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: Inside Higher Ed
1/29/19
Field's faculty jobs outlook was constant last year after years of disappearing positions.
Source: Princeton
1/24/19
Theodore Rabb, professor of history, emeritus, founder of Princeton’s “Humanities Sequence” and an innovative teacher of generations of students, died Jan. 7 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. He was 81.
Source: Background Briefing
1/27/19
The best-selling author and senior political advisor was interviewed on a recent podcast.
Source: Salon
1/24/19
Historians tell Salon that Trump's State of the Union implosion is completely "without precedent."
Source: Washington Post
1/25/19
Can impeachment appear legitimate in a hyper-partisan universe?
Source: UCONN Magazine
Accessed 1/29/19
History professor Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.
Source: Public Discourse
1/24/19
You do not need a license to practice history. Instead, all you need to do is work hard, do research, go to the sources, make the past meaningful, and write in a way that attracts readers.
Source: NBC News
1/23/19
Year after year, notable figures and institutions attempt to recast Martin Luther King Jr. as champion of causes that don't align with his legacy.
Source: Rolling Stone
1/22/19
"The more you build walls, the more the other side becomes foreign and you fear it."
Source: NPR
1/21/19
In an interview, Gates discusses how what he learned through his own DNA test.
Source: Associated Press
1/22/19
"For the most part, the museum does a fair job of explaining the agency's metamorphosis."
Source: Newsweek
1/21/19
Zelizer said the Trump administration is "antithetical to absolutely everthing" King fought for.
Source: Washington Post
1/21/19
by Charles Lane
The contemporary relevance of “The Vital Center” lies not so much in its specifics as in its spirit.
Source: NPR
1/18/19
The first government shutdown in history was in 1879, when former Confederate Democrats in Congress refused to fund the government unless protections for black voters went away.
Source: New York Times
1/20/19
Through memoir, interviews and extensive reading, Treuer counters the familiar narratives of invisibility that have so readily frozen America’s indigenous peoples.
Source: Independent
1/18/19
Lucy Worsley presents American History’s Biggest Fibs.
Source: Tennessee Tribune
1/17/19
One of Memphis foremost historians of Black music, she taught at two of the city’s historically Black colleges for forty years.
Source: Guardian
1/17/19
He was branded a Stalinist, and was spied on for decades by MI5, but was the famous historian a hardliner and renegade? His private papers tell a different story.
Source: New York Magazine
1/17/19
We asked three experts a simple question: Who does Ocasio-Cortez remind you of most strongly in American political history?
Source: Pacific Standard
1/16/19
In her new book, Jessica Wilkerson tells the stories of the radical mountain women who fought against bosses and laid the groundwork for ensuing generations of Appalachian resistance.
