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: AHA
January 20, 2015
by American Historical Association
A new law passed with good intentions could force department chairs at Virginia universities to fill out an 18 page form!
Source: edwired
January 19, 2015
by Mills Kelly
George Mason University's Mills Kelly: "It’s not that difficult to imagine a circumstance ten years hence in which we have lost a big chunk of that general education revenue to our area community colleges."
Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
January 20, 2015
Timothy Tackett, now history professor emeritus at UC Irvine, was in Watsonville helping his mother Jean pack up things for a move to Washington state when he looked in the bottom of a trunk.
Source: The Bangor Daily News
January 20, 2015
Professor Emerson Baker believes an Indian attack was a key trigger for the Salem, Massachusetts, witch hunts.
Source: Salon
January 20, 2015
Right-wing leader Harry Jaffa received glowing eulogies last week. But his vile homophobia must also be remembered.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 16, 2015
by Linda Gordon
In a column in the Chronicle she lays out the argument she made at the AHA: The BDS Movement is pressuring Israel in desirable ways.
Source: Mondoweiss
January 17, 2015
"From Time Immemorial is an embarrassment that taints anyone who embraced it as well as those who continue to do so."
Source: Simon & Schuster
January 18, 2015 (accessed)
It's about the Wright Brothers. It will be published in May.
January 16, 2015
by Erik Moshe
This week: Sven Beckert, Richard Dunn, and Bartow J. Elmore.
Source: Press Release -- The Catholic Schools Textbook Project
January 16, 2015 (accessed)
Historian Kevin Starr says: "This carefully researched, beautifully written, and elegantly designed four-volume textbook series at long last gives full weight to the contribution of Roman Catholics."
Source: The Fresno Bee
January 15, 2015
He received a doctorate degree in history from North Texas State University in 1973, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar specializing in Latin American history.
Source: YouTube
January 15, 2015
The History of Capitalism Initiative is Cornell University's intellectual center for ideas, programs, research, and curriculum development on the history of American capitalism.
Source: NYT
January 14, 2015
The Columbia professor debunks the debunker who claimed that the Underground Railroad was largely fictional
Source: Press Release -- U.S. Navy
January 13, 2015
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Samuel Cox recently assumed responsibilities as the new director of the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).
Source: Press Release -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 13, 2015
Harold Holzer plans to retire from the Met this summer to enable him to engage more fully in his work as a historian and writer.
Source: Orange County Register
December 17, 2015
Michael Ellzey, former CEO of the Orange County Great Park Corp., will take over as the director of the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
Source: NYT
January 12, 2015
Her 1984 book, “From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine,” drew accolades and also outrage by arguing that claims of a historical Palestinian homeland in Israel were invented.
Source: Orange County Register
January 9, 2015
The bitter conflict between Timothy Naftali, federal director of the Nixon Library & Museum from 2007 to 2011, and the private Nixon Foundation lingers over the Yorba Linda institution, and resolving that friction is a key goal for the incoming director.
January 12, 2015
by Van Gosse
HAW says the facts were readily available.
Source: New York Magazine
January 11, 2015
New York Magazine survey finds that historians are most divided about Obama’s foreign policy legacy.
