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 Chronicle of Higher Education
10-17-17
by Peggy O’Donnell
Peggy O’Donnell taught history at West Point for a year. She says the sexism was “glaring."
Source: Moyers & Company
10-11-17
The 2016 National Book Award-winning author of Stamped From the Beginning talks about the unrelenting racism of America's past and present.
Source: UVA Today
10-17-17
Waitman Beorn, a lecturer in UVA’s Corcoran Department of History and a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was looking for a way to create an interactive map of the Lviv ghetto and the nearby Janowska concentration camp.
Source: S-USIH
9-13-17
"What I see emerging within the profession – especially over the last few years – has been a sharp divide between the moral relativists and the scholars who believe that history does have a presentist purpose."
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
10-15-17
In a new book D. Michael Quinn shows how church went from losing money to making money — lots of it.
Source: Inside Higher ED
10-13-17
Yes. But the message in his new book is that those who major in liberal arts make great employees.
Source: NY Review of Books
10-12-17 (accessed)
"The reviewers make another damaging mistake by claiming that even if Trump colluded with the Russians, 'the issue really is the cover-up, not the crime.' This trivializes the importance of such collusion.”
Source: WUFT
9-11-17
The University of Florida historian is upset that the administration is allowing Richard Spencer to speak on October 19.
Source: The Leader
10-12-17
Miranda Kauffman reveals the tales of 10 Africans who made their way through the Tudor and Stuart eras with varying success.
Source: The Times (London)
10-12-17
Nelson Mundell created his Minecraft walk-through visualisation of an 18th-century Caribbean plantation with technical help from his 78-year-old grandfather, who had never heard of the game until he was asked for assistance by his grandson.
Source: National Post
10-11-17
"We’re now on quite thin ice.”
Source: The Nation
10-12-17
by David Marcus
It’s by Richard Aldous.
Source: Forbes
10-11-17
The British broadcaster is crowdfunding a new platform called HistoryHit.TV.
Source: Town Topics
10-11-17
This is what Martha A. Sandweiss found.
Source: UVA Today
10-10-17
The symposium will bring together more than 125 people from universities, museums and historic sites to share their work and perspectives in panel discussions and interactive sessions.
Source: MacArthur Foundation
10-11-17
They are Harvard's Sunil Amrith and the University of Michigan's Derek Peterson.
Source: Salon
10-10-17
In an interview she discusses her book “Democracy in Chains” and the evil genius of the Koch brothers’ donor network.
Source: Middle East Eye
10-7-17
An exchange of 1919 letters between UK foreign secretary Lord Balfour and Lord Curzon reveal British reservations over the idea of Jewish state, he says.
Source: Newsweek
10-9-17
Tessa Winkelmann told her history class that she predicted Trump’s election would lead to death. She’s now apologized.
Source: NYT
10-6-17
by Michael B. Oren
The historian says the agreement has been “ruinous.”
