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.
6-4-17
At issue: when the USA gained formal recognition as an independent country.
Source: Truthdig
6-2-17
Steven Hahn and other historians who seemed to be searching for reasons to belittle Blumenthal’s achievement must now dispel their doubts.
Source: Commentary
5-31-17
by Max Boot
"Bad history begets bad politics.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6-1-17
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, canceled all her public lectures this week following an onslaught of email threats after a commencement address she gave was posted by Fox News.
Source: The New Republic
6-1-17
Watergate experts are in high demand these days—and torn about it.
Source: The Clarion-Ledger
5-24-17
by Otis W. Pickett
"There is no value in celebrating an image that so deeply hurts my African-American brothers and sisters.”
Source: WSJ
5-31-17
by HR McMaster & Gary Cohn
"A determination to stand up for our people and our way of life deepens our friends’ respect for America."
Source: NYT
5-30-17
His history of the Algerian struggle for independence, “A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962” (1977), written at the suggestion of Harold Macmillan, the former British prime minister, won the Wolfson Prize.
Source: NYT
5-29-17
by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
In an op ed in the NYT he and Lynn Novick make the case that we need to understand Vietnam to understand ourselves.
Source: Jacobin
5-5-17
by Ilan Pappe
Israel is not the only democracy in the Middle East. In fact, it's not a democracy at all.
5-26-17
Why is free speech important at universities? Why is it under attack now? How can we nurture it?
Source: Politico
5-28-17
by Thomas E. Ricks
Save your reputation while you still can. The country will be fine, says Thomas Ricks.
Source: Time Magazine
5-25-17
by David Kaiser
Possibly the worst trauma of his life was when JFK died.
Source: NYT
5-25-17
Professor Bliss unraveled the story behind the discovery of the hormone, which transformed diabetes from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
Source: NPR
5-23-17
“All politics is really an argument about the relationship between the past and the future. And the more polarized our politics has become, the more polarized our past.”
Source: AHA
5-23-17
The administration is budgeting just enough money to shut down the agency and to honor pre-existing grant commitments.
Source: New Republic
5-23-17
by Diane Ravitch
"The Democratic Party has lost its way on public education."
Source: NYT
5-19-17
by Mark Moyar
Although a minority of professors welcomed a well-substantiated challenge to conventional wisdom, the collective hostility coalesced wherever I applied for an academic faculty position.
Source: Houston Chronicle
5-19-17
by Gene B. Preuss
HB 1776 would replace STAAR with a new requirement: Passing a citizenship exam.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
5-19-17
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