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
May 19, 2017
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
May 17, 2017
"One thing that is always an answer is: To build new monuments rather than tear down old ones."
Source: The Washington Post
May 17, 2017
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
May 18, 2017
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
May 18, 2017
University of Washington historian Vicente L. Rafael says the word slave might conjure up misleading images.
Source: Politico
May 17, 2017
by Jack Shafer
"The national security adviser’s fanboys are having a sad over his shilling for Baby Donald."
Source: News-Medical.Net
May 17, 2017
His research area? Sleep.
Source: Age of Revolutions
May 15, 2017
Here’s what people think of it now.
Source: National Endowment for the Humanities
May 1, 2017
by Martha C. Nussbaum
This is the transcript of the lecture she gave on May 1, 2017.
Source: NYT
May 15, 2017
Mr. Mahler, 81, is a former Marxist urban guerrilla who became an activist on the extreme right.
Source: cnsnews.com
May 10, 2017
They are thrilled with Garrow’s new portrait in "Rising Star."
Source: The Nation
May 11, 2017
by Greg Grandin
The historian is the author of a biography of Kissinger.
Source: The Atlantic
May 11, 2017
Does James Comey's Firing Have a Historical Precedent?
Source: The Atlantic
May 12, 2017
What they make of the dismissal of James Comes.
Source: project-syndicate.org
May 11, 2017
by Sean Wilentz
Why? Because the Congress is held by the GOP, unlike in Nixon’s day
Source: NYT
May 12, 2017
“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
May 10, 2017
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
May 10, 2017
"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
May 8, 2017
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
May 8, 2017
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.
