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: NYT
12-30-15
Professor Weinstein’s work, with its emphasis on the power of religious thought in a supposedly secular age, opened up new avenues in research on the Renaissance.
Source: Time Magazine
12-30-15
Hamilton’s vision for America won out over Jefferson’s.
Source: flowing data.com
12-30-15 (accessed)
In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond and Stamen Design, American Panorama combines United States history, geographic mapping, and individual narratives to create a visual atlas of history.
Source: Jewish Review of Books
12-30-15 (accessed)
by Walter Laqueur
Among Israeli intellectuals of his generation, Gershom Scholem had by far the greatest impact both at home and abroad.
Source: Politico for detailed explanations of choices
12-27-15
Selections include: GW and Teddy Roosevelt.
Source: Johns Hopkins website
12-29-15
"Another sad loss but at a grand old age: Sidney Mintz whose anthropological history of sugar Sweetness and Power is still a classic." -- Simon Schama
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
12-29-15
“The result was a massive but largely ignored intelligence failure.” — Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA’s former chief historian.
Source: NYT
12-26-15
Professor Dabney, who taught at the University of Wyoming, spent more than 40 years immersed in Wilsoniana.
12-24-15
by Erik Moshe
This week ... World War II, the Cold War, India at war. Sorry. Merry Christmas.
Source: Atlantic
10-21-15
Jim Loewen says textbooks don't teach the forest. They teach twigs.
Source: WalesOnline
12-21-15
Research has shed new light on the impact of Herbert Mason's famous picture of St Paul's Cathedral taken during the Second World War
Source: The Dallas Morning News
12-21-15
His goal in writing "The American President" was to provide a definitive history of the rise of the United States presidency, from virtual insignificance throughout the 19th century to global powerhouse in the 20th.
Source: NYT
12-18-15
Park Yu-ha has been charged with defamation for a book that challenged the common understanding of “comfort women” as innocent girls taken forcibly and raped by Japanese colonizers.
Source: OAH
12-21-15
The organization says work conditions for part-time, adjunct, and contingent historians is seriously wanting.
Source: Minnesota Public Radio
12-15-15
In his new book, The Work of the Dead, Laqueur examines the cultural significance of human remains and describes how burial and cremation customs have evolved over the centuries.
Source: NYT
12-5-15
Blain Roberts and Ethan Kytle, professors at California State University, Fresno, expressed their views in an op ed in the NYT.
Source: New Europe
12-14-15
The statute commemorating the Nazi collaborator is erected by a “private group” linked to the far-right Jobbik party, but has received state and municipality funding, and has the moral support of the local Mayor, Andras Cser-Palkovics.
Source: NJJN
12-14-15
Julian E. Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University and the son of a prominent Metuchen rabbi, said his invitation to speak at a Pennsylvania synagogue was revoked over the suspicion that he didn’t hold sufficiently supportive views of Israel.
Source: NYT
12-14-15
Dr. Anderson, an expert on Southeast Asia, transformed the study of nationalism with his book “Imagined Communities” and other works.
Source: Religion and Politics
12-10-15
That’s his conclusion after a careful review of culture wars since 1800.
