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.
January 2, 2017
A tribute to a wonderful historian and friend of HNN.
Source: The Cambridge Student
January 1, 2017
A history student doing research on a landscape artist in the Renaissance turned up evidence suggesting he was a spy (sort of) for the Medici.
January 3, 2016
by Rick Shenkman
What happened at the AHA this year!
Source: Vox
December 29, 2016
“We are not a people to whom ... limits don’t apply.” —Andrew Bacevich
Source: NewsWorks
December 28, 2016
by Jonathan Zimmerman
"Got that? If you dislike the tweet about genocide by George Cicccariello-Maher, it must be because you harbor some kind of racist or even genocidal impulses yourself."
Source: Haaretz
December 20, 2016
Georges Bensoussan's statements were 'dangerous and in line with far-right rhetoric' targeting Muslims, according to the Collective Against Islamophobia.
Source: Quartz
December 27, 2016
Historians of the future will likely ask how and why Donald Trump’s election victory was possible—as well as why so many supposedly clever people really, really didn’t see it coming.
Source: Informed Comment
December 27, 2016
by Juan Cole
"Just as he established diplomatic relations with Cuba, so he could do the same with regard to Palestine."
Source: Independent
December 27, 2016
Kissinger proposes we swap support for Crimea takeover for Russian agreement to withdraw troops from rest of Ukraine.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio
December 22, 2016
Jon Grinspan, a Smithsonian historian, reports in his new book that young people voted en masse in wild and spectacular fashion, and were by far the most coveted demographic in politics.
Source: Press Release – Business History Conference
December 22, 2016
The Business History Conference is the largest professional organization of business historians in the United States.
Source: Quartz
December 20, 2016
The suspended teacher was, according to her original letter explaining the assignment to students, trying “not to teach the students the Klan was correct in their behavior, but rather to teach the students to write persuasively.”
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
December 20, 2016
'Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen,' Kissinger said on 'Face the Nation.'
Source: NYT
December 19, 2016
by Karen L. Cox
"My state was once a bastion of Southern progressivism. Now it’s a battleground in the war of urban versus rural voters.”
Source: The Boston Globe
December 15, 2016
The discovery is based on digitized newspaper archives.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
December 19, 2016 (accessed)
by Daniel Pipes
Paelstinians in the end will be better off if they fail in their campaign to discredit the Israeli state.
Source: The way of improvement leads home
December 15, 2016
by John Fea
In an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Ed he says: "Diversity as a social goal and aim of social reform is an excellent thing. But identity politics today isn’t about group belonging; it’s about personal identity."
Source: Press Release
December 15, 2016
The case involves the paper’s report that the US naval victory at Midway 6 months after Pearl Harbor was won by cracking Japan’s secret naval code.
Source: NYT
December 15, 2016
William B. Jordan, the art historian, said that he took his painting to the Prado’s art experts last year to have it authenticated after acquiring it in an auction in 1988.
Source: NYT
December 14, 2016
by Gregory P. Downs, Eric Foner, Kate Masur
"This is a crucial time to commemorate Reconstruction.”
