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: New Republic
7/3/18
by Jeet Heer
And then other historians join in.
Source: Harvard Magazine
7-5-18 (accessed)
The idea: The relationship between race and crime.
Source: Radio Free Europe
7-3-18
Russian authorities have formally indicted historian Yury Dmitriyev on a charge of sexual assault against his adopted daughter following an earlier acquittal on child-pornography charges.
Source: WTSP
7-2-18
Former Associate Professor Tamara Zwick claims that the chair of the USF Tampa history department, Fraser Ottanelli, repeatedly sexually harassed her and spread false rumors about her.
Source: From The Desk
6-19-18
The book: “Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump”
Source: USA Today
7-3-18
It uses history to explain today's divides.
Source: The Daily Beast
6-30-18
The veteran LGBT activist and historian argues in his new book that modern activism has lost its way—and lost its spark—in pursuit of mainstream acceptance.
Source: NYT
7-1-18
One of the world’s foremost classical scholars, she wrote books about Seneca and Nero.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6-29-18
A medievalist petitions her way onto the ballot for the American Historical Association’s council.
Source: NYT
6-29-18
by Thomas J. Sugrue
The lesson? To succeed you often have to be uncivil.
Source: The Korea Herald
6-28-18
He should know. He was involved in the step-by-step talks under Bush.
Source: Newsweek
6-29-18
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and young people were killed as a result of ritualistic sacrifice between 3100 and 2800 B.C.E.
Source: Detroit Free Press
6-29-18
Ford Motor Co. has hired away Coca-Cola's image historian, Ted Ryan, who will essentially sculpt Ford's story and seek to reframe how America and the world think of the iconic carmaker.
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian
6-29-18
Earlier this year, an undergraduate student research study supported by Penn's History Department found that many of the University's founding trustees had substantial connections to the slave trade.
Source: ABC New (Australia)
6-30-18
The decision by a West Australian bureaucrat to redact the word "Aboriginal" from official documents has created an outcry among archivists, genealogists and historians across Australia.
Source: Keep The Faith
7-1-18
The campaign, the first of its kind, is being led by historian and author Dr Robert Peprah-Gyamfi, whose own uncle was among those forced conscripts.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6-28-18
After an investigation found that he had behaved inappropriately with female students, Landis, an assistant professor of history at Tarleton State, privately told well-known female historians that he had been the victim of a smear campaign. It backfired.
Source: Johns Hopkins University
6-26-18
Her "Rehearsal for Reconstruction," published in 1964, is considered a groundbreaking work in the scholarly reconsideration of North American slavery.
Source: Slate
6-21-18
What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?
Source: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
6-20-18
by Mark Bauerlein
"The undergraduate masses want one thing, the elite tells them they’re wrong and deliver another thing."
