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 New Yorker
8-20-16
Documents show he supported the generals behind Argentina’s Dirty War.
Source: The State
8-21-16
"It is ironic that only a year after the Confederate battle flag was removed from the State House — after a heated public debate among South Carolinians over competing interpretations of our history — the academic major of history is in apparent decline among new freshmen at USC.” — Christine Caldwell Ames
Source: Forward
8-23-16
An instructor at Missouri State University has been arrested for allegedly murdering a Jewish retired professor by stabbing him to death in his living room in front of his wife.
Source: Real Clear Politics
8-25-16
It’s pushing her into a defensive crouch, he says.
Source: The Guardian
8-24-16
Homo Deus is an “end of history” book, but not in the crude sense that he believes things have come to a stop. Rather the opposite: things are moving so fast that it’s impossible to imagine what the future might hold.
Source: Letters to the Editor of the NYT
8-19-16
That depends who you ask as two Letters to the Editor of the NYT show.
Source: NYT
8-19-16
Professor Nolte, a respected German scholar of fascism, suggested in a 1986 essay that Nazism had been a logical response to the “existential threat” of the Russian Revolution.
Source: CRIENGLISH.com
8-17-16
Kurt Piehler, director of the Institute of World War II and the Human Experience with Florida State University, says a formal apology from Japan would go a long way toward creating a lasting peace in the region.
Source: Newsweek
8-17-16
He estimates that between 9,000 and 16,000 Indians were killed by vigilantes, state militiamen and federal soldiers between 1846 and 1873, mainly a result of the Gold Rush.
Source: The New Republic
8-17-16
They were corrupt to the core–but they were also incredibly effective.
Source: NYT
8-17-16
"We often hear about people’s lives which were destroyed by political oppression, but daily life was more nuanced.” — Historian Covell Meyskens.
Source: Mosaic Magazine
8-11-16
by Walter Laqueur
Birobidzhan was a “Jewish autonomous region” set up in the far east in 1928 to provide a home for Soviet Jewry.
Source: NYT
8-15-16
The decision, over a story about five Communist soldiers said to have fended off Japanese troops during World War II, continues a crackdown on dissenting views.
Source: The Daily Beast
8-12-16
by Michael Tomasky
This liberal says on the Daily Beast the question is what kind of foreign policy she’d pursue.
Source: FPRI
8-11-16
by Walter A. McDougall
"The travail of the U.S.S.R. and its satellites ought not to be counted as a clear and definitive victory for the United States and the American way of life." -- William McNeill in 1990
Source: Tom Dispatch
8-11-16
by William J. Astore
This is especially needed now that victory is elusive in wars that cost trillions.
Source: New Boston Post
8-11-16
In a guide for prospective panels a blog post on the website of The Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) says the key to having a prospective panel accepted for next year’s conference in Philadelphia is ensuring that it isn’t all white men.
Source: nj.com
8-10-16
The odd thing: There wasn’t one single photo that could be said to represent NJ.
Source: Philadelphia magazine
8-9-16
A Villanova professor wants access to the late Jack Pfeiffer’s full history of the disaster.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
8-9-16
by Jeremy Adelman
Historian Jeremy Adelman says historians may be overselling their usefulness. Besides, it’s hard to be relevant.
