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: Esquire
2-17-17
In an interview with Esquire Magazine she warns that the media have to call out Donald Trump for his lies.
Source: The Telegraph
2-17-17
“[T]he parties in the political middle and the centre are on the whole in favour of openness, in favour of trade and in favour of migration, but they’re squeezed from both the right and the left.”
Source: Haaretz
2-16-17
by Uri Misgav
But this doesn’t mean they’re getting the history they need to understand the world.
Source: NYT
2-15-17
It’s the theme of his latest book,"Homo Deus.”
Source: US Department of Justice
2-16-17
Henry Kamen, a British citizen currently residing in Barcelona, Spain, is a well-known historian and Professor of Spanish History, who resided within the Athens Division of the Middle District of Georgia.
Source: The Nation
2-15-17
"Bipartisan allegations that Trump is a “puppet” of or “compromised” by the Kremlin have grown into latter-day McCarthyism with grave threats to America and the world."
Source: Press Release (Washington College)
2-16-17
Authors include: Jane Kamensky, Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf, Michael J. Klarman, Alan Taylor, TH Breen, Mark Edward Lender, Garry Wheeler Stone, and Nathaniel Philbrick.
Source: Artsy
2-13-17
An art historian now holds one of the most important national security jobs in the country.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
2-14-17 (accessed)
by Masuda Hajimu
As he explains in this excerpt he argues that the actual divides of the Cold War existed not necessarily between the Eastern and Western blocs but within each society.
Source: Business Insider
2-13-17
"Maybe of all of the misconceptions, the greatest is that there’s a set of prescriptions, or a set of doctrines, even dogmas, that necessarily incline Muslims to take specific positions on politics." - Chase F. Robinson
Source: Slate
2-10-17
"Of course history never repeats itself. Democracy dies in different ways at different times.”
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
2-10-17
In an interview he says it would be a mistake for Trump to focus on ISIS in Syria since it’s the government that’s responsible for 90% of the deaths.
Source: Harvard Gazette
2-9-17
"Case-method history asks students to put themselves in the shoes of historical decision-makers and to try to wrestle with those decisions looking forward, as if the students were there at the time.”
Source: Time Magazine
2-8-17
by Edie S. Glaude
"The yearly ritual of Black History Month ideally strips away the illusions of our national myth. It is a 28-day refusal to turn the page."
Source: The Jewish Chronicle
2-7-17
French Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan is being sued by Muslim anti-racism groups for saying in a radio debate: “In French Arab families, babies suckle antisemitism with their mothers’ milk.”
Source: NYT
2-7-17
Mr. Todorov became prominent in the 1970s for his work on structuralism, a method of interpretation — influenced by cultural anthropology — that focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behavior.
Source: NYT
2-3-17
Ms. Ashton wrote sweeping histories and intimate studies devoted to individual artists, especially those in the world of Abstract Expressionism.
Source: NYT
2-8-17
A Parisian educated in France and the United States, Professor de La Grange was inspired to pursue his life's work after a Carnegie Hall concert in 1945.
Source: The Nation
2-8-17
by Richard Kreitner
His new book is about civil wars.
Source: philly.com
2-7-17
She tells the story in a new book, "Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.”
