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: Stanford News
1/15/19
Harold L. Kahn, a professor emeritus who helped create a generation of leading U.S. scholars in Chinese and Japanese history, died on Dec. 11.
Source: The Paris Review
1/15/19
The recent republication of The Third Sex by the Bibliothek rosa Winkel revives lost voices from Germany’s queer past and recovers a remarkable piece of trans history.
Source: NBC News
1/15/19
The debate around teaching this history has been controversial.
Source: Telegraph
1/15/19
Whiskers were so popular in the 19th century that even women wanted to grow sideburns.
Source: Fox News
1/15/19
“He is not a spy,” Hua Qu said. “He's just a history nerd.”
Source: In Style
1/14/19
As the foremost expert on U.S. presidents and their peccadilloes, Doris Kearns Goodwin thinks we could learn a thing or two from the past.
Source: Truth Dig
1/11/10
A great summary of the new addition of James Loewen's classic.
Source: Washington Post
1/12/19
Mr. Salter — as he was known throughout his career as an activist and academic — died Jan. 7 at his home in Pocatello, Idaho, at age 84.
Source: Washington Post
1/13/19
“Irascible, brilliant and deeply learned, Ribuffo argued that America’s anti-liberal traditions were far more deeply rooted in the past, and far angrier than most historians would acknowledge."
Source: Time
1/11/19
And why she loves writing biographies.
Source: Voice of America
1/11/19
Early maps helped establish a national identity and loyalty for the United States in its early days.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
1/11/19
And how our personal lives often intersect with our scholarly work.
Source: Washington Post
1/13/19
The author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles, he focused primarily on Christian missions and missionaries, and on the church’s development into a diverse, international religion.
Source: Forbes
1/10/19
Data allows us to see the world in ways we’ve never dreamed about, transforming piles of numbers into visualizations that help us understand the world around us.
Source: CNN
1/9/19
The PBS documentary series provides modern-day resonance -- a guide to tyrants of the past, conveying lessons on how those tactics can be employed in the present.
Source: Washington Post
1/9/19
by Paul Duggan
With so many fresh voices eager to be heard, Levin told Duggan, old-timers like the neo-Confederate profiled belong in the dust bin.
Source: Rolling Stone
1/7/19
The Harvard historian on her opus ‘These Truths,’ the Me Too movement, and Trump’s cartoon version of populism
Source: Scholarly Kitchen
1/8/29
by Karin Wulf
Explore new resources that highlight the contributions of women historians.
Source: National Security Archive
1/7/19
The annual award goes to publications deemed especially worthy of attention from academic librarians seeking to build research collections.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/4/19
A recent paper by the Stanford History Education Group suggests students don’t learn critical thinking in undergraduate history courses -- a challenge to history’s sales pitch that its graduates are finely tuned critical thinkers.
