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: Drew University
4-26-16 (accessed)
C. Wyatt Evans, professor at Drew University’s Caspersen graduate school, weighs in.
Source: The Washington Post
4-21-16
The former slave risked her life countless times, and even performed an ad hoc dental surgery on herself while on the road for the Underground Railroad, knocking her front tooth out with a pistol, says biographer Catherine Clinton.
Source: New Jersey On-Line
4-22-16
The Middletown High School South teacher was reportedly forced to resign after he showed his class a video by John Oliver.
Source: OUP Blog
4-22-16
In an interview he discusses what it was like to edit the American National Biography.
Source: Fine Books Magazine
4-2016
It’s a new position dedicated to serving as the top technical expert and adviser on the history of the Library of Congress
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
4-19-16
Irish scholar Liam Hogan has been tracking and debunking this reincarnated meme since he first saw it in 2013.
Source: Press Release
4-19-16
Organized to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the nation’s entry into the war in 1917, the project will bring members of the veteran community together with the general public in libraries and museums around the country to explore the transformative impact of the First World War.
Source: SFGate
4-18-16
It’s Stiles’ second Pulitzer; he won the award in 2010 for his biography “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.” That book, also published by Alfred A. Knopf, won the National Book Award in 2009.
Source: AHA Perspectives on History
4-18-16 (accessed)
The Future of the African American Past, a landmark conference featuring leading historians bringing fresh insights to long-standing questions about the field of African American history, will be held in Washington, DC, on May 19-21, 2016.
Source: Special to HNN
by Robert B. Townsend
More bad news: Progress in attracting women to the discipline has largely stalled—and among undergraduates actually reversed.
Source: Salon
4-16-16
How? Through bad trade policies.
Source: NYT
4-16-16
The acclaimed Cambridge classicist takes on everything from Internet stalkers to women’s rights.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
4-14-16
Jan Tomasz Gross, a Jewish Polish-born history professor based at Princeton University, was interrogated for hours.
Source: OUP Blog
4-12-16
In an interview he says legal historians now focus on how outsiders have remade the law.
Source: Press Release
4-14-16
The New York American Revolution Round Table named Fleming’s "The Great Divide, The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson that Still Divides America" the best book of 2015.
Source: Balkan Transitional Justice
4-13-16
Natasa Matausic, a historian who specialises in Croatia’s World War II history, said the country’s new culture minister Zlatko Hasanbegovic should apologise for past statements praising fascist fighters.
Source: Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)
4-13-16
by Antoon De Baets
The report contains 123 pages of news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially involving the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations.
Source: Daily Bruin
4-13-16
He was accused of sexual assault against two students.
Source: Newsweek
4-10-16
It was the collapse of a damn near LA in 1928 that left 500 dead
Source: The Blaze
4-10-16
“And how do we get to that good world is the question? A world without conflict. And to me, my interpretation of these words is it would be a world for the U.S. without whiteness, in terms of the power structure.” — James Harrison, Portland Community College
