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
2-20-15
He’s been accused of being a bigot. Have his critics gone too far?
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home (blog)
2-17-15
by John Fea
In an article in the conservative Weekly Standard he lionized Bernard Bailyn.
Source: The Washington Post
2-18-15
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
2-18-15
“World War I is seen to have introduced a rupture in the history of war.”
Source: JSTOR
2-12-15
Its origins date back to 1926, when a historian named Carter G. Woodson spearheaded “Negro History Week.”
Source: Mother Jones
2-18-15
A conversation with President Thomas Jefferson and the scholar and podcaster who channels him, Clay Jenkinson.
Source: SCVTV
2-17-15
James Sefton teaches American military and naval history, World War II, constitutional history, and his specialty, Civil War and Reconstruction.
Source: Huffington Post
2-17-15
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
2-12-15
"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
2-17-15
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
2-17-15
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.
2-17-15
by Erik Moshe
Lincoln. Lincoln. Lincoln. You'd think it was his birthday or something.
Source: The Wesleyan Argus
2-16-15
“I see a great contemporary urgency to think about capitalism, because capitalism basically structures all of our lives today."
Source: The Weekly Standard
2-16-15 (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
2-16-15
"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
2-12-15
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
2-11-15
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
1-29-15
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
2-9-15
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
1-29-15
" 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."
