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: AHA
9-6-16 (accessed)
Undergraduate enrollment in all history courses in 2014–15 was 7.6 percent lower than it had been in 2012–13.
Source: Israel Hayom
9-5-16
They were: Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" Yuval Noah Harari’s “Spaiens: A Brief History of Mankind.”
Source: The News and Observer
9-3-16
The book, “The Making of a Racist,” is part memoir, part history.
Source: The Financial Times
9-4-16
by Gillian Tett
It’s now getting the support of the US managing editor of the Financial Times.
Source: New Republic
8-30-16
by Laura Marsh
William Strauss and Neil Howe, a popular-historian duo, coined the term “millennial” in 1987, to refer to the children who would graduate high school in the year 2000.
Source: Harvard Gazette
8-31-16
History has also helped her understand that “things could have been otherwise” and that “we have the power to make things otherwise.”
Source: reason.com
9-1-16
by Jesse Walker
"One of the best things about history as a discipline is that it doesn't pretend to be a predictive science—or, indeed, to be any sort of science at all. That isn't a flaw; it's self-awareness."
Source: Foreign Policy
8-31-16
by Jean Edward Smith
"The errors [the reviewer] claims to have found in the biography exist not in the book but in his review."
Source: Asia Society
8-31-16
Deng Xiaoping gets the credit, but shouldn’t.
Source: Process
8-31-16
He denies the claim of Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood that the discipline remains eclipsed.
Source: The American Historian (OAH)
8-24-16 (accessed)
by Nancy Cott
Her comments come in the wake of the nomination of Carla Hayden as the new Librarian of Congress.
Source: NYT
8-29-16
by Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood
The topic is everywhere in the news, but it has disappeared from college campuses, complain Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood.
Source: The Post
8-25-16
When associate history professor Robert Ingram announced to his Western Civilization class that there would be no textbook required, he said he was met with a sigh of relief.
Source: The Algemeiner
8-22-16
Yehudi Bauer says the Labour Party leader “has a problem” when it comes to Jews.
Source: NYT
8-23-16
Her prize discovery was memos that showed how Nelson Rockefeller hammered out the state’s official version of the tragedy.
Source: The New Yorker
8-29-16
He had to break in using a crow bar.
Source: Daily Kos
8-18-16
Speaker Paul Ryan apparently has a penchant for the work of the notorious “historian” and Christian nationalist David Barton. Once again illustrating just how rotten Ryan’s judgment can be.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
8-23-16
Networking, subscriptions to journals, the opportunity to present at and attend conferences -- membership in a professional association offers lots of benefits. But should access to third-party liability insurance be one of them?
Source: Vice
8-25-16
by Adam Kirk Edgerton
"How much will Obergefell v. Hodges and United States v. Windsor matter 10 years from now if children never learn about those Supreme Court cases in class?"
Source: The Washington Times
8-24-16
The idea was floated several weeks ago by Niall Ferguson and Graham Allison.
