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
October 17, 2017
by Peggy O’Donnell
Peggy O’Donnell taught history at West Point for a year. She says the sexism was “glaring."
Source: Moyers & Company
October 11, 2017
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
October 17, 2017
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
September 13, 2017
"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
October 15, 2017
In a new book D. Michael Quinn shows how church went from losing money to making money — lots of it.
Source: Inside Higher ED
October 13, 2017
Yes. But the message in his new book is that those who major in liberal arts make great employees.
Source: NY Review of Books
October 12, 2017 (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
September 11, 2017
The University of Florida historian is upset that the administration is allowing Richard Spencer to speak on October 19.
Source: The Leader
October 12, 2017
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)
October 12, 2017
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
October 11, 2017
"We’re now on quite thin ice.”
Source: The Nation
October 12, 2017
by David Marcus
It’s by Richard Aldous.
Source: Forbes
October 11, 2017
The British broadcaster is crowdfunding a new platform called HistoryHit.TV.
Source: Town Topics
October 11, 2017
This is what Martha A. Sandweiss found.
Source: UVA Today
October 10, 2017
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
October 11, 2017
They are Harvard's Sunil Amrith and the University of Michigan's Derek Peterson.
Source: Salon
October 10, 2017
In an interview she discusses her book “Democracy in Chains” and the evil genius of the Koch brothers’ donor network.
Source: Middle East Eye
October 7, 2017
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
October 9, 2017
Tessa Winkelmann told her history class that she predicted Trump’s election would lead to death. She’s now apologized.
Source: NYT
October 6, 2017
by Michael B. Oren
The historian says the agreement has been “ruinous.”
