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: The Politic
8/5/2019
Dr. Krinitsky is currently working on a book, “The Politics of Crime Control: Race, Policing, and Reform in Twentieth-Century Chicago,” while working on research projects at the University of Michigan.
Source: Smithsonian.com
8/1/2019
A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places
Source: Morning Call
8/4/2019
The free, eight-session evening program aims to strengthen immigrants' understanding of the nation's revolution and evolution.
Source: Phys.org
8/5/2019
Archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to Jemez this summer to help members of the tribe excavate the site of two mission churches.
Source: NPR
8/4/2019
Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to author Timothy C. Winegard about his new book about the mosquito.
Source: Washington Post
7/25/19
by Marjoleine Kars
Eager to uncover the real Mary, Martha Saxton, an emerita historian at Amherst College who has written biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jayne Mansfield, set out to paint a more true-to-life portrait.
Source: A Correction: A Podcast
7/26/19
The hosts speak with David Carlin about why we need to reexamine the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles on its 100th anniversary.
Source: UPI
7/24/19
New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.
Source: Nursing Clio
7/29/19
by Averill Earls
This is a book that claims to be a work of history. This book absolutely needed the peer review of historians knowledgeable in this content area.
Source: Washington Post
7/24/19
Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.
Source: The Daily Beast
7/21/19
What does history’s magic 8-ball say about how we wound up with Donald Trump? Two historians try to supply the context.
Source: UVA Today
7/22/19
He came to UVA in 1991, and became the second director of the Woodson Institute, especially supporting the study of local African American history using early digital technology.
Source: Duke Today
7/22/19
While at Duke, he served as chair of the history department and as director of the Canadian Studies program. He was known for his love of Canada, baseball and jazz, and for his devotion to his students.
Source: Wall Street Journal
7/15/19
by Randall Stross
As late as the early 1970s, Northern California seemed a long-shot candidate for the center of the computerized universe. A review of Margaret O’Mara's The Code.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
7/22/19
When a misleading op-ed in The Wall Street Journal irks academics, it's time for a fact check on faculty work and pay.
Source: Tom Dispatch
7/18/19
by Tom Engelhardt
"As I turn 75, there’s no simpler way to put it than this: I’m an old man on a new planet -- and, in case it isn’t instantly obvious, that’s not good news on either score."
Source: The Atlantic
Accessed 7/18/19
by Drew Gilpin Faust
She looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
Source: Boston Magazine
7/16/19
The station apologized for having two men discuss researcher Sarah Milov's work without crediting her.
Source: Boston Globe
7/16/19
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission this week, let’s remember something else: the thousands of women from Cambridge to California who helped make possible the trip to the moon.
Source: Tom Dispatch
7/14/19
by Rebecca Gordon
"We’ve been going backwards on abortion access for decades. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has denied abortion services to women who get their health care through the federal Medicaid program, or indeed to anyone whose health insurance is federally funded."
