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: Forbes
Oct 14, 2013
by Adam Ozimek
Ferguson himself needs to do a better job of admitting past mistakes.
Source: Associated Press
Oct 14, 2013
Lessons from America's most forgotten war.
Source: Fargo-Moorhead Forum
Oct 13, 2013
Gerald Anderson follows an old adage for authors: write what you know.
Source: CBS This Morning
Oct 11, 2013
Dallek is an award-winning biographer of the thirty-fifth president.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 11, 2013
The fifth annual Ulysses S. Grant lecture has been canceled due to the federal shutdown.
Oct 10, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
The 46-year-old professor of history and gender studies faced dismissal for sleeping with students.
Source: University of Virginia
Oct 9, 2013
PresidentialCollections.org aims to make discovering these and others materials easier for a wide audience.
Source: UCR Today
Oct 8, 2013
Historian Denver Graninger works to establish a new branch of the AIA in Riverside, California.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 8, 2013
by Niall Ferguson
What Paul Krugman gets wrong (and it's a lot).
Source: Memphis Flyer
Oct 8, 2013
We're in a period of transition, but it's not like books are going extinct.
Source: New York Times
Oct 7, 2013
The Princeton economist takes the Harvard historian to task.
Source: WBUR (Boston)
Oct 7, 2013
Lepore's new book is "Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin."
Source: Associated Press
Oct 6, 2013
Gutman was born in Warsaw in 1923 and fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943.
Source: Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Oct 6, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
The Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette profiles efforts to organize non-tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois.
Source: New York Times
Oct 5, 2013
Goodwyn's "Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in
America" is still a standard text.
Source: NPR
Oct 5, 2013
NPR features Diderot as a lost historical gem.
Source: Times of India
Oct 3, 2013
Churchill wrote in an internal memo to the India Office that gas should be used in the Northwest Frontier.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Oct 2, 2013
Ramachandra Guha is a leading authority on Indian history.
Source: ABC News (Australia)
Oct 2, 2013
One of the editors of the new Cambridge History of Australia is the
prolific and left leaning academic professor Stuart Macintyre.
Source: WBUR (Boston)
Oct 1, 2013
Government shutdowns used to be pretty common until the 1990s, but they were skirmishes, not battles -- certainly not wars.
