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: The Atlantic
December 10, 2015
Writers who commit themselves to only writing hopeful things are committing themselves to the ahistorical and the mythical.
Source: Drexel News Blog
December 9, 2015
Drexel historian Amy Slaton revealed that the stadium was named for a blatant segregationist
Source: AHA Today
December 8, 2015
Julian Zelizer told the group that voting rights are once again under threat.
Source: Letter to the Editor, Perspectives
December 7, 2015 (accessed)
Their claim: McGraw-Hill bought into a narrative fiction peddled by some historians.
December 7, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... Eric Rauchway, Glenda Gilmore, Tom Sugrue, Robin Lane Fox, Tim Whitmarsh, Dan Jones, T.J. Stiles.
Source: NPR
December 6, 2015
Brian Balogh and Peter Onus say “modern liberalism was not very good on race.”
Source: NYT
December 4, 2015
It’s full of interesting anecdotes — like the one about the time she was caught by a museum guard crawling over the life-sized statue of Mary Queen of Scots to measure her face.
Source: NYT
December 4, 2015
The controversial book, “Out of Imperialism,” by Qin Hui, a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, has garnered considerable attention since it appeared this fall.
Source: AHA Perspectives
December 2, 2015
by Robert Townsend
You're riding the current wave if your specialty is in the history of the environment or sexuality.
Source: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
December 4, 2015 (accessed)
When asked what her favorite thing is about being a historian, Claire Bond Potter, who recently joined the Schlesinger Library Council, says with some mirth, “Reading other people’s mail.”
Source: The Seattle Times
December 2, 2015
“When a society has amnesia, that’s just as bad [as when an individual does], that’s just as dire, and so I’ve said and I still believe, you rush them to an historian.”
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
December 2, 2015
by Daniel Pipes
He disclosed the attack in an article titled, “Muslim ‘No=Go Zones’ in Europe?"
Source: NPR
December 1, 2015
"I'm a great fan of Roman movies. All the classics are — they might not be accurate, but they speak to me about Rome."
December 2, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
The sessions will precede what is expected to be a lively debate about Israel at the Business Meeting.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 1, 2015
"As a professor at Claremont McKenna College, I was grateful when student activists sent faculty members a list of campus microaggressions and acts of bias. Then I learned that my course was on that list.” — Tamara Venit Shelton
Source: Perspectives on History
December 1, 2015 (accessed)
by Alexandros K. Kyrou
"The audience, which had filled the 175-seat auditorium to standing room only, was invited to ask questions. What followed was disturbing."
Source: Ham&High
November 30, 2015
Bridget Galton talks to the bestselling historian about his duty to understand the past, no matter how horrific, but above all to remain objective.
Source: Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times
November 30, 2015
In a letter to the editor of the Financial Times he says the Roman Empire didn’t collapse because of loose border controls.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 25, 2015
They walked out of a faculty emergency meeting to be with students.
Source: NYT
November 27, 2015
The list includes Sven Beckert's "Empire of Cotton" and Nicholas Stargardt's "The German War."
