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 Chronicle of Higher Education
5-6-16
The first woman president of Harvard says the move will enhance "principles of non-discrimination."
Source: The Los Angeles Times
5-8-16
by Max Boot
"Trump is an ignorant demagogue who traffics in racist and misogynistic slurs and crazy conspiracy theories."
Source: Basic Books
5-5-16
by Steve Fraser
In a wide-ranging interview he talks about his new book, Limousine Liberal, and the origins of Trumpian populism.
Source: NY Review of Books
5-3-16
by Timothy Snyder
"The preemptive liquidation of the museum is nothing less than a violent blow to the world’s cultural heritage."
Source: Foreign Policy
5-2-16
Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.
Source: Bradley Foundation press release
5-3-16
His books include Napoleon: A Life; Masters and Commanders: How Churchill, Roosevelt, Alanbrooke and Marshall Won the War in the West; and A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900.
Source: NYT
5-3-16
Professor Aaron was also the founding president of the Library of America, which has published 279 classic works.
Source: AHA Today
4-18-16
It’s downloaded 45,000 times a month.
Source: NYT
4-29-16
And that is not what’s most remarkable about this anti-fascist intellectual who battled Vichy.
Source: NYT
4-29-16
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
"The decision to name residential colleges for Benjamin Franklin and Anna Pauline Murray, a black civil rights activist, does nothing to redeem this wrong."
Source: City Lab
4-27-16
His maps show that the gradual decline of slavery in the north was matched by its explosive expansion in the south.
Source: Princeton University Press Blog
3-2-16
by Paula S. Fass
"I am proposing that our presidential candidates consider two years of required national service for all young Americans between 18 and 21 years of age."
Source: OUP Blog
4-29-16
Scott Seyforth and Nichole Barnes are unearthing this history through oral interviews.
4-28-16
by Mary Rizzo and Molly Rosner
Increasingly scholars like attending conferences where the agenda is created on the fly. Here’s an example.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4-24-16
by Aaron B. O’Connell
It’s made by Aaron B. O’Connell, a cultural historian at the US Naval Academy.
Source: The Daily Texan
4-27-16
Addressing his controversial record as former secretary of state, Henry Kissinger acknowledged “mistakes were made” by America in the Vietnam War but said he had no regrets about his actions in the war.
Source: Reddit
4-27-16
Ask Me Anything (AMA), she told them. They complied.
Source: reader supported news
4-21-16
True, he admits, he did file a lot of requests. But there was a reason.
Source: The Guardian
4-26-16
by Geoffrey Belknap
Crowdsourcing research by ‘non-specialists’ could help historians investigate big-data archives, says Geoffrey Belknap.
Source: Press Release -- Simon and Schuster
Historians James McPherson, Harold Holzer et al. are singing the praises of the first volume, which has just been published by Simon & Schuster.
