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 Concord Review
11-4-15 (accessed)
Will Fitzhugh, the editor of The Concord Review, says few high school students these days ever get the experience of writing a term paper.
Source: Mosaic
11-4-15
by Walter Laqueur
The Yale historian’s much-lauded new book promises a revolutionary view of the Holocaust. But it misleads more than it enlightens.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-3-15
by Anne McClanan
Anne McClanan discusses the pedagogical utility of incorporating gaming into art history and museum studies.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
11-3-15
by Andrew Bacevich
He argues that by not doing it, historians have let a false political narrative take hold among the general public.
Source: The Charlotte Observer
11-2-15
by Glenda Gilmore
She won’t address her previous animosity toward gays.
Source: Patheos
11-2-15
by Warren Throckmorton
It had been pulled from publication by HarperCollins.
Source: NYT
10-30-15
Professor Cesarani challenged Hannah Arendt’s view of a Nazi war criminal as just a cog in a vast machine of murder.
Source: Reuters
10-29-15
He has been charged with receiving foreign funds with the intent to undermine Moroccan institutions, his lawyers said.
Source: NYT
10-28-15
Mr. Wolin galvanized political science by gathering key political philosophers, beginning with the Greeks, and examining their ideas as a way to criticize current political structures.
Source: Yale News
10-28-15
An interview with the Yale historian.
Source: Star Tribune
10-27-15
The apology came after another historian turned up evidence that a millionaire was behind the firing.
Source: AHA Today
10-27-15
Which lessons from the past are ultimately going to be most helpful for creating a more humane future? The 2016 annual meeting will offer historians many chances to debate that question.
Source: The Telegraph
10-26-15
Her intellectual curiosity straddled the arts and sciences from the Renaissance to human fertilization.
10-22-15
The list includes: Niall Ferguson, Andrew Roberts and Simon Schama.
Source: The Junto
10-27-15
The new critiques are drawing a response.
Source: AHA Perspectives on History
10-27-15 (accessed)
The exhibit, American Enterprise, acknowledges the ills of capitalism, but it also celebrates entrepreneurship as an expression of individuality.
Source: NYT
10-24-15
by Nitin Nohria
He believes this would help set a norm of better behavior for them.
Source: Independent
10-26-15
So this is what the Romans did for us ....
Source: Gazette-Mail
10-22-15
by Sam Owens
Foner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and history professor at Columbia University, gave a lecture about Reconstruction at the University of Charleston.
Source: NPR Ombudsman Page
10-23-15
by Elizabeth Jensen
At issue: how long the Seminole have been in Florida.
