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 National Constitution Center (blog)
May 29, 2014
National Constitution Center president Jeffrey Rosen spoke with Dallek in a riveting one-hour discussion about a leader whose resistance to pressure and adherence to principle offers a fascinating perspective on presidential power.
Source: AP
May 28, 2014
"Killing Patton" will be published on Sept. 23.
Source: WSPD
May 28, 2014
In this movie, a troubled, young history professor tries to escape his past by taking a job at a new university.
Source: NY Daily News
May 28, 2014
Ravitich isn't saying publicly if she'd run.
Source: Government Book Talk
May 28, 2014
This book joins existing publications "Women in Congress" and "Black Americans in Congress" in honoring minorities and their role in government.
Source: The Chronicle
May 27, 2014
The history of science has never had the easiest stories to tell.
Source: Society for US Intellectual History
May 27, 2014
by Andrew Hartman
Kolko showed that conventional understandings of the Progressive Era were exactly wrong.
Source: London Evening Standard
May 27, 2014
Instead of reading whole books, undergraduates are using the index to find relevant points, reading articles and looking information up on Wikipedia.
Source: Financial Times
May 23, 2014
The FT found mistakes and unexplained entries in his spreadsheets.
Source: TWC News
May 23, 2014
"He was a unique individual with unique gifts and talents and a knack for making everyone he encountered comfortable with him.”
Source: Salon
May 22, 2014
by Heather Digby Parton
"Ben Sasse believes that our right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life."--Ben Sasse website
Source: The Irish Times
May 22, 2014
Material already handed over only accounts for small portion of interviews with former IRA paramilitaries
Source: Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
May 22, 2014
Dr. Jonathan Holloway and Dr. Alondra Nelson have been appointed deans at Columbia and Yale University.
Source: Coordinating Council for Women’s History
May 22, 2014
Petition expressing concern now has more than 500 signatures.
Source: BBC
May 21, 2014
Dr Anthony McIntyre, who conducted the interviews with former IRA members, said he was shocked to learn that a news organisation had attempted to have the documents released.
Source: NYPost
May 21, 2014
He must continue to attend therapy as part of a no-jail plea deal.
Source: The Republic
May 21, 2014
Sherow says he wants to promote cooperation in Congress and represent the Kansas district's agricultural interests.
Source: USC Annenberg
May 20, 2014
Sasse argues that journalists and historians have misapprehended, and indeed misreported, the story of the rise of the modern religious right.
Source: Come Home America
May 20, 2014
Kolko was an American historian who wrote about the close connection between the government and big business throughout the Progressive Era and the Cold War.
Source: WaPo
May 20, 2014
He wins the George Washington Book Prize.
