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
June 28, 2017
They were slaveholders, but there’s a big difference between them and the leaders of the Confederacy.
Source: CBC News
June 30, 2017
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
June 29, 2017
Thanks to a historian’s spidey sense, they’re now housed in a New York archive.
Source: Democracy Now
June 29, 2017
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
June 26, 2017
In a new biography he says the Virginian was a leading liberal who eased the path of manumission.
Source: NYT
June 23, 2017
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
June 26, 2017 (accessed)
by Matthew Stevenson
The prose seldom rises above a high school paper.
Source: The Guardian
June 25, 2017
Of the 148 speakers at the Chalke Valley History Festival there are only 32 women, and just one non-white historian.
Source: NYT
June 23, 2017
by Eric Foner
The book is by English professor Fred Kaplan and was reviewed by Foner in the NYT.
Source: NYT
June 26, 2017
by Moshik Temkin
Historians have a role as pundits, he argues, but they have to resist the impulse to oversimplify the news.
Source: NYT
June 23, 2017
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
June 22, 2017
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
May 17, 2017
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
June 21, 2017
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
June 21, 2017
Steve Bannon, H.R. McMaster, James Mattis – they all love Thucydides.
Source: The Washington Post
June 20, 2017
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
June 16, 2017
by Max Boot
A smart person wouldn't act like he's acting, says Boot.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
June 18, 2017
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
June 17, 2017
by Robert Farley
This analysis suggests in the end it wasn’t worth the cost.
Source: Newsweek
June 17, 2017
Yes, social programs were cut back, but wasn’t this necessary to save the city’s financial base?
