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: NYT
11-15-16
The New York Times calls James Stourton’s book "crisp and authoritative."
Source: The Washington Post
11-11-16
"This one is not based on a system; it's just my gut. They don't want Trump as president, because they can't control him. He's unpredictable.”
Source: PBS
11-11-16
"I think as a historian, what strikes one the most about this program is simply its nationalism.” -- Columbia University’s Adam Tooze
Source: Time Magazine
11-11-16
Eight experts weigh in.
Source: The Baffler
11-7-16
They’re really the disinherited.
Source: The Atlantic
11-10-16
The former secretary of state reflects on war, peace, and the biggest tests facing the next president.
Source: The Erie Reader
11-9-16
In an interview she says the challenge for populist presidents is to figure out how to address problems concretely.
Source: NYT
11-9-16
Yaffa Eliach, who as a 4-year-old survived the Nazi massacres of Jews in her Lithuanian town, went on to document their daily life in a kaleidoscopic book and a haunting, three-story canyon of photographs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-9-16
There is truth in the conservative intellectuals’ claim that Trump hijacked conservatism. It is also true that despite its principled origins, conservatism birthed Trump.
Source: Notches
11-8-16
by David Clark
A fresh assessment calls into question much of the criticism, says David Clark.
11-8-16
Beverly Gage, Ken Burns, Juan Cole, Emily Charnock, Blair Kelley, Gil Troy, Jack Censer, and many more!
Source: The Cornell Daily Sun
11-4-16
“The old cross-denominational coalition of the religious right, one that had been in place since the 1970s has been deeply fragmented.”
Source: The Boston Globe
11-4-16
Steven Bullock says one reason is we’ve forgotten how to be polite.
Source: The New Yorker
11-4-16
Ruth Ben-Ghiat recently wrote a book about Benito Mussolini.
Source: The Seattle Times
11-3-16
The company said in a statement Thursday that Christopher Kopper, a history professor at Bielefeld University in Germany, has been commissioned to “clarify” what role it played.
Source: AHA Today
10-26-16
Lichtenstein is professor of history at Indiana University, where he teaches US and South African history.
11-2-16
by Joe Starita
Joe Starita says her complex story allows us to see the West in a new way.
Source: NYT editorial
11-2-16
75 prominent German academics accused Volkswagen of a vindictive punishment.
Source: Aeon
11-2-16
by Neville Morley
University of Exeter's Neville Morley weighs in on the suggestion by Niall Ferguson that the White House set up a council of historians.
Source: Time Magazine
11-1-16
“Do we need her now?” Cook asks. “Yes we do!”
