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: Grateful American Foundation
12-24-14 (accessed)
by David Bruce Smith
Doug Bradburn has run the Mount Vernon library since 2013.
Source: The Blaze
12-22-14
Conservative historian David Barton has given away the money he won as the result of a $1 million judgement issued earlier this year.
12-22-14
by Edwin Black
He helped numerous historians gain access to archives people and companies (like IBM) wanted to keep secret.
Source: Fulton Sun
12-21-14
James Williams, formerly the director of the Albert Gore Research Center in Tennessee, was recently appointed as the director of the National Churchill Museum.
Source: The Times-Picayune
12-18-14
Dr. Schafer, who earned a doctorate in history at Tulane, described what she did as "street history," said Margaret Keenan, a Tulane colleague. "She was looking at people that historians haven't always looked at -- slaves, prostitutes -- but who left records."
Source: Northwestern University Press
9-1-14
Nation and World, Church and God gathers original critical reflections by leading writers and scholars on Garry Wills’s life work.
12-19-14
They’re upset he assigned a book on Israel by Alan Dershowitz and then asked students to critique it
Source: NYT Mag
12-18-14
by Wil S. Hylton
The author of "Unbroken" and "Seabiscuit" is profiled in a long New York Times Magazine profile.
Source: The Root
12-17-14
Just as the U.S. has announced a resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba, there will now be a way for Americans to learn more about the history of Afro-Cubans and other descendants of Africa across the Caribbean and Latin America.
Source: The National Interest
12-16-14
The Council on Foreign Relations named Gary J. Bass’s The Blood Telegram the best book on international relations of 2014.
Source: NY Review of Books
12-14-14
by Martin Filler
Rosemarie Haag Bletter discovers blue faux marbre, high above gilded column capitals and bosses.
Source: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
12-8-14
The three-time NYT bestselling author takes on Slate’s Jacob Weisberg.
12-15-14
by Pearl Duncan
Pearl Duncan discloses how a search of DNA records surprised her.
Source: American Historical Association's Perspectives
12-15-14 (accessed)
by Jim Grossman
The petition missed the deadline set for the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Someone at the Business Meeting of the AHA could still put the issue on the agenda.
Source: Baptist Press
12-11-14
"Christianity is a religion that was born in Africa and Asia and, in our lifetimes, has decided to go home.” — Baylor University’s Philip Jenkins.
Source: The National Post
12-12-14
Then she discovered Wonder Woman offered fresh insights to feminism.
Source: NYT
12-10-14
Mr. Marks wrote five books that chronicled kosher menus through the centuries and examined the role of food in the establishment and growth of cultural traditions.
Source: AHA Today
12-3-14
AHA is concerned about loosening of requirements for social studies.
Source: AHA Perspectives
12-1-14
by Monica Green
Historians haven't traditionally welcomed scientists into their corner of research, but they should -- and now we're doing it.
Source: Press Release
12-5-14
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton says a key step has been to establish a commission.
