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: La Porte Herald Argus (IN)
Oct 28, 2013
The McCarthy era and the Civil War stand out as examples.
Source: Arkansas Online
Oct 27, 2013
Roy Wilson has researched history and taught secondary education for forty years. He explains how his two endeavors compliment each other.
Source: The Daily Beast
Oct 27, 2013
by Ted Widmer
No historian has ever been as close to power as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was to President Kennedy.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 25, 2013
by Stacey Patton
The story of medievalist Melissa Bruninga-Matteau.
Source: National Public Radio
Oct 24, 2013
"We love being the country that freed the slaves ... [but] we're not so fond of being the country that had the biggest slave system on the planet."
Source: The New Republic
Oct 24, 2013
But historian Michael Hiltzik says Obama could've learned a few lessons from FDR.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Oct 23, 2013
"We live very much in a world Woodrow Wilson created."
Source: Brandeis University
Oct 22, 2013
Eugene Black leaves behind a legacy of service at Brandeis.
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 21, 2013
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates admires Tony Judt's opus "Postwar" for its criticism of the "clean" political ideology of World War II and its aftermath.
Source: New York Times
Oct 21, 2013
Ramachandra Guha is one of India’s foremost public intellectuals
and historians. “Gandhi Before India,” his first volume of a two-part
biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, was published in India earlier this
month.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Oct 21, 2013
by Ralph Benko
Krugman's halo is now broken, thanks to Ferguson.
Source: Gilder Lehrman
Oct 18, 2013
Readers are encouraged to submit questions beforehand.
Source: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
Oct 17, 2013
San Diego Gay and Lesbian News profiles the distinguished historian.
Source: The Hilltop
Oct 17, 2013
S. Omar Badsha speaks at the Howard African Studies Department's 60th anniversary about his historical work and the protests that inspired it.
Source: Phys.org
Oct 17, 2013
Phys.org highlights Rosalind Williams' work exploring the responses of important authors to technology.
Source: The Daily Beast
Oct 17, 2013
by Eric Herschthal
Simon Winchester's "The Men Who United the States" tells the nation’s history through the creation of its infrastructure.
Source: National Public Radio
Oct 16, 2013
The Dulles brothers shaped Cold War-era America.
Source: Mother Jones
Oct 16, 2013
"It was refreshing how closely they followed the exact events."
Source: Associated Press
Oct 15, 2013
Luke Nichter and Douglas Brinkley are collaborating on the project.
Source: Prensa Latina News Agency
Oct 14, 2013
Historian James Cockcroft calls upon his country to release Cuban anti-terrorists.
