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: NYT Book Review
11-26-14
Kotkin's new study depicts Stalin as an autodidact, an astute thinker, “a people person” with “surpassing organizational abilities; a mammoth appetite for work; a strategic mind and an unscrupulousness that recalled his master teacher, Lenin."
Source: Bloomberg
11-29-14
"The last thing the region needs is officially sanctioned government histories that neighbors will inevitably call propaganda."
Source: Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
11-28-14 (accessed)
"We write on behalf of many veterans of the American peace movement during the Vietnam era with a deep concern that taxpayer funds and government resources are being expended on a one-sided, three-year, $30 million educational program on the "lessons of Vietnam."
Source: The Times of India
11-28-14
Early 1973 saw Raychaudhuri move to the University of Oxford where he presided over the teaching and research of South Asian Hisory for the next 22 years.
Source: Grateful American™ Foundation
11-28-14
Journey Through Hallowed Ground, a nonprofit organization and four-state partnership based in Waterford, VA, has been dedicated to raising awareness of the unparalleled American history of the region.
Source: University of Oregon
11-26-14
As the planet warms and oceans rise, indigenous people around the world find themselves directly and disproportionately confronting climate changes that threaten long-held ways of life.
Source: The Western Star
11-27-14
Olaf Janzen is used to getting puzzled looks when he tells people the Vikings never came to Newfoundland.
Source: NYT
11-23-14
by Steven Hahn
McPherson found himself “becoming less inimical toward Davis” than he expected, and clearly more engaged with the challenges that Davis himself had to face.
Source: NPR
11-24-14
"You know, historically, when objects go to Switzerland, to Swiss institutions, to Swiss art dealers, the likelihood of restitution is not very high."--Jonathan Petropoulos
Source: Sandbox (blog)
11-25-14
Kramer calls Salaita a hater.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
11-26-14
Stanford University curriculum that is picking up steam nationally as educators grapple with widespread evidence of historical illiteracy among U.S. students.
Source: NYT
11-22-14
His best-known work, “Sir Walter Raleigh” (2004), argued for the elevation of his ancestor to the upper reaches of the pantheon of British greats, along with contemporaries like William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, based on his achievements as an explorer, courtier, poet, American colonizer and early purveyor of tobacco to England and potatoes to Ireland.
Source: The Province
11-22-14
“Do voters really want two pro-multicultural, ethnocentric candidates running our largest cities? I don’t and from my direct experience, neither do most Canadians of European origin.”
Source: Harvard Crimson
11-20-14
Steven Shapin, an emeritus professor in the History of Science department, has been awarded the 2014 Sarton Medal for Lifetime of Scholarly Achievement by the History of Science Society
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-21-14
Nathan J. Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University who will be completing a two-year term as Mesa’s president, argued this week in an email that the planned panel discussion was "about the Salaita case, not about Israel."
Source: Informed Comment
11-20-14
by Juan Cole
"There were enormous state sectors, public sectors."
Source: Politico
11-11-14
On the list are books by Carter, Hoover, Jefferson, Ike, and Grant
Source: American Historical Association
11-18-14
"Giving students access to primary sources that reflect the range of human experience within an inquiry-based instructional model encourages students to engage fully with the world they live in."
Source: The Northwestern
11-18-14
Where did baby food come from and where has it been?
Source: Smithsonian
11-18-14
Hint: Agnew’s on the list. Guess which category?
