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: AHA
1-17-17 (accessed)
The AHA has gathered data from more than 30 departments that grant history PhDs and, using that information, has created the only interactive, discipline-specific, and cross-institutional database of career outcomes for PhDs.
Source: The GW Hatchet
1-17-17
People mistakenly thought that GW was no longer teaching US history.
Source: Los Angeles Daily News
1-15-17
Starr, a former California State Librarian, researched and wrote “Americans and the California Dream,” a series of books considered the definitive account of the California story.
Source: The Seattle Times
1-15-17
“The greatest strategic threat the U.S. faces is the general ignorance of the past and how the past is with us every day,” said David Kohnen, interim executive director at the U.S. Naval War College Museum.
Source: The Guardian
1-14-17
Sixteen years after an English court discredited his work and the judge called him “antisemitic and racist”, the historian David Irving claims he is inspiring a new generation of “Holocaust skeptics.”
Source: Quartz
1-14-17
"Its success has been so hegemonic for so long it’s not surprising there’s a reaction against it."
Source: KXLF
1-13-17 (accessed)
by Tim Naftali
He notes that other presidents have declassified secrets before.
Source: The Spectator
1-14-17
by Hakim Adi
There were many African settlers in Britain even before the Romans, he says.
Source: AHA
1-12-17 (accessed)
The data point to continuing challenges for recent PhDs seeking academic appointments, with dozens of applicants competing for every entry-level job and unpredictable fluctuations in field-specific openings from year to year.
Source: NYT
1-11-17
by Max Boot i
“[It] is only one way to get to the bottom of this tawdry affair.”
Source: Forward
1-10-17
The answer is provided in a new book by historian Meron Medzini.
Source: Middle East Online
1-9-17
“We are in a trap. Our Palestinian leadership has led us blindly not intentionally into that trap.”
Source: The Los Angeles Times
1-10-17
UCLA spokeswoman Kathryn Kranhold said Piterberg would continue to teach his classes throughout the quarter but that his lectures would be videotaped for students who prefer not to attend in person.
Source: The Telegraph
1-9-17
Alex Bateman, a military historian, allegedly forged Christmas cards in a bid to steal a valuable logbook from the elderly widow of a Second World War hero captured during the 1943 "Dam Busters" mission.
Source: Inside Higher ED
1-10-17
Professors say even introductory courses should make students think like historians.
Source: Informed Comment
1-10-17
by Juan Cole
"Many of the people around Trump, who speak for him on television, who are tapped to advise him on national security, on the environment, on issues like net neutrality, also exhibit clear signs of psychopathy.”
Source: Politico
1-9-17
The media call her out for plagiarizing historian John Gaddis.
Images captured in the course of the annual convention of the AHA 2017.
Source: The Guardian
1-7-17
by Peniel E Joseph
The Obamas leave the White House, if not the world stage, having accomplished, through sheer force of will, something entirely unprecedented in American history: humanizing the black experience by simply being themselves.
Source: NY Review of Books
1-9-17 (accessed)
by Timothy Garton Ash
In a long article in the NYRB about Europe’s political problems, Timothy Garton Ash says it’s real and here’s how to define it.
