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: WaPo
3-28-17
by Randy Barnett
A fight over originalism.
Source: The Washington Post
3-27-17
In a career that traversed law, journalism and education, Mr. Wilkins made matters of race and poverty central to his work as an assistant attorney general in the Johnson administration and later as one of the first black editorial board members at The Post and the New York Times.
Source: cleveland.com
3-28-17
The PBS documentarian announced Tuesday that he and two partners will make a two-part, four-hour film about the former heavyweight champ, who died last June.
Source: The Nation
3-28-17
by Jon Wiener
Well, they both disliked the media, but only Trump was undisciplined enough to come out and say it.
Source: WBUR
3-27-17
"By going for this crazy, difficult, complicated problem first — without knowing you had your own party behind you — I think it's just gonna cast a shadow on everything else."
Source: NYT
3-27-17
Christina Vella was the author of several colorful works of narrative history, notably “Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba,” a tale of wealth and scandal in 19th-century France and New Orleans.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-26-17
by Kevin Mattson
What we can learn from Lasch — and what we can’t.
Source: Lens (blog)
3-24-17
He demanded to know "Where are the African-Americans in this history book?"
Source: Huffington Post
3-24-17
And we’re on the verge of doing just that, says Yuval Noah Harari.
Source: Raw Story
3-24-17
Snyder told Maher Americans must defend institutions. Many anticipate that “the institution will save us” but Snyder said that this kind of thinking is wrong. “We have to save the institutions."
Source: NYT
3-26-17
Feng Chongyi, a Chinese-born professor at an Australian university who has often criticized Beijing’s crackdown on political dissent, has been barred from leaving China and is being questioned by state security officers as a suspected threat to national security.
Source: New York Magazine
3-19-17
It’s part of a larger problem: The assumption that real Americans are white people.
Source: NYT
3-24-17
Holmes is out with a memoir reflecting on his long career as a biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley, and others.
Source: Yahoo
3-23-17
Viking Cruises has launched a new Resident Historian Program.
Source: Common Dreams
3-22-17
"This is the most failed first 100 days of any president.”
Source: NYT
3-22-17
Maples received her bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., in 1954. She earned her master’s, in 1956, and her doctorate, in 1959 — both in colonial American history — from Bryn Mawr College.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
3-21-17
by Gil Troy
He includes among the culprits his own university’s student newspaper, as he writes in an Open Letter.
Source: Jacobin
3-21-17
Karp focuses on the international ambitions of slaveholders and their control over foreign policy.
Source: Process
3-20-17
by Jonathan Gienapp
That’s what this historian thinks.
Source: The Wheaton Record
3-20-17
"But I’m worried about the Christian populace at large listening all the time to their media go-to and never being concerned about folks who are trying to see things more broadly."
