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
April 21, 2017
“The fulcrum of American history is profound in places like the Great Plains and Minnesota.”
Source: dailytarheel.com
April 21, 2017
“[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
April 24, 2017 (accessed)
by Robert Darnton
Conservatives are denouncing it.
Source: NYT
April 22, 2017
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
April 18, 2017
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
April 21, 2017 (accessed)
Robert Jordan’s digital history course at Colorado State University is not like any other history class.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 21, 2017
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
April 18, 2017
Professor Lars Maischak sent the tweet on Feb. 18. It's been a bumpy road for him ever since.
Source: Philly.com
April 19, 2017
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
April 19, 2017 (accessed)
A conversation.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
April 18, 2017
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
April 14, 2017
Chauncey is leaving Yale for Columbia.
Source: Politico
April 13, 2017
The professor’s last prediction came true (he predicted Trump’s election) .
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 12, 2017
“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
April 11, 2017
It’s "The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For,” a collection of his talks.
Source: Michigan News
April 10, 2017
The answer is Heather Ann Thompson for her book on the Attica Prison uprising.
Source: People's World
April 11, 2017
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
April 11, 2017
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
April 7, 2017
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
April 7, 2017
Ever since he was a young boy, hockey has been a defining factor in Bruce Berlund's life.
