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
4-10-17 (accessed)
“When will the next book be published?”
Source: WTSP
4-9-17
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
4-9-17
Stephen Kissel lost his sight as a teenager, but he never lost sight of his goals.
Source: AHA
4-10-17 (accessed)
by Paul B. Sturtevant
Fighting myths with data.
Source: Viking
4-7-17
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
4-7-17
by Roderick MacFarquhar
The surprise? MacFarquhar thinks a deal is possible.
4-7-17
No, they aren't in agreement.
What happens when historians are called to testify in court cases.
4-6-17
What's happening at the annual meeting being held in New Orleans.
Source: Yale Daily News
4-6-17
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
4-6-17
by Michael Kazin
Wilson’s late entry into the Great War changed history — and not necessarily for the better.
Source: The Daily Beast
4-5-17
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
4-4-17
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
4-5-17
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
4-4-17
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
4-4-17
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
4-4-17 (accessed)
He wanted to leave his body to science.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4-2-17
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
4-3-17
"I was struck by the fact that the two sides of him seemed to mirror the two sides of his parents."
3-30-17
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.
