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
August 31, 2015
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
August 28, 2015
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)
August 28, 2015
“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
August 27, 2015
by Ron Radosh and Allis Radosh
They outlined their defense in an op ed in the NYT this past week.
Source: OUPblog
August 25, 2015
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
August 26, 2015 (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
August 24, 2015
Burns also disappointed Confederate flag apologists, listing the Civil War's 3 causes as "slavery, slavery, slavery"
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 24, 2015
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.
August 25, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week ... books about moral panics, language, big ideas in history, and the fascinating history of autism.
Source: Stanford News
August 24, 2015
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
August 23, 2015
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
August 16, 2015
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
August 23, 2015 (accessed)
In this fascinating interview he discusses Karl Rove, the myth of states’ rights, and other topics.
Source: OAH
August 21, 2015
Organization of American Historians asks its members to contact their representatives.
Source: Education Week
August 21, 2015
by Liana Heitin
The point? Both the 2014 and 2015 documents are significantly better than what came before them.
Source: University of Washington
August 17, 2015
"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
August 15, 2015
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
August 19, 2015
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
August 13, 2015
The question is settled: What he'd do after doing the thing for which he became celebrated.
Source: The Guardian
August 12, 2015
Project commemorating the killing of Jews reveals tensions between Soviet and modern Ukrainian historical narrative
