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
October 3, 2016
"If someone said, Let’s make a movie about a historian, I’d say bo-ring.” — Deborah E. Lipstadt
Source: Inside Higher ED
September 30, 2016
Her new book: “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation
September 30, 2016
by Rick Shenkman
The list includes Conrad Black, Arthur Herman, Diana West and others.
Source: Radio Free Europe
September 29, 2016
We need to remember what happened “because memory is not just about history, it is about the future."
Source: Oregon Live
September 28, 2016
History suggests he's exploiting forces that generally drive populists.
Source: Press Release: The Zinn Education Project
September 29, 2016
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
September 29, 2016
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.
September 28, 2016
The opinions of Manisha Sinha, Juan Cole, Max Boot, Blair Kelley, Timothy Garton Ash, and others.
Source: Philly.com
September 28, 2016
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
September 22, 2016
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
September 27, 2016
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)
September 26, 2016
Members will be voting to confirm the election of Edward Ayers as president of the organization.
Source: The New Yorker
September 26, 2016
The Making and Knowing Lab is run by Columbia’s Center for Science and Society.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 25, 2016
by David M. Kennedy
"I was struck by how little difference there was between his public and private personae."
Source: Huffington Post
September 23, 2016
Meet the historian who just won a MacArthur genius award.
Source: Tacoma Weekly
September 26, 2016
“I was arrested in a Louisville, Ky. at a civil rights protest. That’s when they started my FBI file.”
Source: Daily Mail
September 23, 2016
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
September 23, 2016
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
September 23, 2016
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
September 23, 2016
He’s been predicting the outcome of presidential elections since 1984. He’s been right every time.
