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)
6-1-16
by Martin Kramer
He was often pilloried decades ago for his work, but events vindicated him, says Martin Kramer.
Source: NBC News
5-31-16
"I hope, through these really admirable individuals, this book will help educate."
Source: History Today
5-31-16
Historian Charles West disparages comments made by a UK Vice-Chancellor.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6-1-16
Then a British court confirmed many of her claims, though critics remain convinced she overstated her case.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
5-30-16
by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi imagines what whites would make of a building named after Osama bin Laden. Teaching tool?
5-27-16
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
5-27-16 (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
5-26-16
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
5-26-16
The book, out in July, will be published by Simon & Schuster.
Source: Washington College Press Release
5-25-16
The prize is for her book, “Join’d by Friendship, Crown’d by Love.”
Source: Monkey Cage (Washington Post)
5-25-16
"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
5-23-16
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
5-26-16
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
5-23-16
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
5-24-16
He objects to laws signed by Gov. Scott Walker that limited voting hours and require special ID to vote.
Source: Science World Report
5-24-16
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
5-22-16
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
5-22-16
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
5-22-16
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
5-18-16
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.
