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: Daily Beast
1/5/19
This true story shows just how much we depend on the bravery of the few to right the wrongs of the many.
Source: Guardian
1/6/19
Westminster feared a ‘Bolshevik uprising’ when 60,000 strikers fought police on the streets. What really happened in the Battle of George Square?
Source: NPR
1/5/19
As Hollywood continues to struggle with the underrepresentation of women behind the camera, most people have forgotten that 100 years ago, one woman ruled.
Source: The Times
1/6/19
Joe Manning delves deeper, and wants to know more about the people in Great Depression era pictures.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/6/19
by Emma Pettit
New programs seek to track the careers of PhD's and learn from the data.
Source: The Guardian
1/5/19
A new biography reveals the Marxist intellectual asked the author why MI5 man in A Perfect Spy had a name so like his own.
Source: NYT
1/4/19
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn's writing recalled how the racial split between white and black suffragists became glaringly obvious in 1913 when black participants in a Washington protest march were ordered to walk at the rear.
Source: CBS News
1/4/19
"What is character?...It's being able to create a team of people who may be stronger and smarter than you are, but you're going to use them," Goodwin said.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Accessed 1/4/19
In “How to Hide an Empire,” Daniel Immerwahr explores America far beyond the borders of the Lower 48
Source: Chicago Sun Times
1/3/19
Beginning Tuesday, public colleges and universities throughout the state must offer a course studying black history.
Source: Simon and Schuster (Special to HNN)
1/2/19
An interview with Andrew Nagorski, the author of "The Nazi Hunters."
Source: Washington Post
12/27/18
by David S. Anderson
With its dubious claims, “Legends of the Lost” sits amid a problematic world of television shows, books and websites that promote pseudoarchaeological claims that produce an image of the past that their authors wish to see, rather than one supported by the thorough analysis of all relevant information.
Source: CBS – Face the Nation
12/30/2018
The Harvard historian says we're trapped in polarized politics that began in the 1970s.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
12-31-2018
In an interview he chalked up the decision to impulsiveness.
12/29/2018
by Kyla Sommers
Kyla shares her excitement to continue Rick Shenkman's mission for HNN.
Source: Politico
12-28-2018
16 top historians predict the future.
12/28/2018
by HNN Staff
These five articles published in 2018 drew more hits than any others on HNN.
Source: UC Davis
12-20-2018
by Karen Nikos-Rose
The book’s essays illustrate the history of an entire continent through women and their ideas about gender: migration, colonialism, warfare, free and unfree labor, incarceration, sexuality, race, music, and women in the work force, in politics and in motherhood.
Source: Simon and Schuster (Special to HNN)
12/27/2018
An interview with Patricia O’Toole, the author of "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made."
Source: American Historical Association website
12/27/2018
The American Historical Association received a $1.65 million grant to study the problem.
