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: NYT
May 26, 2015
"Reconstruction poses a challenge to Americans’ historical understanding because we prefer stories with happy endings." -- Eric Foner
Source: The Laurinburg Exchange
May 26, 2015
“The criticism I am hearing is much too harsh. Particularly, I think in the editorial pages of The Washington Post that much of the criticism has been extraordinarily severe and unjustified.”
Source: The New Orleans Advocate
May 26, 2015
Ambrose served as a consultant for the 10-part World War II HBO production “The Pacific” and wrote The New York Times best-selling companion book to the miniseries.
Source: Daily Mail
May 25, 2015
by Dominick Sandbrook
Dominick Sandbrook says a biographer's claims are specious.
Source: Washington College
May 25, 2015 (accessed)
The prize for the best writing on early American history is for Bunker’s "An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America" (Knopf).
Source: Project Syndicate
May 19, 2015
by Niall Ferguson
The economics historian Niall Ferguson says Robert Skidelsky, biographer of Keynes, was wrong about the British economy and should admit it.
Source: The Telegraph
May 25, 2015
Historians are too reliant on official accounts and have missed controversial facts about American and British troops in the First and Second World War, Antony Beevor says.
Source: Newark Advocate
May 23, 2015
Ohio State University professor Gleb Tsipursky decided to be honest despite negative stereotypes.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
May 18, 2015
by Daniel Pipes
He tells Iranians that if the US doesn’t bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israel should
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 21, 2015
Historian Noel Ignatiev drew intense criticism from some conservative media outlets for comments he never actually made.
May 21, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week the Times reviewed books about Goebbels, Waterloo, and Christian America.
Source: Huffington Post
May 19, 2015
Why is this important? The lesson that he has drawn from his study of 19th century politics is that partisanship is a necessary element of the political process.
Source: History Today
May 18, 2015
In an open letter they charge that "Britain's past is neither so exalted nor so unique” as is claimed.
Source: Slate
May 19, 2015 (accessed)
America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from acclaimed historians and writers, alongside Slate's Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion.
Source: Slate
May 19, 2015
It’s not just an academic debate for historians of American slavery.
Source: Richmond County Daily Journal
May 18, 2015
It’s “The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton,” scheduled for publication in December by Oxford University Press.
Source: Huffington Post
May 18, 2015
by Ken Burns
"We have continually superimposed our complex and contradictory nature over the random course of human events."
Source: NYT
May 14, 2015
His favorite presidential biographer is Edmund Morris.
Source: Special to HNN
May 15, 2015 (accessed)
by Vanessa Madrigal
An analysis of the syllabus of ANTH 101 clearly reveals that the course does not comply with the state mandated guidelines for administering a comprehensive knowledge of American history.”
Source: The Guardian
May 15, 2015
by Rebekah Higgitt
But some complain the historians are employing the old discredited Whig history framework.
