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: Network of Concerned Historians
12/11/18
by Antoon De Baets
Some 45 scholars have signed a petition.
Source: War On The Rocks
12-10-2018
by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin
The discipline mostly has itself to blame for its current woes, say historians Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin.
Source: Edge Effects
4-7-2107
"I honestly think we are the last explicitly narrative discipline left in the American academy (with the journalists, as well)."
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
12-8-2018
The elder statesman and griot of Chicago’s black community is 100 years old.
Source: The Atlantic
12-7-2018
One veteran Mississippi teacher is forgoing textbooks for the local archives.
Source: Columbia Basin Herald
12-7-2018
The change came after the faculty union intervened in the case of Central Washington University professor Brian Carroll.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
11-17-2018
"Tens and hundreds of millions of people will want to leave the Middle East and Africa; where will they want to go to? Mostly to the West: especially Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia."
Source: Time Magazine
12-6-18
by Jason Steinhauer
Economics alone doesn’t explain the decline in history majors.
Source: The Daily Beast
12-6-2018
Around the country, amateur historians and professors are pulling up a bar stool and lecturing on a range of topics.
Source: Simon and Schuster (Special to HNN)
12/5/2018
An interview with Barry Strauss.
Source: Yale News
12-5-2018
History remains the third most popular major for the class of 2019 as the department sponsors new efforts to bolster its global focus.
Source: The Baffler
12-5-2018 (accessed)
by Kathryn Olmsted
Why today’s historians (but not pundits) are reluctant to embrace Hofstadter’s approach.
Source: S-USIH
12-5-18
by Andrew Hartman
A reminiscence by one of his former graduate students.
Source: The Conversation
12-4-18
by Jane Landers
The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
Source: The GW Hatchet
12-3-18
The George Washington University professor became famous for his book, “The Old Christian Right."
Source: The Globe and Mail
11-29-18
Students in the Grade 9 and 10 Canadian and Quebec history classes are being taught a “skewed, one-sided view of the past that distorts the historical record,” according to the committee report.
Source: Bloomberg
11-29-18
by Tyler Cowen
The first group stresses how small decisions can change the world. The other looks at how larger trends shape decisions.
Source: Medium
11-28-18
by Joy Lisi Rankin
"This essay is about me standing up for myself and facing down the bullies.”
Source: Pacific Standard Magazine
11-28-18
His battle with Dinesh D’Souza.
Source: VOA News
11-26-18
Stanford’s Sam Wineburg suggests that with the Internet there’s no reason for students to lug around big textbooks anymore.
