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 Chronicle of Higher Education
3-10-15
Alice Dreger is a feminist atheist who writes frankly about sex and science. She drew barbs when she adopted a controversial theory about transsexuals.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
3-11-15
Feminist art history professor discusses book on how she came to study and participate in a form of bodybuilding called "figure girl" competitions.
Source: AHA
3-10-15 (accessed)
Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill was rebuked for refusing to drop a reference to comfort women in World War II.
3-10-15 (accessed)
by James Grossman
"[S]ince FY 11 there has been no federal funding provided for history or civics education. We are not providing our teachers with the help they need, the professional development that is essential, to prepare our children to be productive citizens."
Source: AHA
3-4-15
It will be either the University of Pennsylvania's David B. Ruderman, or UC's Tyler Stovall.
Source: NYT
3-9-15
Five years and eight drafts later, Mr. Larson’s new book, “Dead Wake,” which is about the sinking of the Lusitania, is shaping up to be one of the biggest nonfiction titles of the year.
Source: Harvard Gazette
3-6-15
She skipped her exams to participate.
Source: OAH
3-9-15
Written by OAH member George Chauncey, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, the brief focuses on the history of discrimination against gays.
Source: Dissent Magazine
3-3-15
"The book argues against the idea that the struggle for woman’s equality came in waves."
Source: Edge
3-4-15
Harari is the author of the new book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Kahneman is the author of Fast and Slow Thinking.
Source: Deutsche Welle
3-6-15
Witness or accomplice? New findings show that Germany’s complicity is greater than previously assumed.
Source: Times Higher Education
3-6-15
Conditions for female academics in some UK university history departments “smack still of the 1970s.”
Source: The Hill
3-6-15
Actually: " “Historians never retire, they just have more time to research.”
Source: Yale Daily News
3-6-15
It’s the biggest change in a generation, says Beverly Gage
Source: The GW Hatchet
3-5-15
Eric Cline, a classics and anthropology professor, is up for a prize for “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed.”
Source: National Security Archive
3-4-15
Kissinger turned over the messages to the State Department in 2001, but State has refused to make them available, claiming executive privilege.
Source: SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone
3-1-15
We are cultural and archaeological activists preparing to kick off a campaign in Washington, DC to urge and pressure the policy and decision makers to take immediate action to stop ISIS from destroying the remaining Mesopotamian Civilization in Mosul as well as other archaeological sites.
Source: Press Release
3-4-15
They are particularly upset over the firing of Dr. Somsak Jeamteerasakul, a leading historian at Thammasat University who was forced to flee the country for his life.
Source: Stanford News
3-4-15
Ian “Why the West Rules" Morris says that in the 21st century our cultural evolution is feeding back into our biological evolution.
Source: Yale News
3-4-15
"So one of the most cataclysmic movements of people in the history of the world is the result of what might be seen as a frivolous or minor fashion. “ — Paul Freedman
