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: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
3-1-16
The list includes Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad.
Source: NYT
3-1-16
His death has revived the questions he posed.
Source: NPR
2-16-16
His name was J. Marion Sims and he experimented on black female slaves.
Source: Reuters
2-27-16
Presidential candidate Donald Trump admires the late Douglas MacArthur and George Patton, but military historians and retired generals say Trump has an inflated view of the two military men and especially their relevance to an era of modern warfare.
Source: Harvard Gazette
2-25-16
“This is not about retribution and anger, it’s about atonement; it’s about the building of bridges across lines of moral justice,” said Sir Hilary Beckles, a distinguished historian from Barbados who made the case for reparations during a talk at Harvard Law School this week.
Source: Breitbart
2-28-16
Writing in the Sunday Times (of London) today, Thatcherite professor and Mitt Romney backer Niall Ferguson has claimed that the populism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump needs to be “stamped” on.
Source: New York Magazine
2-18-16
Representative Dan Fisher, who introduced the bill, lamented during Monday's hearing that the new AP U.S. History framework emphasizes "what is bad about America" and doesn't teach "American exceptionalism."
Source: Gawker
2-25-16
Jim Downs's book exists to highlight the nuance, the richness, and even the messiness of people’s lives by offering an alternate history of gay life in the ‘70s.
Source: NYT
2-24-16
A retired faculty member of the University of Michigan, Professor Eisenstein was renowned for “The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe,” first published in 1979.
Source: The Harvard Crimson
2-25-16
Members of the History Department remain divided over the absence of a “Study of the Past” requirement in the General Education Review Committee’s final report released in January.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
2-21-16
He was the scholar initially responsible for writing gay people into history. He was a nonacademic who at first simply sought an understanding of his place in the world.
Source: The Louisville Cardinal
2-21-16
“Anyone who knows me knows I am not a racist,” says history Professor Mark Blum.
Source: YIBADA
2-22-16
British-born American historian on Chinese history Philip Kuhn died on Monday, Feb. 15, at the age of 83.
Source: Edge.org
2-22-16
But geneticists may be about as welcome as barbarians at the gates, he warns.
Source: The Boston Globe
2-14-16
She says its simplistic to build the narrative of abolitionism only around whites.
Source: Aeon
12-31-15
The new insight is that profit motives were characteristic of American slavery.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
2-21-16
by Rachel Toor
"I think that it was in graduate school that I really learned how to write history."
Source: Breitbart
2-21-16
He says to opt out of the EU will hurt trade and security.
Source: Gazettenet
2-20-16
Though he does not question Lord Amherst’s “contempt” for Native Americans or desire to “extirpate” them, Sweeney said he finds little evidence that the general successfully weaponized smallpox.
Source: The Washington Post
2-18-16
by Stacia L. Brown
The Internet now provides a cornucopia of little-known or under-reported black history on a daily basis.
