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: Newsweek
Jan 9, 2015
The University of Michigan's Christiane Gruber says "The Koran does not prohibit figural imagery."
Source: Weekly Standard
Jan 9, 2015
by Ron Radosh
The young radicals of the 1960s and ’70s received their Ph.D.s and began their “long march through the institutions.” They now dominate the profession.
Source: Fox News
Jan 7, 2015
Lacy Ward says he was fired because he wanted to attract all Americans to visit the place where 4 North Carolina students began the sit-in movement in Greensboro.
Source: Stanford
Jan 7, 2015
A leading post-World War II historian, Stanford Professor Carl Degler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking 1972 book on slavery and race relations.
Source: The Christian Post
Jan 7, 2015
Charles Angeletti, who teaches at Metropolitan State University of Denver, says that he wasn’t trying to indoctrinate students — just provoke fresh thinking.
Source: NYT
Jan 7, 2015
Professor Converse, in “The American Voter,” concluded with three co-authors in 1960 that most voters were remarkably uninformed and based their preferences largely on party affiliation.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 6, 2015
Appelbaum is a social and cultural historian with a Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University, and joins The Atlantic from Harvard where he’s been a lecturer on history and literature.
Source: Legal Insurrection
Jan 6, 2015
by Jeffrey Herf
"University of Maryland Professor Jeffrey Herf helped lead the battle to defeat anti-Israel resolutions at the American Historical Association"
Jan 6, 2015
Quotes that have appeared in media and blogger accounts.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 6, 2015
Historians have an obligation to help students and society at large understand the context from which the recent protests emerged.
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal
Jan 5, 2015
"When women were brought to a comfort station (Ianjo), the Army must have recognized its criminality as they examined women who were going into the station."
Source: NYT
Jan 5, 2015
Dr. Bercovitch argued that the Puritans did not see New England as an extension of European societies but as something new and exceptional.
Jan 4, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
At the annual Business Meeting the members voted overwhelmingly not to suspend the rules to allow debate on two resolutions that had been submitted after the requisite deadline.
Source: Press Release -- Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
Jan 4, 2015
With a substantial appropriation from Congress, the Pentagon has launched a self-serving multi-year commemoration of the war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. A movement is growing of those who were active against the war, as well as of friends who came after, to insure the Pentagon’s misleading version of Vietnam is effectively challenged.
Jan 4, 2015
by Alliance for Academic Freedom
The resolutions, presented at the Business Meeting of the American Historical Association, are biased and needlessly divisive.
Jan 4, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
Here's what happened on Day 3.
Jan 3, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
The AHA is being petitioned to vote on two resolutions critical of Israel.
Jan 3, 2015
by Barbara Weinstein
Even when teaching a class about Brazilian history, it can help to teach by analogy--and that can mean bringing in an example from history involving Israel.
Jan 3, 2015
by Linda Gordon
The United States gives billions more to Israel than is acknowledged.
Jan 3, 2015
by Joel Beinin
Israel's offenses include the confiscation of the intellectual property of Palestinians -- and that's something historians need to debate.
