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 Mag
Dec 18, 2014
by Wil S. Hylton
The author of "Unbroken" and "Seabiscuit" is profiled in a long New York Times Magazine profile.
Source: The Root
Dec 17, 2014
Just as the U.S. has announced a resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba, there will now be a way for Americans to learn more about the history of Afro-Cubans and other descendants of Africa across the Caribbean and Latin America.
Source: The National Interest
Dec 16, 2014
The Council on Foreign Relations named Gary J. Bass’s The Blood Telegram the best book on international relations of 2014.
Dec 15, 2014
by Pearl Duncan
Pearl Duncan discloses how a search of DNA records surprised her.
Source: American Historical Association's Perspectives
Dec 15, 2014
by Jim Grossman
The petition missed the deadline set for the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Someone at the Business Meeting of the AHA could still put the issue on the agenda.
Source: NY Review of Books
Dec 14, 2014
by Martin Filler
Rosemarie Haag Bletter discovers blue faux marbre, high above gilded column capitals and bosses.
Source: The National Post
Dec 12, 2014
Then she discovered Wonder Woman offered fresh insights to feminism.
Source: Baptist Press
Dec 11, 2014
"Christianity is a religion that was born in Africa and Asia and, in our lifetimes, has decided to go home.” — Baylor University’s Philip Jenkins.
Source: NYT
Dec 10, 2014
Mr. Marks wrote five books that chronicled kosher menus through the centuries and examined the role of food in the establishment and growth of cultural traditions.
Source: Stars and Stripes
Dec 9, 2014
Takeo Iguchi, a professor emeritus at Shobi University, has devoted his research to reversing a prevalent view in Japan that the embassy was to blame. It was the military.
Source: NYT
Dec 9, 2014
Professor Flores, who was the director of Latino studies and a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, wrote more than a dozen books and edited many collections of essays.
Source: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Dec 8, 2014
The three-time NYT bestselling author takes on Slate’s Jacob Weisberg.
Source: FOX News
Dec 8, 2014
Historian Charles Angeletti says he uses the pledge to get students thinking.
Source: Press Release
Dec 8, 2014
Großväterland will portray war stories from the last living eyewitnesses.
Source: Press Release
Dec 5, 2014
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton says a key step has been to establish a commission.
Source: Sandbox (blog)
Dec 4, 2014
by Martin Kramer
“In the past, whenever the boycott demand percolated in the ranks, cooler heads prevailed. The problem is that the cooler heads are growing grey and losing authority."
Source: AHA Today
Dec 3, 2014
AHA is concerned about loosening of requirements for social studies.
Source: Times Picayune
Dec 3, 2014
Michael Mizell-Nelson was a historian so steeped in New Orleans culture that he spent 12 years researching the origin and name of po-boy sandwiches.
Source: The American Historian (OAH)
Dec 3, 2014
by John McMillian
Historian John McMillian says we need to do something to shorten the time it takes to get a PhD. Maybe we should drop the foreign language requirement for Americanists.
Source: Wilson Quarterly
Dec 3, 2014
by Rebecca White
“He would say things like, ‘What are you going to say when your kid asks, Daddy, where were you during the Great War?’ ”
