
Source: Notches blog
Feb 7, 2015
He distinguishes between “Pre-Ellen” and “Post-Ellen” generations.
