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: The Daily Beast
August 1, 2015
He claimed it was a myth that the Irish faced massive job discrimination. She showed it was true.
Source: CBS
August 1, 2015
On the CBS Evening News Jeremy Stern went up against Williamjames Hull Hoffer.
Source: The Independent
August 2, 2015
Hughes has presented TV series including ITV's 'Britain's Secret Treasures' and BBC2's 'Divine Women', and is the author of bestselling books
Source: Haaretz
July 30, 2015
Dr. Dan Plesch says that the the former Nazi officers were released under pressure from the U.S., which wanted Germany on its side in the Cold War.
July 31, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week's books cover a lot for ground: school segregation, Putin, and Sir Thomas Browne.
Source: Historians Against the War (HAW)
July 27, 2015
by Van Gosse
This fall, HAW will submit another resolution regarding Israel's violations of academic freedom to the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, to be held in Atlanta on the first weekend of 2016.
Source: AP
July 19, 2015
Historian Robert J. Stahl filed a petition Friday with the New Mexico Supreme Court to order the state's medical examiner to create the document for the legendary outlaw.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
July 28, 2015
Suspect arrested this February after a nearly year-long manhunt.
Source: AHA Blog
July 27, 2015
President: Patrick Manning. President-elect: Tyler E. Stovall.
Source: WSJ
July 24, 2015
by Nial Ferguson
What’s most likely is that Iran will use fresh funds to bolster terrorists, inspiring others in the region to beef up their militaries.
Source: Politico
July 26, 2015
by Sven Beckert
They include books by Ira Berlin, Eric Foner, and Thavolia Glymph. (Not mentioned: David Brion Davis.)
Source: The Globe and Mail
July 27, 2015
by Jonathan Zimmerman
It’s homophobia that is.
Source: Times Higher Education
July 23, 2015
by Howard Segal
"In 2012, my own impoverished public institution, the University of Maine, paid $45,000 to bestselling historian Doris Kearns Goodwin for a speech that summarised her 2005 book, Team of Rivals. She was a very good speaker, but her fee could have nearly paid the first-year salary of an assistant professor desperately needed by my history department."
Source: The Topeka Capital-Journal
July 25, 2015
“Exploring issues of human nature brought me back to the Holocaust.”
Source: NYT
July 23, 2015
“The Reformation” (1964), one of two volumes Professor Chadwick wrote for The Penguin History of the Church, was required reading in colleges for decades.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 19, 2015
One solution has been turning to undergrads to help with research.
Source: NYT
July 23, 2015
In his new book he raises the fact that Obama's father was Muslim.
Source: NYT
July 22, 2015
Professor Crone challenged conventional views of the roots and evolution of Islam and her numerous books and articles shed new light on the history of the religion.
Source: Society of American Archivists
July 21, 2015
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees NARA, will take up a bill to address the recent data breach at the Office of Personnel Management.
Source: The Conversation
July 21, 2015
by Michael Wutz
His fictions held a mirror up to the popular myths and self-constructions of America and made his name synonymous with critical self-investigation.
