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: The Conversation
11-21-17
by Tim Cole
"We were struck by the way that the most successful collaborations were ones where the distinct identities of arts and humanities researchers and businesses in the creative industries blurred. "
Source: Huffington Post
11-19-17
Harvard’s Donald Yacovone says textbooks reinforced attitudes of white supremacy.
Source: NYT
11-19-17
by Heather Ann Thompson
Only now are we learning that inmates were used as guinea pigs in an experiment involving the virus that causes leprosy.
Source: NYT
11-16-17
"Tens of thousands of people — many of them young men with crew cuts, but some parents with children, too — flocked to the Polish capital to celebrate Independence Day in a march organized in part by two neo-fascist organizations.”
Source: The Oberlin Review
11-17-17
In an interview he explains what the organization he co-founded (Democracy Collaborative) does.
Source: Vox
11-16-17
In an interview Dallek says that the corruption of Trump’s White House is unique.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-16-17
And back then, the American Historical Association notes in its latest jobs report, many fewer new graduates were competing for those openings.
Source: The Daily Caller
11-15-17
His appointment is not welcome by all. Many are upset he was paid nearly half a million dollars during a sabbatical.
Source: American Thinker
11-16-17
by James Arlandson
“[H]e is the one who seems ignorant of unfavorable evidence in the Quran, so his short book comes across mostly as a condescending and shallow exercise in special pleading and unfounded puffing."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-14-17
They are propelling a reckoning with slavery’s legacy on campuses, in cities, at companies. What Hilary Beckles is doing represents the next step.
Source: Time Magazine
11-15-17
by Thomas Weber
Thomas Weber says many of the victims and perpetrators haven’t spoken out.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
11-14-17
As America confronts its past, historians are asking new questions, pushing colleges, corporations, cities, museums, and governments to account for their ties to slavery.
Source: Politically Georgia
11-14-17
The Georgia Historical Quarterly’s lead article is a take-down of Confederate mythologizer E. Merton Coulter, who ran the periodical for a half century.
Source: In These Times
11-14-17
by Rick Perlstein
No, not even Jeff Flake.
Source: NY Review of Books
11-14-17 (accessed)
by Frances FitzGerald
She generally likes the film but worries that the emphasis on stories may obscure larger meanings.
Source: The Daily Beast
11-14-17
California has approved 10 textbooks for use in K-8 classrooms that include covering the contributions of LGBT people to American history. Cue predictable outrage.
Source: The Washington Post
11-10-17
David McCullough is trying to stage an intervention with Congress.
Source: Pacific Standard Magazine
11-9-17
The 2017 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient's interdisciplinary work on the Bay of Bengal teaches us that movement and migration are central forces in the making of Asian—and global—history.
Source: Journal Review
11-10-17
Yes, as the title shows: “Unforeseen: The First Blind Rhodes Scholar.”
Source: NYT
11-9-17
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn revealed that 25 years ago, Mr. Lara, then known as the Rev. James Lara, was laicized by the Vatican for sexually abusing children.
