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 Washington Examiner
10-5-17
Trump is described as “the mad king.”
Source: Missoulian
10-5-17
A flier for his course – “White Supremacy History/Defeat” – was changed to read: “Black Nationalism History/Defeat.”
Source: The Daily Texan
10-5-17
by Megan Raby
"Most people mistakenly think climate change is new — a recent discovery … In fact, the basic greenhouse effect was understood by the mid-19th century."
Source: The Cornell Daily Sun
10-4-17
Russell Rickford led the chant “Free Palestine” just before the crowd took a knee at a protest.
Source: The Times of Israel
10-5-17
Institute of National Remembrance distances itself from Tomasz Panfilm, says his op-ed is "in no way compatible with historical knowledge."
Source: Harvard Gazette
10-3-17
After seven years, she’ll return to teaching and research in history after a sabbatical year.
Source: Real Clear Politics
10-4-17
by Luke A. Nichter
He says the tapes show Nixon’s Vietnam policy wasn’t solely motivated by his re-election prospects.
Source: The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
10-3-17
Yury Dmitriev is being tried behind closed doors.
Source: Politico
10-3-17
by Ronald Spector
They’re showing that the Vietnam War wasn’t an American story.
Source: NYT
10-2-17
When the woman, age 29, identified only as Jane Doe, reported Dr. Harris’s behavior to other professors and university officials, the complaint said, they turned a blind eye.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
10-3-17
by Jonathan Zimmerman
There’s one big reason that academic historians turn up their noses at his popular documentaries: sour grapes.
Source: The Redding Pilot
10-2-17
Women’s role in the Revolutionary War wasn’t acknowledged until many years after it took place.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
10-2-17
"I really enjoy talking to historians, for the most part, because there’s so much — this is going to sound elitist but it’s true — there’s just a basic ignorance about facts in American history.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
10-1-17
The MacArthur "genius" grant winner and author of "Ties That Bind” is digging into the history of slavery in Detroit.
Source: The Washington Post
10-1-17
by Cliff Sloan and Michael Waldman
This is their argument: History frowns on partisan gerrymandering.
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
10-2-17
“Because my grandfather was lynched for defending a black family from being lynched.”
Source: The Daily Beast
9-30-17
Bannon argues he is fighting the establishment by backing candidates like Roy Moore, but like the optimistic Communists of the early 1940s he’ll likely find that his time for gaining power is shorter than he believes.
Source: NYT
9-29-17
Volume two of Wallace’s magisterial history has just been published.
Source: The Star
10-2-17
When the master of the college arrived, Michael Marrus asked a black Junior Fellow: "You know this is your master, eh? Do you feel the lash?"
