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: Motherboard
12-14-17
Engaging with new media is no longer a dalliance for the history profession in the misinformation age.
Source: The Nation
12-13-17
by Kevin M. Kruse
The book: The Second Coming of the KKK.
Source: Yale News
12-12-17
Crystal Feimster says most students think of the civil rights movement as taking place mainly between 1954 and 1965. She debunks that myth and gives students tools to understand Ferguson and Charlottesville.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
12-12-17
The McGill historian says Israelis shouldn’t be deterred just because there’s opposition.
Source: National Association of Scholars (NAS)
12-5-17
The group that pushed for changes – the National Association of Scholars – says it’s an improvement but more changes are needed.
Source: AHA
12-12-17 (accessed)
The organization urges members to contact their members of Congress.
Source: The Nation
12-8-17
by Rashid Khalidi
But he sees a silver lining: “The US Can No Longer Pretend to Be an Honest Broker of Peace.”
Source: BESA Center Online Debate
12-11-17
by Daniel Pipes
"Good for Trump ignoring threats of the Arab street rising up; the riot veto must not be allowed to determine policy."
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian
12-10-17
She says it was her choice.
Source: xinhuanet.com
12-10-17
South Africa's National Heritage Council (NHC) has called on the country's black historians to make an effort to correct the distortions of history in some books by white historians.
Source: NYT
12-8-17
NYT details the complaints against Greco-Roman historian William V. Harris.
Source: The Middle East Media Research Institute
12-7-17
His comments were circulated widely by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Source: American Historical Association email to members
12-7-17
For the first time, the AHA annual meeting will include a set of late-breaking sessions, submitted just months before the meeting to allow historians to respond to current events.
Source: The New Yorker
12-6-17
Chief among them is historian Lyndall Ryan, who says her fellow historians are in denial about the extent of the massacres.
Source: Seton Hall University
12-6-17
Professor Connell tells how although Italians did not come to this country venerating Columbus, they found here an American public that did.
Source: WTOP
12-7-17
He stayed anonymous for more than three years, documenting Islamic State’s atrocities and the destruction of his city as the blogger Mosul Eye. Omar Mohammed, now in Europe, is done hiding.
Source: The Guardian
12-2-17
A conversation about tweets, politics, women rights.
Source: Foreign Policy
12-5-17
by Max Boot
"The only remaining question is what exactly he’s guilty of.”
Source: Network of Concerned Historians
12-6-17
by Antoon De Baets
Chinese-born American history student Xiyue Wang was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in Iran on trumped-up charges of espionage. He was doing archival research about the history of the Qajar dynasty (1785–1925).
Source: NIU Newsroom
12-4-17
“She was the lead organizer of the United Mine Workers of America and helped to end child labor. Yet she is largely forgotten.”
