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: n+1
5-19-17
by Daniel Bessner
He’s taken to task because he "clearly and unquestioningly embraces the premises that have supported the American empire since 1945.”
Source: Dallas News
5-17-17
"One thing that is always an answer is: To build new monuments rather than tear down old ones."
Source: The Washington Post
5-17-17
The topic’s explored in a new book, “Rebooting Social Studies: Strategies for Reimagining History Classes,” by Greg Milo, who taught high school social studies for 13 years.
Source: Deutsche Welle
5-18-17
Although Germany has been actively researching the Holocaust since the 1960s, it did not have any specific research professorships until now. Historian Sybille Steinbacher is about to change that.
Source: Crosscut
5-18-17
University of Washington historian Vicente L. Rafael says the word slave might conjure up misleading images.
Source: Politico
5-17-17
by Jack Shafer
"The national security adviser’s fanboys are having a sad over his shilling for Baby Donald."
Source: News-Medical.Net
5-17-17
His research area? Sleep.
Source: Age of Revolutions
5-15-17
Here’s what people think of it now.
Source: National Endowment for the Humanities
5-1-17
by Martha C. Nussbaum
This is the transcript of the lecture she gave on May 1, 2017.
Source: NYT
5-15-17
Mr. Mahler, 81, is a former Marxist urban guerrilla who became an activist on the extreme right.
Source: cnsnews.com
5-10-17
They are thrilled with Garrow’s new portrait in "Rising Star."
Source: The Nation
5-11-17
by Greg Grandin
The historian is the author of a biography of Kissinger.
Source: The Atlantic
5-11-17
Does James Comey's Firing Have a Historical Precedent?
Source: The Atlantic
5-12-17
What they make of the dismissal of James Comes.
Source: project-syndicate.org
5-11-17
by Sean Wilentz
Why? Because the Congress is held by the GOP, unlike in Nixon’s day
Source: NYT
5-12-17
“She raised the standard of the field by seamlessly weaving together the political, economic, diplomatic and social histories of late-20th-century United States history.”
Source: NYT
5-10-17
A British historian and associate of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher whose magisterial work chronicled great upheaval in the Hispanic world, from Spain’s imperial expansion to its civil war, Thomas died after a stroke.
Source: Process
5-10-17
"In our scholarly mission to validate the widest possible span of black subjects as intellectuals we must be courageous enough to challenge Western ways of knowing when those very structures so often invalidate these black feelings as an element of black knowledge."
Source: Vanderbilt University
5-8-17
Losing his mother at an early age—“11 and three quarters,” he said—gave him a focus that has lasted through his life.
Source: The Washington Examiner
5-8-17
Trump was livid after reading McMaster called South Korean officials to say Trump's statement that the American ally would have to pay for a missile defense system wasn't official policy.
