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: Politico
6-19-15
by H.W. Brands
"A dozen years ago, I fought to keep the faces of our early heroes on our currency. Now I say: Off with their heads!"
Source: Financial Times
6-2-15
He got poll numbers wrong and claimed that wages had gone up during the Great Recession, when they real wages actually went down.
Source: Special to HNN
by Edwin Black
The story is his insider’s account of “International Farhud Day” at the UN, June 1, 2015.
Source: Radio Free Europe
6-22-15
East and West are fighting Ukraine with different assumptions about the nation state, says Snyder. Russia still believes strong nations should dominate weak ones.
Source: The Boston Globe
6-12-15
“I have a Google alert for ‘drone’ because I’m obsessed with them,” says Williams. “I saw there was a mention in a Rolling Stone story about Muse, and I couldn’t believe it when I read that my research inspired their new CD.”
Source: Stanford News
6-17-15
by Cuauhtémoc García-García
A century and a half after Chinese migrants toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford professors is shedding light on a key chapter of the intertwined relationship between China and the United States.
6-19-15
by Erik Moshe
This week’s edition covers books on Jonas Salk, Stalin’s daughter, and what it means to be a grown-up.
Source: The Washington Post
6-18-15
Allen Weinstein wrote a provocative book about accused Cold War spy Alger Hiss, was an early Western advocate for Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, and served as the ninth archivist of the United States.
Source: Haaretz
6-16-15
The Knesset member writes a Wall Street Journal piece accusing Obama of deliberately damaging U.S.-Israel ties.
Source: CBS Los Angeles
6-16-15
One of the students complains he touched her bottom and put his tongue in her mouth
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
6-17-15
Her observations were made in the course of her presidential address to the Mormon History Association
Source: The Local
6-17-15
A Danish historian fined for claiming a journalist was a KGB agent at the height of the Cold War will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Source: Business Insider
6-17-15
First published in 2014, Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” is a critically acclaimed international best-seller. Harari uses his book to track the evolution of Homo sapiens from hunter-gatherers into self-empowered “gods” of the future.
Source: Copyright
6-2-15
Challenging American “exceptionalism,” the professor and filmmaker Oliver Stone co-authored a book and a 10-part Showtime documentary series, both titled “The Untold History of the United States (2012-2013).”
Source: OAH Blog
6-16-15 (accessed)
The OAH’s Journal of American History addresses this question in a special June issue.
Source: Joanne Bailey Blog
6-6-15
Challenging your own assumptions, she says, isn’t easy.
Source: American Historical Association
6-11-15
The American Historical Association has joined with 21 other scholarly societies in a statement protesting proposed changes to the structure of the University of Wisconsin system that threaten to undermine tenure, shared governance, and academic freedom in Wisconsin.
Source: Democracy Now
6-15-15
"You take chapter 39 of Magna Carta, probably the most famous clause. That is, you can still find it on courthouses in the United States. You can still find it in old constitutional books. It prohibits torture."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6-16-15
by Jonathan Judaken
He says he ended up on Jihad Watch after giving a lecture on “Judeophobia and Islamophobia.”
Source: Buzzfeed
6-15-15
by Joseph Bernstein
This team of historians and data scientists is developing a “Declassification Engine” that turns documents into data and mines it for insights about the history and future of official secrecy.
