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
10-31-16
by Tim Naftali
“While ‘Emailgate' is no Watergate, there are some noteworthy echoes."
Source: Special to HNN
10-31-16
by Elisabeth M. Marsh
A summary of the October meeting of the History Relevance Campaign.
Source: Gulf News
10-27-16
Kershaw — the acclaimed biographer of Hitler — insists that drawing parallels with the rise of fascism is off the mark.
Source: The Washington Post
10-28-16
He would change his mind, he says, if polls show Gary Johnson can’t win 5 % or more of the vote.
Source: The Michigan Daily
10-24-16
She argues in her book on Attica that the slow downfall and ultimate economic collapse of Detroit began with the crime law he signed.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
10-6-16
The author will recount the story through generations of extraordinary families that explored and settled the Northwest Territory. The book will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2019.
Source: Basic Books
11-11-16
by Douglas Egerton
Sorry, but the movie “Glory” gets the story wrong in one significant way.
Source: Network of Concerned Historians
10-25-16
by Antoon De Baets
She's accused of defaming a Greek family whose patriarch served in the quisling government of Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Rallis.
Source: The Advocate
10-26-16
by Jim Downs
It’s time this changes, he says, in an article written for LGBT History Month (October).
Source: Huffington Post
10-25-16
He says the trial was unfair and no evidence exists implicating her in a crime, rumors notwithstanding.
Source: NY Review of Books
10-24-16 (accessed)
by Garry Wills
It’s who they’re friends with.
10-21-16
by Jennifer Freilach
We asked them to tell us what drew them to their subjects. These are their answers.
Source: The Spectator
10-22-16
The secretive Byzantine specialist liked to play games with people all his life — including Guy Burgess and most of the crowned heads of Europe, according to Minoo Dinshaw.
Source: Democracy Now
10-20-16
"There’s no individual predecessor to Trump, really, but there are precedents, and he didn’t just come out of the blue." -- Eric Foner
Source: USA Today
10-20-16
WETA, the PBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., has optioned the rights to "The Gene: An Intimate History," Siddhartha Mukherjee's expansive book on the human genetics, published in May, with Burns attached as producer.
Source: Haaretz
10-19-16
The Benny Morris of 2016 seems to be doing what he once accused the 'old historians' of doing – interpreting history and downplaying Israeli misdeeds in order to defend Israel’s legitimacy.
Source: Foreign Policy
10-18-16
The party of principled conservatism, of promoting freedom at home and abroad, has become a party of conspiracy-mongering, authoritarianism, and white power.
10-19-16
by HNN
Signers include Ron Radosh, Richard Pipes, Michael Burlingame, Thomas Mallon, and Max Boot.
Source: Organization of American Historians (Press Release)
10-19-16
Irvin replaces Edward T. Linenthal, who recently retired in July 2016 after serving as OAH Executive Editor since 2005.
Source: NYT
10-18-16
by Daina Ramey Berry
Returning these body parts to descendants, or at least granting them a respectful burial, will help our nation heal from the sin of slavery and its ugly afterlife.
