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
September 6, 2016 (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
September 5, 2016
They were: Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" Yuval Noah Harari’s “Spaiens: A Brief History of Mankind.”
Source: The News and Observer
September 3, 2016
The book, “The Making of a Racist,” is part memoir, part history.
Source: The Financial Times
September 4, 2016
by Gillian Tett
It’s now getting the support of the US managing editor of the Financial Times.
Source: New Republic
August 30, 2016
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
August 31, 2016
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
September 1, 2016
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
August 31, 2016
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
August 31, 2016
Deng Xiaoping gets the credit, but shouldn’t.
Source: Process
August 31, 2016
He denies the claim of Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood that the discipline remains eclipsed.
Source: The American Historian (OAH)
August 24, 2016 (accessed)
by Nancy Cott
Her comments come in the wake of the nomination of Carla Hayden as the new Librarian of Congress.
Source: NYT
August 29, 2016
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
August 25, 2016
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
August 22, 2016
Yehudi Bauer says the Labour Party leader “has a problem” when it comes to Jews.
Source: NYT
August 23, 2016
Her prize discovery was memos that showed how Nelson Rockefeller hammered out the state’s official version of the tragedy.
Source: The New Yorker
August 29, 2016
He had to break in using a crow bar.
Source: Daily Kos
August 18, 2016
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
August 23, 2016
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
August 25, 2016
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
August 24, 2016
The idea was floated several weeks ago by Niall Ferguson and Graham Allison.
