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 National
January 9, 2017
by Ellen Schrecker
An expert on the McCarthy Era, she writes from experience and research.
January 7, 2017
by Rick Shenkman
This ends for now a running campaign to put the AHA on record against Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
January 7, 2017
by Rick Shenkman
In one way at least Donald Trump was like all presidents since FDR: He made a lot of promises about what he'll do in the First 100 Days.
January 7, 2017
by Rick Shenkman
Why were the pundits wrong and what we can now expect.
January 7, 2017
An interview with Jennifer Polk of Beyond the Professoriate.
January 7, 2016
PhD programs emphasize research, but small schools that are hiring need people who can teach, says Kevin Gannon.
Source: Special to HNN
January 7, 2017
by Daniel Pope
Her friends mourn her loss about a year ago.
January 6, 2017
We asked an expert – Robert Townsend – why the number of history majors has been declining and why jobs for historians are disappearing.
January 6, 2017
We asked historians attending the annual convention of the American Historical Association. Their answers ranged from an assault on truth to serious violations of the Constitution.
January 6, 2017
We polled several historians. Here's what they told us. (No, not one said Hitler.)
January 6, 2017
The story of Mike Bowen, a PhD in history. He held nine one-year positions in three different states.
January 6, 2017
Stanley Fish versus historians.
January 5, 2017
We asked. They answered.
January 5, 2017
This video of Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), was made at the annual convention of the American Historical Association on January 5, 2017.
Source: Dawn
January 4, 2017
The president-elect who waged a campaign against global elites is turning to a man who knows most of them on a first-name basis.
Source: Algemeiner
January 4, 2017
These are the people who loved the movie and told her so.
Source: The Nation
January 4, 2017
He doubts there’s hard evidence Russia tried to put Trump in the White House.
Source: Flat Hill Blog
January 4, 2017
by Allen Mikaelian
Between academic years ending in 2014 and 2015, the number of bachelor’s degrees in history dropped by 9 percent, for the second year in a row.
Source: Real Clear Politics
January 2, 2017
“He has forgotten what the great iconic Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt always taught, and that is, you not only have to be an innovator of policy, have you to be a party-builder."
January 3, 2017
by Jennifer Freilach
It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds if you follow the path of these students who became college presidents.
