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.
1/5/18
They appeared on a panel convened to discuss Moshik Temkin's controversial NYT op ed, "Historians Shouldn’t Be Pundits."
1/5/18
Is free speech endangered on college campuses today?
1/5/18
What truth means now.
Source: Reuters
1-4-18
Drew Gilpin Faust, Mary Frances Berry, Niall Ferguson.
1/4/18
An interview with LSU's Suzanne Lynn Marchand.
1/4/18
An interview with CUNY's Kathryn Mahaney.
1/4/18
An interview with Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on the perspective historians offer.
1/4/18
An interview with James W. Loewen.
Source: UW News
1-3-17
The historian’s essay? “How should we protest neo-Nazis? Lessons from German history”
Source: Deseret News
1-2-18
Smith was the author of numerous books and served as the editor of “The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion.”
1/2/18
by Rick Shenkman
A survey by the Chronicle of Higher Ed implicates scores of historians.
Source: The Tribune (India)
1-2-18
The RSS and the BJP are determined to divide the nation on religious grounds, historians say, adding that history is a discipline of reason and could not be written with “fabricated truths, imagination or myth-making.”
1/1/18
by Rick Shenkman
What happened at the AHA in 2018.
Source: Politico
12-29-17
A dozen historians weigh in.
Source: Politicus USA
12-28-17
"It goes way beyond Nixon.”
Source: The American Conservative
12-27-17
by Paul Gottfried
Forget Trump---Goldberg, Prager, and D’Souza muddle facts to sell books all the time.
Source: Independent
12-28-17
Mark Whittow, 60, died after the collision involving five vehicles on Saturday.
Source: Foreign Policy
12-27-17
by Max Boot
"I used to be a smart-alecky conservative who scoffed at 'political correctness.' The Trump era has opened my eyes.”
Source: JStor
12-25-17
"As things become more hopeless, we have to fight more intensely because of issues of integrity, honesty, decency, truth, justice.”
Source: NEPR
12-28-17
Smith College historian Daniel Horowitz chronicles the rise of "positive psychology” in a new book.
