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: Quartz
March 6, 2017
They include: war, revolution, state collapse, and deadly pandemics.
Source: The Eagle
March 4, 2017
Cobb sees a connection (though not cause and effect) between Donald Trump’s candidacy and Dylan Roof’s murder of 9 black churchgoers.
Source: Aeon
March 2, 2017
by Jeremy Adelman
Historians cheered globalism with work about cosmopolitans and border-crossing, but the power of place never went away.
Source: Common Dreams
March 3, 2017
Legislation from Rep. Kim Hendren would keep historian's works from all public and charter schools.
Source: People's World
March 3, 2017
“Her work has affected scholars outside her field into the historical consciousness—the real measure of her legacy as a historian.” – Eric Foner
March 3, 2017
by Fred Greenbaum and Robert Parmet
He authored many books including a highly regarded biography of the first President Bush.
Source: New-York Historical Society and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
March 2, 2017
The prize, awarded by the New-York Historical Society and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, is for his book, "The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 2, 2017
How Craig Steven Wilder exposed higher education's past.
Source: WUNC
February 28, 2017
Franklin was a world-renowned scholar of African American history who died in 2009.
March 1, 2017
Manisha Sinha, Joshua Zeitz, Khalil Muhammad, Eric Metaxas, Blair Kelley, Eliot Cohen, Kevin Kruse, and many more.
Source: Harvard Gazette
February 28, 2017
It’s hosting a day-long symposium to investigate slavery and universities.
Source: NYT
February 28, 2017
A Cambridge-educated historian of Greco-Roman antiquity, he was the soft-spoken visionary behind the revival of the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
Source: The GW Hatchet
February 26, 2017
The George Washington University historian passed away at age 73.
Source: NYT
February 24, 2017
Lowi was a venerated political scientist who challenged conventional scholarship on presidential power and identified the emergence of what he called “interest-group liberalism.”
Source: The Hill
February 23, 2017
Unlike others in the Trump administration, he's known for telling it like it is.
Source: CNN
February 26, 2017
by Fareed Zakaria
On his TV show Zakaria devoted two segments in two weeks to Hamilton’s masterful account of World War II.
Source: NYT
February 26, 2017
Henry Rousso, a French historian and one of the most pre-eminent scholars on the Holocaust, said he was detained for more than 10 hours by federal border agents in Houston and told he would not be allowed to enter the United States before lawyers intervened to stop his deportation.
Source: The Washington Post
February 24, 2017
by Phillip Carter
Trump's new adviser will need to avoid the Vietnam-era mistakes he studied, says former Army officer.
Source: Democracy Now
February 21, 2017
She taught at New York University for 35 years and was a pioneering historian of U.S. foreign relations.
Source: NYT
February 20, 2017
General McMaster is author of the highly respected book, "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam." He chided the Bush administration for the Iraq War.
