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.
January 9, 2016
The resolution was decisively defeated in a vote at the Business Meeting of the American Historical Association: 51 in favor, 111 opposed.
Source: Special to HNN
January 9, 2016
by Historians Against the War (HAW)
126 members of the association signed the resolution, including many leading historians.
Source: Radio Poland
January 8, 2016
Historian Timothy Garton Ash has argued in an opinion piece in UK daily The Guardian that Poland's recently elected Law and Justice party has put democracy in the country at risk.
Source: Inside Higher ED
January 8, 2016
Hint -- it's not brass.
Source: Inside Higher ED
January 8, 2016
"White Southerners showed their power by dominating the space with martial monuments.”—Jane Censer
Source: Real Clear Books
January 6, 2016
“The 'Age of Clinton' has continued, not only because Bill and Hillary Clinton have continued to dominate headlines, but because of many of the defining phenomena of the times persist."
Source: CounterPunch
January 7, 2016
by Matt Peppe
“Apologists for the Israeli regime’s policies against Palestinians are putting forward nonsensical rationalizations for their opposition to the measure."
January 7, 2016
Highlights from the annual meeting held in Atlanta.
Source: The Jewish Week
January 6, 2016
by Stephen M. Flatow
A man whose daughter was killed by Palestinian terrorists says historians targeting Israel are guilty of misdirected anger.
January 6, 2016
by James Warren
Americans' apathy toward gun control exemplifies Rick Shenkman's thesis about our reliance on Stone-Age instincts in today's world.
Source: Slate
January 6, 2016
A careful study of recent popular history books reveals a genre dominated by generals, presidents—and male authors.
January 7, 2016
by Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF)
The proposed resolution is factually unreliable.
January 7, 2016
by Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF)
"We reject the all-too-common binary approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict that seeks to justify one side or the other as all right or all wrong."
January 5, 2016
by Historians Against the War (HAW)
The Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) has been running ads sniping at a proposed resolution critical of Israel that will be considered by the American Historical Association this weekend. Here's our response.
Source: Flat Hill
January 4, 2016
by AllenJayM
The loss experienced by the history discipline was exceptional.
January 4, 2016
by Erik Moshe
This week it's a real grab bag, everything from GW and Martha to men's beards and menswear.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
January 2, 2016
by Rafael Medoff
The reality is that security measures are required to protect against terrorism.
January 3, 2016
by Jeffrey Herf
Historians should acknowledge the limits of our ability to reach a judgment about the facts in dispute when they vote at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association.
Source: NYT
December 30, 2015
The author of a new book on Prohibition throws a cold splash on our nostalgia for the period.
Source: The New Yorker
December 30, 2015
The first German edition since 1945 is set to appear in January.
