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: New Historian
February 20, 2015
He’s been accused of being a bigot. Have his critics gone too far?
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home (blog)
February 17, 2015
by John Fea
In an article in the conservative Weekly Standard he lionized Bernard Bailyn.
Source: The Washington Post
February 18, 2015
After retiring from the park service in 1981, Dr. Pfanz spent the next 20 years researching and writing his Gettysburg trilogy: “Gettysburg: The Second Day” (1987), which was the most critically praised book in the trilogy.
Source: Harvard Magazine
February 18, 2015
“World War I is seen to have introduced a rupture in the history of war.”
Source: JSTOR
February 12, 2015
Its origins date back to 1926, when a historian named Carter G. Woodson spearheaded “Negro History Week.”
Source: Mother Jones
February 18, 2015
A conversation with President Thomas Jefferson and the scholar and podcaster who channels him, Clay Jenkinson.
Source: SCVTV
February 17, 2015
James Sefton teaches American military and naval history, World War II, constitutional history, and his specialty, Civil War and Reconstruction.
Source: Huffington Post
February 17, 2015
by Louise Mirrer
Louise Mirrer is all in favor of African-American history, LGBT history, etc., but says we need a unified story.
Source: Smashing Interviews Magazine
February 12, 2015
"I remember asking both my parents and my teachers at school continuously about where we came from and what was the meaning of all this."
Source: Think Progress
February 17, 2015
An Oklahoma bill banning Advanced Placement U.S. History would also require schools to instruct students in a long list of ‘foundational documents,’ including the Ten Commandments, two sermons and three speeches by Ronald Reagan,
Source: David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies -- Press Release
February 17, 2015
They're upset with Mahmoud Abbas for embracing Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his central role in the Darfur genocide.
February 17, 2015
by Erik Moshe
Lincoln. Lincoln. Lincoln. You'd think it was his birthday or something.
Source: The Wesleyan Argus
February 16, 2015
“I see a great contemporary urgency to think about capitalism, because capitalism basically structures all of our lives today."
Source: The Weekly Standard
February 16, 2015 (accessed)
"Although Bernard Bailyn is one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world, he is not as well known as he should be."
Source: Salon
February 16, 2015
"I think he was the greatest politician of his age. I think he was the greatest writer of his age."
Source: The Phoenix, Swarthmore College
February 12, 2015
Students from Professor of History Allison Dorsey’s class “Black Liberation 1969” have begun to hold various events around campus as part of what Dorsey called a “takeover of Black History Month.”
Source: NYT
February 11, 2015
Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar who recently announced his retirement as a public affairs executive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been awarded the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
Source: Press Release -- New-York Historical Society
January 29, 2015
Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the New-York Historical Society will present the exhibition Lincoln and the Jews, on view March 20 through June 7, 2015.
Source: Press Release
February 9, 2015
by Gregory J. W. Urwin
A new white paper suggests that history departments could attract students by focusing on military history, which now features the methodologies of social, cultural, gender, economic, political, diplomatic, and institutional history.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
January 29, 2015
" It all boils down to the Industrial Revolution. That was the impetus behind this new, 19th-century desire to read about murder in journalism or in fiction."
