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: American Historical Association
2/12/18
The AHA has published a statement condemning Polish law criminalizing references to Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
2-4-18
by Stéphane Gerson
That prompted Stéphane Gerson to develop an obsessive desire to investigate the history of the river where the accident took place.
Source: The Harvard Crimson
2-9-18
History professor Philip J. Deloria, began teaching last month, after years of activists calling for Native American studies offerings.
2/6/18
by Robert Townsend
As of 2015, the median earnings for history majors in the workforce with just a bachelor’s degree were $53,000, while those who had gone on to earn an advanced degree (which could be in any discipline) had median earning of $80,000.
Source: The Nation
2-7-18 (accessed)
Labor was militant in the 1970s despite George Meaney’s cozy relationship with Nixon, says historian Lane Windham.
Source: The Washington Post
2-6-18
by Peter Cole
Western Illinois University’s Peter Cole says "Americans cannot afford to continue ignoring our history of racist violence."
Source: Fox News
1-19-18
by Allen C. Guelzo
Yes, this is news. There aren’t many professional historians who approve of Trump.
Source: The Washington Post
2-7-18
by Donald Earl Collins
History class should be the last place where we stop talking about race.
Source: The Washington Post
2-5-18
by Max Boot
"It is up to House leaders — that means you, Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) — to stop Nunes before he smears again.”
Source: WSJ
2-5-18
by David J. Garrow
In an op ed in the Wall Street Journal he argues that the FBI surveillance of Carter Page is comparable to the Bureau’s wiretapping of MLK.
Source: New Republic
2-6-18
A conversation with historian Elizabeth Catte, author of a new book that upends narratives about a region that has been dubbed Trump Country
Source: The Calvert Journal
2-5-18
His current project is a monumental nine-volume history of the Russian state up to 1917.
Source: AHA
2/6/18
The organization is asking members to fill out a survey.
Source: Daily Beast
2/5/18
by Anthony Clark
She Was Assaulted by the Head of the National Archives. Then the Bush White House Helped Cover It Up.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
2-3-18
In an interview the historian says "I have many worries about him but at this point I emphatically like most of his Middle East policy.”
Source: WSJ
2-2-18
What was striking about the 1790s, Mr. Wood emphasizes, is the extent to which each party sincerely believed the other posed an existential threat.
Source: The Guardian
1-30-18
by Charlotte Higgins
How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
by Victoria L. Jackson
The non-revenue athletes don't get paid but most generate huge sums for the schools where they play. Oh, and most are black.
Source: National Post
1-31-18
Sebastien Normandin, whose whereabouts are unknown, remains active on social media — writing on Facebook, "... jail is as bad as it gets. Avoid at all costs"
Source: The Times (London)
2-1-18
His offense? Sharing on Facebook a picture of a handbag by the prime minister’s wife that appears to be an expensive one by Hermes priced at $64,000.
