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: Minn Post
4-21-17
“The fulcrum of American history is profound in places like the Great Plains and Minnesota.”
Source: dailytarheel.com
4-21-17
“[W]e believe that the College took this action to block broader understanding of the recent scandals in UNC’s major intercollegiate athletic programs."
Source: NY Review of Books
4-24-17 (accessed)
by Robert Darnton
Conservatives are denouncing it.
Source: NYT
4-22-17
Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who has studied the genocide for decades by piecing together documents from around the world to establish state complicity in the killings, says he has unearthed an original telegram that confirms authorities knew what was happening.
Source: Time Magazine
4-18-17
He's said he does not read history, or presidential biographies, because, as he said, he has a mind that can reach beyond all that. That’s utter nonsense."
Source: Colorado State University
4-21-17 (accessed)
Robert Jordan’s digital history course at Colorado State University is not like any other history class.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4-21-17
The decision to allow a scholar with views seen as aiding white supremacy to write a book review has sparked commentary about who in the academy gets called on to contribute.
Source: USA Today
4-18-17
Professor Lars Maischak sent the tweet on Feb. 18. It's been a bumpy road for him ever since.
Source: Philly.com
4-19-17
by Jonathan Zimmerman
"I'm a liberal Democrat. But I'm also an advocate for unbridled free speech, which makes me a ‘conservative' on many college campuses these days."
Source: Princeton Alumni Weekly
4-19-17 (accessed)
A conversation.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4-18-17
by Scott Jaschik
Many historians are outraged. The AHR has decided not to pull the review. Instead, it's commissioned a new one.
Source: Yale Daily News
4-14-17
Chauncey is leaving Yale for Columbia.
Source: Politico
4-13-17
The professor’s last prediction came true (he predicted Trump’s election) .
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4-12-17
“With 28 followers on Twitter at the time, I never expected them to be read by anyone but a close circle of acquaintances who would know to place them in their context.”
Source: The Buffalo News
4-11-17
It’s "The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For,” a collection of his talks.
Source: Michigan News
4-10-17
The answer is Heather Ann Thompson for her book on the Attica Prison uprising.
Source: People's World
4-11-17
In an interview he says writing what Nietzsche called “critical” history is itself an act of opposition – and very much needed in the age of Trump.
Source: NYT
4-11-17
by Rick Perlstein
In an article in the NYT Magazine he writes that the history of conservatism has to be rewritten to include "political surrealists and intellectual embarrassments, its con artists and tribunes of white rage.”
Source: Time Magazine
4-7-17
In January, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History announced that Theresa McCulla would be the Smithsonian's new "brewing historian." For National Beer Day, TIME talked to her about what's brewing on the research front.
Source: MLive
4-7-17
Ever since he was a young boy, hockey has been a defining factor in Bruce Berlund's life.
