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 Atlantic
6-28-17
They were slaveholders, but there’s a big difference between them and the leaders of the Confederacy.
Source: CBC News
6-30-17
University of Calgary military historian David Bercuson says the Liberals are making a political calculation in toning down its focus on the military around the milestone birthday.
Source: Smithsonian
6-29-17
Thanks to a historian’s spidey sense, they’re now housed in a New York archive.
Source: Democracy Now
6-29-17
She is the author of "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6-26-17
In a new biography he says the Virginian was a leading liberal who eased the path of manumission.
Source: NYT
6-23-17
by Daniel K. Williams
They won’t win elections until they are able once again to establish a bond with voters with a religious bent.
Source: Harper’s Magazine
6-26-17 (accessed)
by Matthew Stevenson
The prose seldom rises above a high school paper.
Source: The Guardian
6-25-17
Of the 148 speakers at the Chalke Valley History Festival there are only 32 women, and just one non-white historian.
Source: NYT
6-23-17
by Eric Foner
The book is by English professor Fred Kaplan and was reviewed by Foner in the NYT.
Source: NYT
6-26-17
by Moshik Temkin
Historians have a role as pundits, he argues, but they have to resist the impulse to oversimplify the news.
Source: NYT
6-23-17
by Lonnie G. Bunch
"I see the nooses as evidence that … the struggle for the soul of America continues to this very day."
Source: TomDispatch
6-22-17
by Andrew J. Bacevich
The bestselling historian today is Bill O'Reilly? We are a far cry from the days of Carl Becker, the Beards, and Henry Adams.
Source: Historians Against Slavery
5-17-17
by Keri Leigh Merritt
What economists have proved is that the idea of white unity over black slavery and the Confederacy is nothing more than myth.
Source: The Atlantic
6-21-17
by Helena Iles Papaioannou
A critic chided me for claiming I'd made a discovery in the archives. Here's why I think it's fair to say it was indeed a discovery.
Source: Politico
6-21-17
Steve Bannon, H.R. McMaster, James Mattis – they all love Thucydides.
Source: The Washington Post
6-20-17
Dozens of international historians have come to the defense of a Holocaust scholar who is accused of slandering Poland’s reputation with research that focuses on the participation of some Poles in the killing of Jews during World War II.
Source: Foreign Policy
6-16-17
by Max Boot
A smart person wouldn't act like he's acting, says Boot.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
6-18-17
by Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi
The public appears to be experiencing a vacuum of expertise. Perhaps people will now bestow more trust on the expertise of America’s notoriously and proudly independent academics.
Source: The National Interest
6-17-17
by Robert Farley
This analysis suggests in the end it wasn’t worth the cost.
Source: Newsweek
6-17-17
Yes, social programs were cut back, but wasn’t this necessary to save the city’s financial base?
