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
10-22-15
It’s called “Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights”
Source: Daily Princetonian
10-21-15
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
10-9-15
Mosul Eye is considered one of most accurate chronicles of life under Islamic State rule. Its author remains unidentified.
Source: UVA Today
10-16-15
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
10-19-15 (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
10-15-15
The Yale historian says he’s not worried. He’s got the truth on his side.
Source: The State Journal-Register
10-16-15
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."
10-17-15
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
10-15-15
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
10-15-15
A Jewish weekly in San Francisco claims historians are treated differently if they side with Israel in the BDS controversy
Source: Chicagoist
10-15-15
"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
10-16-15
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They say it presents a flawed and outdated portrait of the president and is thinly sourced.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
10-16-15
Neil MacGregor will leave his post in Britain to help shape one of Germany’s most audacious cultural projects, the Humboldt Forum.
10-16-15
by HNN Editor
A (brief) interview with S.C. Gwynn.
Source: UCLA Newsroom
10-13-15
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
10-14-15
by Robert Zaretsky
He wonders if grad schools are to blame for their own problems.
Source: NYT
10-14-15
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
10-14-15
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
10-14-15
In his new book about the 1990s he says Bill Clinton was a transformational figure like Reagan
Source: The Guardian
10-7-15
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’
