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: Yale Daily News
Oct 30, 2014
History professors interviewed said vacancies in their department were the consequence of decreased hiring after the 2008 recession.
Source: The Freedom From Religion Foundation
Oct 29, 2014
"A teacher should be free to express opinions, however ill-informed, so long as he or she makes it clear that they are no more than his opinions. He should not be free to penalize students who fail to parrot his opinions."
Source: Wonkette
Oct 29, 2014
Mr. Wood, who was a corporal in the Marine Corps, told the paper Monday “that he did not wish for his daughter, a junior at La Plata, to learn the Islamic religion, a faith he does ‘not believe in.’”
Source: CBS DC
Oct 29, 2014
A former history and African Studies professor at historically black Delaware State University blames President Obama for undermining the education of black students.
Source: Bloomberg
Oct 28, 2014
"Ferguson’s use of ShadowStats, along with his questionable claims about Oct. 15, suggest that his reasoning starts with a conclusion -- that QE is bad -- and grabs hold of any available justification to support this conclusion."
Source: Variety
Oct 28, 2014
The 16-week course will be offered during the upcoming spring semester, officially beginning Jan. 12, providing a way for college students to earn three transferable credits, or for the lifelong learner.
Source: RedAndBlack
Oct 28, 2014
In January Foner’s latest book will be published: “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.”
Source: Front Page Magazine
Oct 28, 2014
by Andrew E. Harrod
His new book already seems out of date.
Source: TomDispatch
Oct 28, 2014
by Tom Engelhardt
Studs Terkel, who put oral history on the American map with one spectacular book after another, was a small man who had a knack for making everyone around him feel larger than life.
Source: Historians Against the War
Oct 27, 2014
Historians Against the War was among 38 organizations signing-on to a letter to Congress, opposing efforts by some members of Congress to effectively sabotage peaceful negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 27, 2014
"American history does not begin when Europeans and Africans arrive."
Source: UPI
Oct 23, 2014
"We appreciate greatly the response we've received and thank everyone who shared their thoughts with us," says filmmaker Ken Burns.
Source: Aleteia
Oct 23, 2014
In face of university's "secularist project," Father Miscamble advises go straight to the top.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Oct 23, 2014
Criticism of Harvard University is coming from an unusual quarter: postal workers.
Source: Columbia University
Oct 23, 2014
"Like any theatrical production, a lecture is not forever. You perform, and it’s gone. At some point I realized that I wanted to preserve a little bit of this.”
Source: Harvard Gazette
Oct 22, 2014
"I had the advantage of disadvantage."
Source: NYT
Oct 22, 2014
Julius Nyang’oro was the professor of record for many of the fake classes.
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 21, 2014
There has always been an unacknowledged strand of constructivism running through Kissinger’s academic writing, if not his statesmanship.
Source: Live Science
Oct 21, 2014
The paintings, poetry and accounts of cricket matches from British psychiatric patients are among some 800,000 historic documents about to go online.
Source: JSTOR Daily
Oct 21, 2014
The newly combined archive—half in New York, half in Vilnius, Lithuania—will include 10,000 rare or unique publications and plenty of primary sources: 1.5 million letters, memoirs, and photographs.
