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 Times of India
4-21-15
The world has lost a top historian who unearthed the roots of Indian nationalism. Themes analysed by Bayly radically reshaped understandings of India's past — and remain deeply relevant today.
Source: Pulitzer Prize
4-20-15
Elizabeth A. Fenn for "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People" and David I. Kertzer for "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe."
Source: TomDispatch
4-20-15
by Tom Engelhardt
AFRICOM is the US military's Africa Command and Turse says it's gone to war with almost no one noticing.
Source: Special to HNN
4-20-15
by Allison Jobe
Recapturing the legacy of the Socialist Party was the theme of a panel discussion on “American Socialism Reconsidered” hosted by the National Press Club in Washington DC on April 9.
Source: Special to HNN
4-20-15
by Mary Niall Mitchell
He recently died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 49.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
4-19-15
Robert V. Hine, a memoirist, novelist and prolific historian of the American West wrote a highly praised chronicle of regaining his sight after 15 years of blindness.
4-18-15
This video features statements by three local activists in Ferguson, Missouri who joined the movement to protest police violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last summer.
4-18-15
by Patty Limerick
A cost-benefit analysis, seen from the interior.
4-18-15
by Darlene Clark Hine
In this interview, Darlene Clark Hine speaks about a subject she has long tried to forget: The painful decision the OAH made in 2000 to stand up to the racist practices of the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The controversy broke just as Professor Hine was preparing to take-over as the new president of the OAH.
4-18-15
by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
In this interview, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann speaks about the ways historians are rewriting the history of the war on drugs.
4-18-15
by Johann Neem
Johann Neem speaks about the impact of the Common Core standards on the teaching of history.
4-18-15
by Logan Sawyer
Logan Sawyer speaks about the conservative movement’s adoption of originalism.
4-18-15
by Mark Carnes
In this video clip from a workshop conducted at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Mark Carnes is training teachers who will be running games to help students understand history in their own classrooms.
4-17-15
Historians analyze the growing gap between full professors who earn a solid middle class income and adjuncts who don't.
4-17-15
by Jonathan Zimmerman
A well-known professor, Jonathan Zimmerman is celebrated for writing more op eds than probably any other living historian. We wanted to know what the secret of his success is.
4-17-15
What scholars think now about the Church Committee and why it wasn't more effective.
4-17-15
by Jonathan Pritchett and Charles Calomiris
Jonathan Pritchett and Charles Calomiris presented a paper about the economics of slavery at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
4-17-15
by Hasia Diner
Hasia Diner discusses a major myth about immigrants — that they were the poorest of the poor. Not true, she says.
4-17-15
by Lauren Gutterman
Jeannance Freeman was convicted of murdering the two children of her lesbian lover. In this interview Ms. Gutterman breaks the taboo of gay historians who have shied away from stories that tend to reinforce stereotypes about gays.
4-16-15
by Russ Henderson
Russ Henderson notes that the Pilgrim founding fathers allowed 16 year olds to vote.
