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: Network of Concerned Historians
October 11, 2015
A long campaign of harassament and intimidation was waged against him, including threats and defamatory articles in newspapers and on news sites.
Source: Princeton University
October 9, 2015
With his Princeton colleague Thomas Kuhn, he gave impetus to the founding of the history and philosophy of science as an academic discipline.
October 9, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week: The Kissinger controversy at the New York Times, among other subjects.
Source: NC State University
October 8, 2015
It’s a story pulled from today’s headlines: Black voters turn out on election day only to learn that their names have been stricken from the voter rolls.
But this one has a happy ending.
Source: NYT
October 8, 2015
The historian, Stephan Templ, 54, was co-author of a book in 2001, “Our Vienna,” which documented hundreds of properties seized under the Nazis that were never returned to Jewish owners or their heirs after World War II.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
October 3, 2015
by Daniel Pipes
In an op ed he says the Immigration Act of 1965 was dangerous.
Source: WSJ
October 8, 2015
Belarusian author and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, a longtime critic of the Soviet regime and more recently of the Russian government, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Source: The Stanford Daily
October 7, 2015
He'll be taking a formal role at the Hoover Institution.
Source: The Transylvania Times
October 8, 2015
While the integration of white and black athletes in the 1960s and ‘70s took place with relatively few problems, the integration of cheerleading squads was more problematic.
Source: NYT
October 7, 2015
The women’s history center is to open in early 2017.
Source: WaPo
October 7, 2015
History had been her obsession since the precocious 4-year-old read “Our Island Story,” a children’s book, in 1936.
Source: NY Review of Books
October 5, 2015
On Henry Kissinger, Zbig, the Kennedys, and more.
Source: Legal History Blog
February 10, 2015
Basch remained a feminist, both personally and professionally, throughout her life, inspiring students, colleagues, and other scholars with the acuity of her insights and analysis and the passion of her commitment.
Source: David Bruce Smith's Grateful American Foundation
October 6, 2015
Students from around the world competed in five categories: documentaries, exhibits, papers, performances, and websites. An interview with the director, Cathy Gorn.
Source: Humanities Indicators -- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
October 5, 2015
Students who majored in history tend to earn more than graduates from other humanities programs.
Source: historiansforrefugees
August 9, 2015
The statement was initiated by Dr. Jan Kunnas from Finland but currently working at KTH in Sweden and Dr. Viktor Pàl from Hungary but currently working at WU Wien in Austria, as a response to their frustration with the xenophobic discussion in their countries unleashed by the current influx of refugees.
Source: Mother Jones
October 1, 2015
by Kevin Drum
"Obama Is Prone to Submitting to Males Who Act Dominantly in His Presence"
Source: S-USIH
September 30, 2015
Judging by the number of alarmist recent articles about the decline of the humanities, it seems apparent that they are embattled. But judging by the program of the upcoming Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) conference, they have never been better.
Source: NYT
October 1, 2015
Mr. Afanasyev, a Russian historian and former Communist loyalist, became a leading democratic politician in the late Soviet era.
Source: The Pittsburgh Courier
September 29, 2015
by Dr. Lou Martin
Lou Martin says the columnist recycled arguments from the 19th century.
