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: The Daily Beast
Aug 5, 2014
by Scott Porch
Historian Rick Perlstein discusses the astonishing experience of listening to President Nixon’s every move on the Oval Office tapes and how his resignation forever changed America.
Aug 5, 2014
by HNN Staff
Who's saying what? This is where readers interested in the story can turn to find out.
Source: Times of San Diego
Aug 4, 2014
For a year now, Baron’s take-no-prisoners pen has been skewering all-comers in his column “Humoring the Headlines” for San Diego Jewish World, an online news site.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Aug 4, 2014
His chief complaint about recent scholarship is that it doesn't take into account why 13 colonies decided to rebel at the same time.
Aug 4, 2014
by Justin Bengry
The blog demonstrates that sex and sexuality are ‘useful categories’ for understanding political and economic histories, religious history, histories of childhood, colonialism and imperialism.
Aug 3, 2014
by HNN Staff
"It says much about Perlstein’s gifts as a historian that he persuasively portrays this sulky, slender interlude between the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan (as his subtitle has it) not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today."
Source: Social Evolution Forum
Aug 2, 2014
by Edward Turner
By publishing free-to-public data on historical societies, Seshat will soon become the world’s largest professional historical database.
Source: Oxford University Press Blog
Aug 2, 2014
John Ferling is one of the premier historians on the American Revolution.
Aug 2, 2014
"This is not symbolic or even legally justified homicide on your part but actual, cold-blooded, calculated killing, for which you are culpable."
Source: BBC History Magazine
Jul 31, 2014
Niall Ferguson talks to Rob Attar, editor of BBC History Magazine, about why he believes Britain made a terrible mistake in joining the First World War a century ago.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 31, 2014
by David Greenberg
The books are by Luke A. Nichter, Douglas Brinkley and Ken Hughes.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 31, 2014
by Bob Woodward
The new material reveals further examples of the administration’s contempt for the law.
Source: Radio Free Europe
Jul 31, 2014
A century after the outbreak of World War I, can we now answer the eternal question -- who was to blame?
Source: BBC History Magazine
Jul 30, 2014
Professor Paul Cartledge from the University of Cambridge reviews action movie Hercules.
Source: Commentary
Jul 30, 2014
by Max Boot
Morris is surely right. Hamas remains dedicated to Israel’s destruction and it remains intent on keeping its grip on Gaza. What can or should Israel do about it?
Source: Townhall
Jul 30, 2014
"Essentially by the end of his life, Martin Luther King like Mumia Abu Jamal, was a radical."
Source: NYT
Jul 30, 2014
Filmmaker Robert Drew mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors .
Source: Salon
Jul 30, 2014
"From climate change to foreign affairs, Reagan pushed America toward easy lies, just as reckoning seemed possible."
Source: Mosaic Magazine
Jul 30, 2014
Morris takes off the gloves in a debate about what happened in Lydda.
Source: NYT
Jul 29, 2014
by Sylvie Kauffmann
"While our German and British neighbors have been passionately debating theories about the origins of the war or its utility, all is quiet on the French front."
