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: Daiji World
Mar 27, 2014
Harvard University history professor Sugata Bose, grandnephew of Indian
revolutionary Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, envisions a globally competent
India.
Source: heartland.org
Mar 26, 2014
By providing a detailed course of study that defines, discusses, and interprets “the required knowledge of each period,” the College Board has in effect supplanted local and state curriculum by unilaterally assuming the authority to prioritize historic topics.
Source: beinkandescent.com
Mar 26, 2014
by David Bruce Smith
The Grateful American™ Series Heads to Mount Vernon to Interview Executive Director Doug Bradburn.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 26, 2014
Ivor Bell, now 77, was charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 who was abducted and killed in 1972.
Source: WGBH
Mar 25, 2014
The Harvard prof. explains Steinem's enduring appeal.
Source: AMERICAblog
Mar 25, 2014
Andrei Zubov was fired from his job as a history professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Source: AP
Mar 24, 2014
New York's highest court will consider whether to overturn convictions in the Internet impersonation case of a man who argues that mocking scholars in an academic debate about the Dead Sea Scrolls was protected by the First Amendment.
Source: CHE
Mar 24, 2014
Attention on Crimea Highlights Flux in Russia Studies.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
Mar 24, 2014
by Daniel Pipes
What began as convenience and formality has in a small way shifted my sense of identity.
Source: JNS.org
Mar 24, 2014
Randolph L. Braham chose to return an award—the Medium Cross of the Order of
Merit of the Hungarian Republic—that he received from the Hungarian
government in 2011
Source: Boston Globe
Mar 24, 2014
Need a lock of Hitler’s hair? Who you gonna call? (David Irving, apparently.)
Source: Jesse Lemisch Facebook Page
Mar 24, 2014
"Present-Mindedness Revisited: Anti-Radicalism as a Goal of American Historical Writing Since World War II" republished.
Source: New York Times
Mar 23, 2014
That five-syllable word has never been more loaded, more deliberately
used and, to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more pejorative.
Source: New York Times
Mar 23, 2014
Simon Schama on the making of ‘The Story of the Jews.’
Source: The Guardian
Mar 22, 2014
Professor says 'institutional racism' is behind a failure to recruit ethnic minority trainees.
Source: NY Review of Books
Mar 20, 2014
by Drew Gilpin Faust
David Brion Davis, age eighty-six, has published the final volume in the trilogy he inaugurated with The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (PSWC) and continued with The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (PSAR) in 1975.
Source: Jewish News Service
Mar 19, 2014
Dr. Randolph L. Braham, a prominent Holocaust historian and a survivor from Hungary, chose to return an award he got in 2011.
Source: Oregon Live
Mar 18, 2014
Peter John formerly taught at UC San Diego, Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash.,
Linfield College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland
Source: Associated Press
Mar 18, 2014
Allen
C. Guelzo's "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion" has received the inaugural
Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History
Source: BBC History Mag.
Mar 17, 2014
Chemists and engineers have always said that one person acting alone and possessing only matches and fire-lighters couldn’t have set the fire that destroyed the Plenary Chamber in just 15 minutes. They say the arsonist or arsonists had to have petrol or paraffin.
