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: NYT
Jan 28, 2015
Cohen — derided as “Putin’s American toady” — is firing back at critics.
Source: Mondoweiss
Jan 28, 2015
In death, as in life, Joan Peters draws the fire of leftists.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Jan 28, 2015
Atkinson won the Victorian Prize for Literature for the magisterial third volume of The Europeans in Australia. He said he was very relieved to have finished the final instalment, which covers the period from the 1870s to the aftermath of World War I.
Source: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Jan 27, 2015
The New Left historians’ withering critiques of liberalism have proven enormously influential. But do they hold up in our more conservative age?
Source: World Religion News
Jan 26, 2015
"The political situation today is so dismal that historical periods when Jews and Muslims got along much better than they do today seem irrelevant."
Source: The Durham News
Jan 26, 2015
Duke University will hold events during the next year paying tribute to preeminent historian John Hope Franklin, who would have turned 100 years old this January.
Source: NYT
Jan 26, 2015
Professor Borg was among a group of scholars, known as the Jesus Seminar, who set out to discern which of Jesus’ acts and utterances could be confirmed as historically true, and which were merely myths.
Source: The Jewish Daily Forward
Jan 25, 2015
“The behavior over the last few days created the impression of a cynical political move, and it could hurt our attempts to act against Iran.”
Source: Politico
Jan 25, 2015
by Col. Ty Seidule
And Congress needs to, Col. Ty Seidule says.
Source: NYT
Jan 23, 2015
Hofstadter never abandoned his liberal views. But his fear of the mob qualified him as a conservative by temperament.
Jan 23, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week: Heather Cox Richardson, Richard Bernstein, and Jan Jarboe Russell.
Source: Out History
Jan 23, 2015
Jonathan Ned Katz, co-director of OutHistory.org, the website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, analyses the document, which provides insights into gay life in the 1920s and 1930s.
Source: Historia
Jan 23, 2015
by Megan Kate Nelson
This latest fracas brings up interesting questions about the uses (and misuses) of evidence in Civil War history, and about what actually constitutes “evidence” — and who gets to analyze it.
Source: Commentary
Jan 20, 2015
by Martin Kramer
He passed away in November 2014, a dozen years after a stroke silenced his pen.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Jan 20, 2015
In England, Faust delivered the prestigious Sir Robert Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge’s historic Senate House.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Jan 20, 2015
by Daniel Pipes
But he insists there are places where police in Europe allow Muslims to get away with crime
Source: AHA
Jan 20, 2015
by American Historical Association
A new law passed with good intentions could force department chairs at Virginia universities to fill out an 18 page form!
Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Jan 20, 2015
Timothy Tackett, now history professor emeritus at UC Irvine, was in Watsonville helping his mother Jean pack up things for a move to Washington state when he looked in the bottom of a trunk.
Source: The Bangor Daily News
Jan 20, 2015
Professor Emerson Baker believes an Indian attack was a key trigger for the Salem, Massachusetts, witch hunts.
Source: Salon
Jan 20, 2015
Right-wing leader Harry Jaffa received glowing eulogies last week. But his vile homophobia must also be remembered.
