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: edwired
Jan 19, 2015
by Mills Kelly
George Mason University's Mills Kelly: "It’s not that difficult to imagine a circumstance ten years hence in which we have lost a big chunk of that general education revenue to our area community colleges."
Source: Simon & Schuster
Jan 18, 2015
It's about the Wright Brothers. It will be published in May.
Source: Mondoweiss
Jan 17, 2015
"From Time Immemorial is an embarrassment that taints anyone who embraced it as well as those who continue to do so."
Source: Cabinet of Plagiarism
Jan 16, 2015
by "Ann Ribidoux"
Just months after he was accused of multiple counts of plagiarism, the ASU historian has received an award from the university.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan 16, 2015
by Linda Gordon
In a column in the Chronicle she lays out the argument she made at the AHA: The BDS Movement is pressuring Israel in desirable ways.
Jan 16, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week: Sven Beckert, Richard Dunn, and Bartow J. Elmore.
Source: Press Release -- The Catholic Schools Textbook Project
Jan 16, 2015
Historian Kevin Starr says: "This carefully researched, beautifully written, and elegantly designed four-volume textbook series at long last gives full weight to the contribution of Roman Catholics."
Source: The Fresno Bee
Jan 15, 2015
He received a doctorate degree in history from North Texas State University in 1973, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar specializing in Latin American history.
Source: YouTube
Jan 15, 2015
The History of Capitalism Initiative is Cornell University's intellectual center for ideas, programs, research, and curriculum development on the history of American capitalism.
Source: NYT
Jan 14, 2015
The Columbia professor debunks the debunker who claimed that the Underground Railroad was largely fictional
Source: Press Release -- U.S. Navy
Jan 13, 2015
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Samuel Cox recently assumed responsibilities as the new director of the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).
Source: Press Release -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jan 13, 2015
Harold Holzer plans to retire from the Met this summer to enable him to engage more fully in his work as a historian and writer.
Source: NYT
Jan 12, 2015
Her 1984 book, “From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine,” drew accolades and also outrage by arguing that claims of a historical Palestinian homeland in Israel were invented.
Jan 12, 2015
by Van Gosse
HAW says the facts were readily available.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan 12, 2015
by Sean Wilentz
He says philistinism wrecked the magazine
Source: NYT
Jan 12, 2015
A professor and author of political histories, Dr. Jaffa traced the nation’s origins to the philosophies of Aristotle and John Locke and analyzed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the contributions of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other founders.
Source: New York Magazine
Jan 11, 2015
New York Magazine survey finds that historians are most divided about Obama’s foreign policy legacy.
Source: Greene County Daily World
Jan 10, 2015
Picked up by the news website Vox, James MacLeod's cartoon was soon featured among the cream of the crop of editorial cartoonists' responses published around the globe online and in print.
Source: NYT
Jan 10, 2015
by Neil Irwin
“Once we averted a Great Depression, we succumbed to the instinct to do less in order to sustain economic growth.”
Source: Orange County Register
Jan 9, 2015
The bitter conflict between Timothy Naftali, federal director of the Nixon Library & Museum from 2007 to 2011, and the private Nixon Foundation lingers over the Yorba Linda institution, and resolving that friction is a key goal for the incoming director.
