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: UW TODAY
October 22, 2015
It’s called “Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights”
Source: Daily Princetonian
October 21, 2015
This fall she's back teaching at Princeton after a 10 year hiatus. Her course: Art School at African American Studies
Source: Al-Fanar Media
October 9, 2015
Mosul Eye is considered one of most accurate chronicles of life under Islamic State rule. Its author remains unidentified.
Source: UVA Today
October 16, 2015
The new center will deepen its engagement in this broadening field and will expand research opportunities for students, faculty and other scholars. The opening of the new John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History was celebrated Friday with a public opening ceremony.
Source: AHA Perspectives on History
October 19, 2015 (accessed)
This fall the National History Center is introducing the Mock Policy Briefings Program, modeled on our own Congressional Briefings by Historians initiative.
Source: The Guardian
October 15, 2015
The Yale historian says he’s not worried. He’s got the truth on his side.
Source: The State Journal-Register
October 16, 2015
Eileen Mackevich, named director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in 2010, has resigned after the "governor suggested he wanted to go in a different direction."
October 17, 2015
by HNN Editor
Speakers include:
Corey Robin (CUNY), Leo Ribuffo (GW), Claire Potter (New School), David Ferriero (Archivist of the United States), and Russell Jacoby (Author of The Last Intellectuals).
Source: Moyers & Company
October 15, 2015
by Bernard A. Weisberger
Bernie Weisberger imagines how Bernie Sanders might have answered the big question hanging over him at the Democratic debate.
Source: J Weekly
October 15, 2015
A Jewish weekly in San Francisco claims historians are treated differently if they side with Israel in the BDS controversy
Source: Chicagoist
October 15, 2015
"We asked Chicago to give us an assignment, and we are thrilled to present Chicago Authored, an exhibition that epitomizes the Museum's mission to share Chicago's stories," said Chicago History Museum President Gary T. Johnson.
Source: The Washington Post
October 16, 2015
by Craig Shirley, Kiron K. Skinner, Paul Kengor and Steven F. Hayward
They say it presents a flawed and outdated portrait of the president and is thinly sourced.
Source: NYT
October 16, 2015
Neil MacGregor will leave his post in Britain to help shape one of Germany’s most audacious cultural projects, the Humboldt Forum.
October 16, 2015
by HNN Editor
A (brief) interview with S.C. Gwynn.
Source: UCLA Newsroom
October 13, 2015
C-SPAN recently aired a recording of UCLA history professor Joan Waugh’s annual lecture on the history of baseball in the late 1800s
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 14, 2015
by Robert Zaretsky
He wonders if grad schools are to blame for their own problems.
Source: NYT
October 14, 2015
Ms. Baxandall was an author of “America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present,” a key text for students of American labor history and gender studies.
Source: Inside Higher ED
October 14, 2015
David Roediger, president of the American Studies Association, sent an email to members apologizing for a press release that suggested he and the ASA back Obama’s police reforms
Source: Salon
October 14, 2015
In his new book about the 1990s he says Bill Clinton was a transformational figure like Reagan
Source: The Guardian
October 7, 2015
Back channels to the Soviets, the ‘girlfriend system’ and doubts about LBJ: historian Timothy Naftali paints a portrait of a President Kennedy ‘far more interesting intellectually and far less appealing personally’
