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: NY Times
1/13/20
Featuring Kevin Kruse and other educators.
Source: The Third Narrative
1/12/20
Members of the Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) were instrumental in defeating two proposed resolutions at the business meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020.
Source: Society of U.S. Intellectual History
1/7/20
by Tim Lacy
A Decade in Review: Cultural Markers, Keywords, and Other (Totally Subjective) Noteworthy Things
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
1/5/20
by Sari Beth Rosenberg
Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association.
Source: The Guardian
1/7/20
Academic researchers of Iranian history, archaeology, art and culture, based in national museums and universities across the world, react in horror to the US president’s threat to target Iranian sites.
Source: Washington Post
1/7/20
James M. Goode was a Smithsonian Institution historian and author who wrote books about the statues and architecture of Washington, specializing in the out-of-the-way, the lesser-known, the trivial, the no-longer extant and the never-heard-of.
Source: New York Magazine
1/7/20
Featuring historians David Greenberg, Christopher R. Browning, Robert O. Paxton, Steven J. Ross, Susan Dunn, and Geoffrey Perret.
Source: Boston Review
1/6/20
After retiring from Princeton, celebrated historian Nell Irvin Painter decided to go to art school. In this interview with Walter Johnson, she discusses what it’s like to be an old student, and how art lets her tell truths about history that she couldn’t as an academic.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
1/7/20
Historians approve an anti-ICE resolution but vote down anti-Israel proposals at their annual meeting. They also show support for nontenured colleagues.
Source: KUT.org
1/3/20
In his book “Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide,” author C.J. Alvarez explores 150 years of border-barrier history.
Source: Backstory Radio
1/3/20
BackStory began in 2008 as a monthly radio show.
Source: New York Times
1/7/20
“Wilmington’s Lie” is a tragic story about the brutal overthrow of the multiracial government of Wilmington, N.C., in 1898.
Source: NPR
1/6/20
Featuring historian Michaael Kazin.
Source: Foreign Affairs
1/1/20
Sir Michael Howard, who died on November 30, 2019, a day after his 97th birthday, was a giant in the worlds of military history and strategic studies.
Source: NY Times
12/31/19
Her arguments that a little more virtuousness trumps any number of government social programs made her a hero to some and a bête noire to others.
Source: Washignton Post
12/31/19
“Everything goes,” said Sonya Gavankar, a Newseum spokeswoman and 20-year veteran of the facility.
Source: Tokyo Review
12/30/19
The China-related story that most agitated the minds of Japanese academia this fall was undoubtedly the arrest of Iwatani Nobu, a professor of modern Chinese history at Hokkaidō University, detained in early September on suspicion of spying during a trip to Beijing.
Source: Politico
12/29/19
by Nicholas Lemann
His historical research and writing was substantially about American politics and government in modern times.
Source: Cornell Chronicle
12/23/19
Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus, a renowned scholar of English and American political thought and history, and a longtime champion of undergraduate education, died Dec. 21 in New York City. Kramnick was 81.
Source: Politico
12/27/19
Politico asked 23 top historians to write the paragraph that will describe the past decade, 100 years from now.
