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: Newsweek
10-20-17
She was immediately denounced by Alex Jones.
Source: The Cornell Daily Sun
10-25-17
“The more just and astute the elite, the less angry the people.” – Barry Strauss
Source: rediff.com
10-26-17
"Studying History, we come close to all of the messiness of human life -- we understand what motivates people, what makes them get along or go to war, what dreams they had for themselves and their futures."
Source: Harvard Gazette
10-24-17
Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, ‘The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve’
Source: New Republic
10-25-17
by Josephine Livingstone
The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?
Source: Foreign Policy
10-19-17
by Max Boot
"I am done, done, done with the GOP after more than 30 years as a loyal Republican.”
Source: The Times of Israel
10-24-17
Head of Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin receives government award, weeks after publishing article downplaying Jewish suffering in WW2.
Source: UVA Today
10-23-17
It will addresss the challenges African-American and other students of color encounter in their education in the South.
Source: AHA
10-24-17 (accessed)
by Mary Beth Norton, Claire Bond Potter, and Brian W. Ogilvie
The determination to maintain old loyalties or devise new ones can become a foundation for building nations, waging war, transforming and imagining new forms of human community.
Source: AHA
10-24-17 (accessed)
Topics include how museums should remember plantation slavery, Chicano history and the role of historians as public intellectuals.
Source: Moyers & Company
10-23-17
by Harvey Kaye
FDR's old progressive coalition can still win elections, he says.
Source: Raw Story
10-20-17
Beschloss marveled at former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama publicly denouncing President Donald Trump — albeit without mentioning his name– saying it is a huge departure in presidential decorum.
Source: Yahoo
10-21-17
Vladimir Medinsky, who has published a best-selling trilogy of Russian history in which he presents a glossy nationalist version of the country's past, is also the chairman of the state-backed Russian Military History Society.
Source: The Washington Post
10-20-17
by Thomas Childers
Childers is the author of "The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany."
Source: Salon
10-19-17
by Chauncey DeVega
Naval War College professor on North Korea’s likely view of Trump’s threats: Not only is he reckless, he’s stupid.
Source: siliconrepublic.com
10-20-17
"As long as there has been news, there has been fake news; and as long as there has been information, there is misinformation and disinformation.” — Dr. Linda Kiernan
Source: Missouri S&T
10-20-17
These writings, known as the Lausanne Theses, led to the expulsion of three prominent Lutheran ministers from the Swiss city of Bern in the mid-1500s, says Missouri University’s Michael W. Bruening.
Source: The Mercury News
10-18-17
by Victor Davis Hanson
"We are in the middle, not at the end, of a long North Korean crisis. But we need to ensure that worries over how the crisis escalates will be all Chinese and North Korean — and not our own."
Source: Moyers & Company
10-13-17
Whitman’s book: "Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law."
Source: NYT
10-18-17
A storyteller, she was regarded as the unofficial historian of Sapelo Island, Ga.
