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 Conversation
October 18, 2016
Compared to both the male-dominated STEM disciplines, and other social sciences like philosophy and political science, Australian history has been remarkably feminised.
Source: Slate
October 18, 2016
Why? The rules favor the two party system.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
October 18, 2016
by Daniel Pipes
He cannot vote for Trump, but would be satisfied to have Mike Pence replace him.
Source: NYT
October 17, 2016
His work has shown that religion was one of the most powerful forces in traditional Chinese society.
Source: The Daily Texan
October 13, 2016
Brands has posted over 1,000 tweets chronicling past historical events such as the Dred Scott Case of 1857, the battle of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Watergate scandal of 1974.
Source: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
October 4, 2016
by Kevin Mattson
Why wouldn't he? “He saw voting as a form of personal self-expression and not a public choice."
October 14, 2016
by Robert Zaretsky
Marc Bloch can help us answer this question.
Source: The Guardian
October 12, 2016
"A miserable and short-sighted decision."
Source: The National Coalition for History
October 13, 2016 (accessed)
On August 15, NCH sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. urging him to provide the funding necessary to keep the JSC office open with the resources it needs.
Source: Moyers & Company
October 12, 2016
A writer about American culture reflects on Donald Trump and what his rise says about the state of American politics.
Source: Democracy Now
October 11, 2016
In an interview he also focused on the tragedy of Syrian refugees.
Source: NYT
October 10, 2016
A leading historian of Jewish rabbinical texts, Neusner published over 900 books devoted to compartative religion, history and legal theory.
Source: Historians Against War
October 10, 2016 (accessed)
The group says it's already got 75 signatures, including several from former AHA presidents.
Source: The Washington Post
October 7, 2016
by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur
Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur say there’s a perfect place for it … in Beaufort County, SC.
Source: Press Release
October 10, 2016
"There is much that our leaders could learn from Genghis Khan, but we generally consider ourselves to be morally superior to him and therefore remain unwilling to learn.”
Source: National post
October 5, 2016
Michael Danaher tortured him and stabbed him more than 30 times, killing him in order to steal the book, say police.
Source: Wonders and Marvels
October 6, 2016 (accessed)
"I first heard the story of Forsyth’s racial cleansing when I was seven years old, from kids on the school bus."
Source: Heatstreet
October 5, 2016
“It’s something that disturbs me because I believe that we’re a nation that gets other nations to tear down walls, not put them up.” — Matt Warshauer, history professor at Central Connecticut State University
Source: The Baffler
September 30, 2016
by Allison Miller
Empathy is the essence of academic historical methodology today. But in the episodes of Revisionist History that actually deal with history, people of the past come across as basically the same as we are today.
Source: National Book Awards
October 4, 2016
The winner will be announced in November. This is the list of semifinalists.
