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: The Paris Review
April 10, 2017 (accessed)
“When will the next book be published?”
Source: WTSP
April 9, 2017
History professor Lars Maischak sent out two tweets in February. The first said: "To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better. #TheResistance #DeathToFascism".
Source: KSDK
April 9, 2017
Stephen Kissel lost his sight as a teenager, but he never lost sight of his goals.
Source: AHA
April 10, 2017 (accessed)
by Paul B. Sturtevant
Fighting myths with data.
Source: Viking
April 7, 2017
by Alec Ryrie
“The first Protestants didn’t set out to create the world we live in now, but some key features of that world come directly from them.”
Source: NYT
April 7, 2017
by Roderick MacFarquhar
The surprise? MacFarquhar thinks a deal is possible.
April 7, 2017
No, they aren't in agreement.
April 7, 2017
What happens when historians are called to testify in court cases.
April 6, 2017
What's happening at the annual meeting being held in New Orleans.
Source: Yale Daily News
April 6, 2017
Until the early 2000s, the history major was the largest at Yale before its popularity began to wane, which History Director of Undergraduate Studies Alan Mikhail said was consistent with a national trend.
Source: NYT
April 6, 2017
by Michael Kazin
Wilson’s late entry into the Great War changed history — and not necessarily for the better.
Source: The Daily Beast
April 5, 2017
Garrow berates the media for not digging deeply into Obama’s past. Did you know he wrote a book in law school?
Source: The Los Angeles Times
April 4, 2017
by Max Boot
In an op ed for the LA Times he counts the ways Trump has gone where no president has before.
Source: Cambridge Network
April 5, 2017
A new biography released later this month sets out the true nature of screen comedian Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with fascism – one which was far from black and white.
Source: NYT
April 4, 2017
Witt redrew the map of the Renaissance through influential studies that identified the first stirrings of Italian humanism in a period well before the birth of its traditional father, Petrarch.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
April 4, 2017
by Daniel Pipes
In an article for National Review Pipes embraces Niall Ferguson’s indictment of the profession, saying it’s been hollowed out by scholars who focused on gender and culture.
Source: The New Yorker
April 4, 2017 (accessed)
He wanted to leave his body to science.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 2, 2017
by Johanna Hanink
The issue is that public conversation is lacking a diversity of opinions and perspectives not only on the usual big-book topics — "the invention of the West," "how X civilization rose and fell," etc. — but also on what kind of topics deserve having big books written about them.
Source: Slate
April 3, 2017
"I was struck by the fact that the two sides of him seemed to mirror the two sides of his parents."
March 30, 2017
by Kevin M. Kruse
In a series of tweets he lays out the history, which goes back to the nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice.
