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: Raw Story
3-14-16
“[W]e can’t pretend now that a phenomenon of the kind of racial innuendo that’s happening right now is somehow new and we’re shocked, shocked that this is happening.”
Source: The Guardian
3-14-16
Author and first female Slade professor of art published 24 novels including Hotel du Lac, which won her the Booker prize in 1984
Source: Inside Higher ED
3-14-16
Number of bachelor's degrees awarded fell 8.7 percent between 2012 and 2014, study finds.
Source: St. Catharines Standard
3-11-16
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, acting associate dean of graduate studies at Brock University, is accused of getting a female student drunk and taking advantage of her.
Source: NYT
3-12-16
by NYT Editorial
But the Times says in an editorial it’s in jeopardy because of Illinois’s budget woes.
Source: The Washington Post
3-9-16
This was his answer.
Source: The Daily Orange
3-9-16
Sally Roesch Wagner said the appeal of the impersonation for students is the ability to engage firsthand with the material.
Source: Daily Bruin
3-9-16
The 2011 Fukushima disaster prompted Katsuya Hirano, a history professor, to investigate what he thinks is purposeful coordination between the government, major media outlets and energy companies to profit from nuclear energy despite the risks.
Source: The College Fix
3-10-16
Scott Hancock, a history and Africana studies associate professor at Gettysburg College, recently helped galvanize opposition to an inaugural Confederate flag rally at the historic Gettysburg battlefield near the school.
Source: Princeton University Press Blog
by Fawaz A. Gerges
He warns it poses a serious ongoing threat to the West.
Source: Imperial & Global Forum
3-8-16
by Gil Shohat
It wasn't Howard Zinn who came up with the concept of people's history. It was these folks: Marxists.
Source: Princeton University Press Blog
3-8-16
The celebrated author of books about Indian-white relations says he’s returning to an old love.
Source: Duke Today
3-7-16
“His scholarship helped illuminate the history of Duke University from its founding to the present, while his books on the American South informed a generation of American historians."
Source: The Daily Beast
3-4-16
by Mitchell Yockelson
The book is by Mitchell Yockelson, an archivist at the National Archives.
3-6-16
by Omer Bartov
Timothy Synder’s Black Earth collapses under the sheer weight of his ambitions.
Source: Omaha World-Herald
3-3-16
Barry Jurgensen is making the journey both to honor the two women and to raise awareness about modern-day slavery, in the form of sex trafficking.
Source: FOX 8
3-4-16
Bart D. Ehrman’s latest book is “Jesus Before the Gospels."
Source: TomDispatch
3-3-16
by Tom Engelhardt
This is outrageous says TomDispatch historian Tom Engelhardt.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
3-2-16
Students and other members of the UCLA community gather on the Westwood campus to protest the university's handling of sexual harassment complaints made against history professor Gabriel Piterberg.
Source: Huffington Post
6-15-15
by Thomas A. Foster
"My new book, Women in Early America , features 11 new essays by leading historians, all of which testify to the remarkable lives that we are still only just beginning to uncover."
