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.
Jan 13, 2014
McPherson is the author of "War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865," which formed the basis for his George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History at the 2014 annual meeting of the AHA.
Source: Christian Post
Jan 11, 2014
Fewer students will be exposed to the great works of literature, art and
music under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, Terrence O.
Moore argues.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 10, 2014
He was surely the best-read historian of his age, yet the labour never shows; his midnight oil must have been of the lightest extra-virgin variety.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 10, 2014
by David Cutler
Eric Foner on what it takes to be a good K-12 history teacher.
Source: Cambridge University
Jan 8, 2014
Gove had called Evans' arguments about World War I those of "an undergraduate cynic."
Jan 8, 2014
Elaine Carey Philip Zelikow, Jonathan Rees, Ann Little, and Jeremy Adelman met to debate MOOCs at #aha2014.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 6, 2014
"There is no one who
communicates the work of thinking to more people with more rigor and
effect than Harris-Perry."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 6, 2014
Historians from the State and Defense Departments and Congress expressed
few regrets at leaving the ivory tower.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 6, 2014
If the open access movement can’t replace the
traditional publishing model of scholarly journals, what problem is the
effort trying to solve?
Source: Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Jan 5, 2014
Public history was prominently featured at the meeting.
Jan 5, 2014
Elaine Carey is Associate Professor at St. John's University in Queens, NY and the vice-president for the AHA Teaching Division. Julia Brookins is the AHA's special projects coordinator. Both of them have played leading roles in the AHA's Tuning Project for undergraduate education.
Jan 5, 2014
In this interview, Kraut reflects on what historians can teach to policymakers... and how Ellis Island was as much a medical center as an immigration facility.
Jan 5, 2014
The GMU prof. discusses the future of online education and what the tech. world and historians can learn from each other.
Jan 5, 2014
Here, the Cornell University professor explains how American lurched to
war in Vietnam, and why Ho Chi Minh was a more complicated actor than
policymakers of the time understood.
Jan 5, 2014
by David Austin Walsh
The AHA is losing some of its long-time staffers, but has still had a remarkably successful 2013.
Jan 4, 2014
A partial list of other bloggers covering #aha2014.
Jan 4, 2014
by David Austin Walsh
Quantifying the Twittersphere at #aha2014
Source: Al Jazeera
Jan 3, 2014
SBOE member Ruben Cortez submitted a November 21 request to include Mexican-American studies.
Jan 3, 2014
How the concept of human rights developed in the eighteenth century in a very different way than our idea of human rights in the twentieth and twenty-first.
Jan 3, 2014
Professor Grafton discusses the future of the printed book, and what
younger historians should know about the emerging field of digital
history.
