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: Washington Post
12/9/19
The move has outraged professional and amateur genealogists, who argue that the increase would effectively put valuable immigration information out of reach for many.
Source: Boston Globe
12/9/19
García Peña's case has become a rallying cry for Harvard students and alumni who have been pushing the university to establish an ethnic studies department for nearly 50 years.
Source: Roger Williams University News
Associate Professor of History Autumn Quezada-Grant brings history into the modern age with a course assignment to create social media accounts for famous figures.
Source: NY Times
12/9/19
Is a bronze statue discovered in France a 16th century Renaissance masterpiece or a (much less valuable) 17th century copy? Readers shared their theories, opinions and expertise.
Source: NPR
12/9/19
At one time, there were 10 million Yahoo Groups with more than 100 million users - from neighborhood organizations to amateur astronomers. On Saturday, the archives disappeared.
Source: Cornell Chronicle
12/5/19
Tierney was a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Medieval Academy of America.
Source: Virginia Mercury
12/6/19
Includes a qutoe from Melvin Patrick Ely, a College of William & Mary history professor.
1/19/20
by Chelsea Connolly
Food historian Catherine Piccoli describes how this Brooklyn museum encourages its visitors to literally "digest" history.
Source: The Diplomat
12/2/19
A recent detention has implications for China-Japan relations.
Source: World Socialist Web Site
11/28/19
“When the Declaration says that all men are created equal, that is no myth”
Source: The Conversation
12/3/19
by Jeff Inglis
At 70, is NATO still important? 5 essential reads.
Source: Fast Company
12/3/19
"Like the second wave feminists who popularized the expression, we believe the personal is political,” writes Michelle Delaney.
Source: Irish Times
12/5/19
Four Courts fire at start of Civil War destroyed centuries of historic documents.
Source: Foreign Affairs
Accessed 12/5/19
Banner describes the book as an exercise of “historians’ civic office.”
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
11/22/2019
by Angela Serratore
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
12/3/19
by Scott Jaschik
Laurel Leff discusses her book on the failure of American universities to rescue scholars seeking to flee Nazi Germany.
Source: TIME
12/2/19
by Suyin Haynes
As the second wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn was one of the most powerful women in the world in the 16th century.
Source: AHA Perspectives on History
12/2/19
by James Grossman
Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.
Source: Origins
December
by Amanda Lawson
In his book, historian David C. Kirkpatrick explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American Evangelical Left.
Source: New York Times
12/1/2019
A decorated soldier in World War II, he helped reshape the study of war and was knighted in 1986 for his academic work.
