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: Sandbox (Blog)
June 1, 2016
by Martin Kramer
He was often pilloried decades ago for his work, but events vindicated him, says Martin Kramer.
Source: NBC News
May 31, 2016
"I hope, through these really admirable individuals, this book will help educate."
Source: History Today
May 31, 2016
Historian Charles West disparages comments made by a UK Vice-Chancellor.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 1, 2016
Then a British court confirmed many of her claims, though critics remain convinced she overstated her case.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 30, 2016
by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi imagines what whites would make of a building named after Osama bin Laden. Teaching tool?
May 27, 2016
by Tim Grove and John Dichtl
The History Relevance Campaign, a three-year old effort in the history field to raise the profile of history in American society, joined forces with the Smithsonian Institution on May 24 for a day-long meeting.
Source: The Weekly Standard
May 27, 2016 (accessed)
by Reuel Marc Gerecht
"When you look back to when you were young, when you'd started studying Islam, what drove your curiosity?" Lewis's opening surprised me: "My profound sense of inferiority."
Source: AHA
May 26, 2016
by David Lowenthal
"Rescinding honors was imperial Rome’s damnatio memoriae: destroying or defacing statues, coins, arches, and documents that honored discredited rulers."
Source: Simon and Schuster
May 26, 2016
The book, out in July, will be published by Simon & Schuster.
Source: Washington College Press Release
May 25, 2016
The prize is for her book, “Join’d by Friendship, Crown’d by Love.”
Source: Monkey Cage (Washington Post)
May 25, 2016
"The biggest divide in 1968 was not the war in Vietnam, but rather race and growing white anxiety about the price they would have to pay for integration."
Source: The National Interest
May 23, 2016
by Paul Richard Huard
"I think Barack Obama is skeptical of the utility of grand strategy. Nevertheless, he has continued to adhere to what seems to be the underlying grand strategy that the United States has followed internationally since the end of the Cold War."
Source: Financial Times
May 26, 2016
First came the "Historians for Britain," who gave support to Brexit claims. Now it’s the turn of historians opposed to Brexit.
Source: Time Magazine
May 23, 2016
Pulitzer-Prize-winner Gilbert King discusses what happened to the 4 blacks accused of rape in 1949, the subject of his 2013 book and soon-to-be movie.
Source: CBS Minnesota
May 24, 2016
He objects to laws signed by Gov. Scott Walker that limited voting hours and require special ID to vote.
Source: Science World Report
May 24, 2016
In the novel, "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,” the historian warns that Artificial Intelligence will lead to a future class of useless humans.
Source: NYT
May 22, 2016
Mr. Garton Ash’s book “Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World” offers his thoughts on activism, limits and defying threats.
Source: The Washington Times
May 22, 2016
Luick-Thrams received his Ph.D. in modern European history in Berlin. Since then he has written or edited 15 books about Midwest cultural history and launched the TRACES Center for History and Culture, a nonprofit that documents Iowa’s connections to Nazi Germany.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
May 22, 2016
British historian and feminist Catherine Hall announced Sunday that she will withdraw her acceptance of an award allocated by Tel Aviv University for political reasons.
Source: NYT
May 18, 2016
His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong.
