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 Chronicle of Higher Education
10-3-16
"If someone said, Let’s make a movie about a historian, I’d say bo-ring.” — Deborah E. Lipstadt
Source: Inside Higher ED
9-30-16
Her new book: “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation
9-30-16
by Rick Shenkman
The list includes Conrad Black, Arthur Herman, Diana West and others.
Source: Radio Free Europe
9-29-16
We need to remember what happened “because memory is not just about history, it is about the future."
Source: Oregon Live
9-28-16
History suggests he's exploiting forces that generally drive populists.
Source: Press Release: The Zinn Education Project
9-29-16
The Zinn Education Project is launching a new website — zinnedproject.org/ABOLISH — to help schools and communities introduce legislation to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.
Source: Press Release: Library of Congress
9-29-16
Widmer was a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University from 1993-1997. He briefly left academia to serve as special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and director for speechwriting at the National Security Council under Bill Clinton.
9-28-16
The opinions of Manisha Sinha, Juan Cole, Max Boot, Blair Kelley, Timothy Garton Ash, and others.
Source: Philly.com
9-28-16
Men and women together in class is as much a part of college life today as final exams and grade-point averages. Half a century ago, that wasn't the case at many elite colleges.
Source: Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education
9-22-16
by Peter Feinman
She contrasted the Law School shield with the Confederate flag: the former was not created and has not been viewed as a symbol of slavery.
Source: The Guardian
9-27-16
Declassified MI5 records reveal party member thought leaders misled rank and file over Stalin’s crimes at height of cold war.
Source: Organization of American Historians (email)
9-26-16
Members will be voting to confirm the election of Edward Ayers as president of the organization.
Source: The New Yorker
9-26-16
The Making and Knowing Lab is run by Columbia’s Center for Science and Society.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
9-25-16
by David M. Kennedy
"I was struck by how little difference there was between his public and private personae."
Source: Huffington Post
9-23-16
Meet the historian who just won a MacArthur genius award.
Source: Tacoma Weekly
9-26-16
“I was arrested in a Louisville, Ky. at a civil rights protest. That’s when they started my FBI file.”
Source: Daily Mail
9-23-16
Pulitzer prize-winning historian Saul Friedlander, a world authority on the Holocaust, said Friday he would leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.
Source: NYT
9-23-16
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The museum helps resolve the protracted debate about the contributions of black people to American history and, indeed, about whether they had a history worth preserving at all.
Source: NYT
9-23-16
A World War IIveteran of the German army who argued as a historian that the German people had to take responsibility for the rise of Nazism because of their embrace of Hitler and his racist agenda, he died on Monday in Bonn.
Source: The Washington Post
9-23-16
He’s been predicting the outcome of presidential elections since 1984. He’s been right every time.
