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: Overland
Apr 14, 2014
Passionate, strident, scholarly and forensic, the Lemisch paper detailed the ways leading American historians variously claimed political neutrality even as they were deeply engaged as conservatives or as liberals in the politics of post-war USA, with their historical writings part of and reflecting this engagement.
Source: UVA Today
Apr 14, 2014
The Pulitzer committee’s citation calls the book “a meticulous and insightful account of why runaway slaves in the colonial era were drawn to the British side as potential liberators.”
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
Apr 13, 2014
'Dixie Redux' essayists speak of their renowned mentor and colleague.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 13, 2014
Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is an unlikely advocate for peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
Apr 13, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
The final day!
Apr 12, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
The membership has stabilized at around 8,000 members.
Apr 12, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
A president, a president-elect, and a future president make news.
Apr 12, 2014
by Patricia Limerick
Her work has been in areas previously considered taboo, so she thought, why not let the OAH share in the fun.
Apr 12, 2014
by Rosemarie Zagarri
It was easier in the old days.
Source: AP
Apr 11, 2014
Richard Hoggart, a distinguished cultural historian and a significant witness in the court case that ended British censorship of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," has died at age 95.
Apr 11, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
The second full day of OAH 2014!
Source: The Seattle Times
Apr 10, 2014
Stephanie Camp, a noted feminist historian at the University of Washington whose work has been widely praised, died April 2.
Apr 10, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
New rules hamper our ability to cover the convention.
Apr 10, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
What happened on the first full day of the OAH in Atlanta.
Source: KCET
Apr 9, 2014
Susan Schrepfer, who died on March, taught several generations of environmental historians how to see the forest and the trees.
Source: New Haven Register
Apr 8, 2014
Mass incarceration has become the elephant in the room of modern American history, a panel of historians said Tuesday at Yale University.
Apr 8, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
The annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians begins Wednesday.
Source: Daily Reveille
Apr 7, 2014
Why history? “All you have to do is look at the Ukraine. No one knows where or what that is.”
Source: Politico
Apr 7, 2014
“If I didn’t believe Abraham Lincoln could win today, I might as well give up. OK, shave the beard and get rid of the stovepipe hat. But I think he was actually sexy.”
Source: New Republic
Apr 7, 2014
by Sonya Michel
"This latest instance of the museum’s feckless disregard for scholarly review prompted a number of the affiliated historians to conclude that we could not, in good faith, remain on the SAC. "
