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: Huffington Post
9-18-15
by Alan Singer
Wilentz took to the NYT to argue that Bernie Sanders is wrong about the racist roots of America.
Source: NYT
9-17-15
For Professor Schorske, a revered teacher at Princeton, the modern cultural age began in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
Source: AP
9-17-15
ASU officials confirmed Thursday that Dr. Matthew Whitaker had been relieved of all duties.
Source: The Boston Globe
9-15-15
Thomas Putnam, the director of the John F. Kennedy Library has resigned.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
9-17-15
First-time doctoral enrollment in history, English, and other arts-and-humanities disciplines fell 0.5 percent from 2013 to 2014.
Source: Commentary Magazine
9-1-15
by Elliott Abrams
The memoir blasts Barack Obama but pulls its punches elsewhere.
9-15-15
Kevin Butterfield was chosen to be on the show out of over 100,000 people who competed in an online test.
Source: American Association for State and Local History
8-31-15
by John Dichtl
He’s celebrated for teaching us that thinking historically is "an unnatural act."
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly
9-11-15
America has a love-hate relationship with Teach for America.
Source: You Tube
9-15-15 (accessed)
Watch this video and you’ll know why they keep giving him these gigs
Source: Love of History
9-13-15
by Constantina Katsari
"This week it is two years since I left academia. So, I thought it is the right time to reflect on the past year and the lessons I have learned."
Source: The Times of Israel
9-14-15
Chernow admits he was a little taken aback the first time he attended a rehearsal — the cast was made up almost exclusively of people of color. But he soon decided the casting was “a stroke of genius,” he said.
Source: Princeton University Press (via email)
9-14-15
by Philip T. Hoffman
Why he disagrees with Jared Diamond, and how he used a simple economic model of political costs and technological change to reach his conclusion that the key to European supremacy was their leaders' willingness to spend a fortune on war.
9-14-15
The geography professor, Shannon Lamb, killed Schmidt hours after killing his own girlfriend, police say. When police closed in Lamb shot and killed himself.
Source: WaPo
9-8-15
by Alyssa Rosenberg
He even knows what the last words of the documentary will be. “They would head, as the poet Langston Hughes wrote, ‘towards the warmth of other suns.’ ” In all the time Burns has been chronicling American history, that dream hasn’t been accomplished. But the journey continues.
Source: The Root
9-11-15
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps folks find out more about their ancestors.
Source: Foreign Policy
9-10-15
by John T. Kuehn
The program was set up after 9-11 to to capture the hard-won insights of the folks involved in the various aspects of the Global War on Terror.
Source: White House website
9-10-15
The President Awards the National Medals of the Arts and Humanities to Vicki Ruiz and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
9-10-15
by Scott Jaschik
An interview with Harvey J. Graff, author of "Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Source: Raw Story
9-9-15
“The Bible says if you engage in homosexuality, your body will do things that penalize you. So if you can have a vaccine for AIDS, then you’re keeping your body from penalizing you. I don’t think they’ll ever find a vaccine for AIDS.”
