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
1-20-15
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
1-19-15
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
1-20-15
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
1-20-15
Professor Emerson Baker believes an Indian attack was a key trigger for the Salem, Massachusetts, witch hunts.
Source: Salon
1-20-15
Right-wing leader Harry Jaffa received glowing eulogies last week. But his vile homophobia must also be remembered.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
1-16-15
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
1-17-15
"From Time Immemorial is an embarrassment that taints anyone who embraced it as well as those who continue to do so."
Source: Simon & Schuster
1-18-15 (accessed)
It's about the Wright Brothers. It will be published in May.
1-16-15
by Erik Moshe
This week: Sven Beckert, Richard Dunn, and Bartow J. Elmore.
Source: Press Release -- The Catholic Schools Textbook Project
1-16-15 (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
1-15-15
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
1-15-15
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
1-14-15
The Columbia professor debunks the debunker who claimed that the Underground Railroad was largely fictional
Source: Press Release -- U.S. Navy
1-13-15
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
1-13-15
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
12-17-15
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
1-12-15
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
1-9-15
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.
1-12-15
by Van Gosse
HAW says the facts were readily available.
Source: New York Magazine
1-11-15
New York Magazine survey finds that historians are most divided about Obama’s foreign policy legacy.
