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: AHA
8/1/18
The University of Miami's Mary Lindemann.
Source: The Nation
7-31-18
by Richard Kreitner
An avid Nation reader since boyhood, Sterne, who died at 91, wrote an early account of the magazine.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
7/30/18
The historians – Melvyn P. Leffler and William I. Hitchcock – object to the appointment of Trump's legislative director, Marc Short.
7/30/18
by Rick Shenkman
The University of Connecticut professor is fine. The suspect has been identified.
Source: Sandbox
7/27/18
by Martin Kramer
No, Ben-Gurion did not object to Israel's decision to keep land won in the Six Day War.
Source: Pacific Standard
7-26-18
by David M. Perry
The demands for rote memorization, coupled with Western centrism, are failing our students.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
7-25-18
Texas historian Andrew Torget will teach a class for 30 hours in a tour de force to raise money for the university library.
Source: Penn Today
7-24-18
The civil rights activist, historian, and author discusses her new book “History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times.”
Source: RFA
7-23-18
Ethnic Mongolian historian and author Lhamjab A. Borjigin, 74, is facing for prosecution for "separatism" and "sabotaging national unity,”
Source: Study Breaks
7-24-18
by Kiersten Lynch
The casual nature of the retellings helps focus the story on the human characters, not just the facts, dates and events.
Source: The Washington Post
7-24-18
"Russian disinformation wasn’t the only factor in the outcome and was probably less important in the end than FBI Director James B. Comey’s announcement 11 days before the election that he was reopening the Clinton email investigation.” But it mattered.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
7-22-18
by Ashley Farmer
More than half a century after John Hope Franklin’s bitter experience in the archives, black historians often still feel out of place
Source: Twitter
7-24-18
by Tom Nichols
“These types of Trumpers are just lost. They're not going to climb down, change their minds, listen to new information."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
7-22-18
by Patrick Iber
Historians can be bothersome, remembering past practices that no longer meet changing moral standards, or never did.
Source: Roll Call
7-23-18
Historians on the Hill brings together staffers with history degrees
Source: Salon
7/23/18
by Chauncey DeVega
Bestselling history author says that sooner or later, Donald Trump will make his supporters “feel like chumps.”
Source: The Denver Post
7-13-18
by Patty Limerick
Prodding a historic friend to do better.
Source: NYT
7-21-18
by Idan Dershowitz
Idan Dershowitz says that happened in a 2.0 version added later.
Source: NYT
7-19-18
A Trump official claimed that birthright citizenship rests on a “deliberate misreading” of the 14th Amendment.
Source: The Washington Post
7-20-18
by Max Boot
"How I miss Barack Obama."
