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: Chronicle of Higher Ed
November 15, 2015
by Steven Conn
Steven Conn says the problem is that state legislatures are rigging the market against the humanities.
Source: Daily Mail
November 17, 2015
Professor Christopher Duggan was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History for his 2012 book "Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy" that was also Political History Book of the Year at the Total Politics Political Book Awards.
Source: Facebook
November 17, 2015
by Mark Humphries
A classicist says Ferguson’s history is all bolloxed up.
Source: AHA website
November 16, 2015
The resolution: Protecting the Right to Education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Source: Columbia Spectator
November 15, 2015
She won a $75,000 prize for her book, “The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire.”
Source: Huffington Post
November 12, 2015
Dan Carlin has created a one-man podcasting empire by making the past as entertaining as a blockbuster.
Source: Democracy
November 13, 2015
She salts "her account of the trials with anachronisms that serve our prejudices."
Source: Tropics of Meta
November 9, 2015
He was the executive director of the Oral History Association.
Source: Circulated Email
November 10, 2015
by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Patrick Timmons
He joined a political scientist in circulating an email against the plan, which goes into effect in 2016
Source: Matthew Pinsker’s blog at Dickinson College
November 5, 2015
by Stephanie Kugler
Her students concluded he was wrong.
Source: Time Magazine
November 10, 2015
Studying the classics can teach us the importance of looking at problems from both sides, she says in an interview with Time Magazine.
Source: YouTube
November 2, 2015
The subject: What FDR Knew About Corporate Education Reform
November 10, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... Ruth Bader Ginsburg, London fog, Mr. Putin, FDR, and the Salem witches.
Source: Mexico News Daily
November 5, 2015
Enrique Krauze among those worried about Trump's "alarming statements."
Source: The Financial Times
November 6, 2015
Celebrated writer challenged conventional narrative of Nazi rule
Source: NYT
November 8, 2015
In an interview he says that Xi would like to be thought of as an emperor, but doesn’t show the self-restraint of emperors.
Source: NYT
November 9, 2015
Meacham is toughest on Bush for insisting in 1987 that he had been “not in the loop” on the Reagan administration’s arms-for-hostages. Bush lied, says Meacham.
Source: Duke Today
November 6, 2015
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust opened the Centennial Symposium honoring John Hope Franklin by praising the legacy he left for activists and scholars and for research “that rescued us from bad history.”
November 6, 2015
by Lee Wright
The first History Camp outside of New England draws professors from colleges across Iowa.
Source: Salon
November 5, 2015
In an interview in Salon, Rauchway says he’s a little surprised that we’re talking about the gold standard in 2015
