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: Kentucky.com
8-31-15
Seventy-two historians from 16 public and private colleges and universities in Kentucky want a controversial statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis removed from the state Capitol. A commission voted 7 to 2 to retain it.
Source: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
8-28-15
The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) played an important role in documenting the stories of individuals, and offered a non-commercial digital space to collect photographs, audio diaries, or digital video that would be cared for as a digital collection.
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
8-28-15
“After the Malmedy massacre (in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors near Malmedy, Belgium) the Americans started to kill their prisoners, and often with the approval of commanders.”
Source: NYT
8-27-15
by Ron Radosh and Allis Radosh
They outlined their defense in an op ed in the NYT this past week.
Source: OUPblog
8-25-15
The United States holds the world’s largest prison population, but just how deep does our nation’s system of punishment and containment run?
Source: ASEEES
8-26-15 (accessed)
by Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
Fewer grad students in history and the social sciences are taking an interest in Russia.
Source: Salon
8-24-15
Burns also disappointed Confederate flag apologists, listing the Civil War's 3 causes as "slavery, slavery, slavery"
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
8-24-15
by Richard Utz
The future of the field, says Richard Utz, may depend on reconnecting it to the powerful fascination among our students and the general public.
8-25-15
by Erik Moshe
This week ... books about moral panics, language, big ideas in history, and the fascinating history of autism.
Source: Stanford News
8-24-15
Through research into the first historians of medieval Europe, Professor Paula Findlen discovers that an interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed.
Source: The Sunday Times
8-23-15
Barry Keane, the author of Massacre in West Cork, wanted to obtain the names of informants who worked against Irish secret societies between 1892 and 1910.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
8-16-15
That's the new show by the creative force behind The Wire. The historians are: Thomas Sugrue of New York University and Craig Steven Wilder of MIT.
Source: Jacobin
8-23-15 (accessed)
In this fascinating interview he discusses Karl Rove, the myth of states’ rights, and other topics.
Source: OAH
8-21-15
Organization of American Historians asks its members to contact their representatives.
Source: Education Week
8-21-15
by Liana Heitin
The point? Both the 2014 and 2015 documents are significantly better than what came before them.
Source: University of Washington
8-17-15
"In the 1960s I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the flower power epicenter, and while I was never a hippie, one of my best friends from high school spent 13 years living a countercultural life. So the topic always interested me."
Source: Daily Express
8-15-15
James Holland has hit back at moves by Moscow to ban his books because they do not place enough emphasis on the role played by the Soviet Union in winning the Second World War.
Source: Phoenix New Times
8-19-15
Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio released a slide-by-slide comparison of a Powerpoint-style presentation that Whitaker prepared for the training, which DiCiccio says the history professor plagiarized from a Chicago Police Department cultural-training program.
Source: NYT
8-13-15
The question is settled: What he'd do after doing the thing for which he became celebrated.
Source: The Guardian
8-12-15
Project commemorating the killing of Jews reveals tensions between Soviet and modern Ukrainian historical narrative
