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: University of Virginia
Feb 5, 2014
The course will offer an introduction to Jefferson’s thoughts, focusing
on several key ideas and themes that engaged him throughout his public
career and private life.
Source: Orange County Register
Feb 4, 2014
Steven Topik's history course at UC Irvine looks at history through the lens of a coffee cup.
Source: Press Release -- www.davidbrucesmith.com.
Feb 4, 2014
“You have to know where you came from to know where you are going.”
Source: The New Republic
Feb 4, 2014
Clark is an historian of social mobility.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 4, 2014
Reynolds worked at State for thirty years.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 3, 2014
The historian's influence has been enormous, if not always obvious.
Source: Charlotte News-Observer
Feb 2, 2014
Joe Manning has found her descendants and her name. “She was a person, not just a picture,” he said.
Source: The Courier-Journal (KY)
Feb 2, 2014
Ravitch spoke Saturday to the Kentucky School Boards Association.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan 31, 2014
Linda A. Downs, executive director of the College Art Association, isn't laughing.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 30, 2014
Art historians remain confused about what "fair use" laws actually allow.
Source: Associated Press
Jan 30, 2014
Meacham said that FDR and Lincoln did not "rebuild" the country through executive orders.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 30, 2014
A proposal to bar senior members of the International Studies Association from blogging has drawn the ire of academics.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 30, 2014
Historian Niall Ferguson says Britain could have lived with German victory and should have stayed out of war.
Jan 29, 2014
David Bruce Smith has a mission: to get young people more
interested in American history.
Source: AHA Today
Jan 28, 2014
An itemized list of AHA decisions from 2013.
Source: New York Times
Jan 28, 2014
The massive numbers of Jews killed by advancing German soldiers still remain hazy in popular historical memory.
Source: NBC 7 (San Diego)
Jan 27, 2014
San Diegan, Craig Gottlieb, purchased a passport that he believes was used by Josef Mengele, a.k.a the “Angel of Death,” to flee to Argentina in 1949.
Source: AHA Today
Jan 27, 2014
The committee will establish evaluation standards.
Source: New York Times
Jan 27, 2014
Randolph L. Braham, himself a Holocaust survivor, returned the award after Hungarian efforts to downplay that country's role as a German ally in World War II.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan 26, 2014
How Boston College’s oral history of the Troubles fell victim
to an international murder investigation.
