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 Hankyoreh
Feb 7, 2015
Japanese government has attempted to revise sections of textbooks about the comfort women
Source: NYT
Feb 6, 2015
by Joseph Ellis
In a letter to the NYT he says it’s inevitable that Iraq will break into 3 pieces.
Source: AHA Blog
Feb 5, 2015
by Michael D. Hattem
One thing to note: There's a difference between “open access” and “public access.”
Source: The Times of Israel
Feb 4, 2015
The author of 80 books received a knighthood in 1995 ‘for services to British history’
Source: Yale Daily News
Feb 4, 2015
Students and faculty in the department pinned the uptick in enrollments on the department’s increased efforts at student outreach. However, some also suggested that this may be a reversal of what they described as a turn away from the humanities following the 2008 recession.
Source: Blog
Feb 4, 2015
by Michelle Moravec
It's to correct a bias that shows up in the English and Russian language versions of Wikipedia.
Source: Sandbox (blog)
Feb 4, 2015
by Martin Kramer
"Had you told me thirty-five years ago, when I first met him, that [Barry Rubin] would become not only 'one of the great intellectual defenders of Israel,' but an Israeli, I would have dismissed you. Nothing would have seemed so improbable.”
Source: AlterNet
Feb 3, 2015
No, America Has Never Been a Christian Country -- Why Does the Myth Persist?
Source: The Indiana Daily Student
Feb 3, 2015
Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, advocates a version of history that might revolutionize the current concept of World War I.
Source: The Nation
Feb 3, 2015
“Rights can be won, and rights can be taken away. Achievements are always vulnerable.”
Source: Boston Globe
Feb 2, 2015
by Andrew Bacevich
" It’s their fight, not ours, we are told. Yet political disarray and military incompetence evident in that country suggest a variant of 'surrender on the installment plan.' ”
Source: The Root
Feb 2, 2015
by Henry Louis Gates Jr and Julie Wolf
Franklin’s fight for civil rights took place in classrooms and courtrooms and on the street.
Source: Daily Beast
Feb 1, 2015
The persona that presides in these nine extraordinary essays is one of humility at the daunting limitations of seeking to re-create the past.
Source: Harvard Magazine
Jan 30, 2015
by Stephanie Garlock
In a new book out in March that marks the 100th anniversary of the genocide, he says the Young Turks saw massacre as a solution to the perceived, but largely imagined, threat of Armenian separatism.
Source: Press Release -- New-York Historical Society
Jan 29, 2015
Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the New-York Historical Society will present the exhibition Lincoln and the Jews, on view March 20 through June 7, 2015.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Jan 29, 2015
" It all boils down to the Industrial Revolution. That was the impetus behind this new, 19th-century desire to read about murder in journalism or in fiction."
Source: Harvard Divinity School
Jan 29, 2015
In his narrative history of Christianity, 500 to 1500, he focuses on Christianity from the bottom up.
Source: Columbia Spectator
Jan 29, 2015
Use of junior faculty reaches three-year high at the school as a result.
Source: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Jan 29, 2015
Though he's a conservative, Cole likes to cite E.P. Thompson's research!
Source: Press Release
Jan 29, 2015
Dr. Claire Strom, editor of Agricultural History, announced today that she will be ending her term as editor in December 2016.
