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: WISTV
11-17-14
"My aim here...is to add texture to the experience of war. What did it mean? How did it feel?"
Source: Augusta Free Press
11-18-14
Societies tell their stories to give meaning to their world, as a way of shaping their present. The Nazis devised a narrative to justify evil.
Source: Consortiumnews.
11-17-14
"I’ve never made any secret as to what my politics are."
Source: The University of South Carolina Upstate
11-17-14
“Ante Pavelić was one of the most significant war criminals from World War II to never answer for his crimes.”
Source: Herts and Essex Observer
11-16-14
His style is uncompromising, based on an unshakeable belief in his command of facts and his clear relish for a fight.
Source: USC Annenberg
5-20-14
Sasse argues that journalists and historians have misapprehended, and indeed misreported, the story of the rise of the modern religious right.
Source: The Nation
11-24-14
by Timothy Shenk
Capitalism’s newest critics offer a groundbreaking account of slavery, but does their economic history add up?
Source: The Washington Post
11-6-14
by Charles Lane
To understand what happened in Jefferson County, you have to understand what happened next door in Douglas County, a heavily Republican suburb, over the last few years.
Source: LA Times
by Lisa Duggan
"To condemn violence against Israel while opposing a nonviolent boycott is to say that the Palestinians, under endless occupation, should not resist at all."
Source: NYT
11-6-14
The authors Robert A. Caro, Paul Auster and Jane Smiley, whose annotated first editions will be auctioned off at Christie’s, reflect on the process of revisiting their past works.
Source: AHA
11-10-14
This panel will bring together historians from all sides to critique McPherson’s work and discuss new trends and changes in Civil War scholarship.
Source: DELFI
11-12-14
Events in Ukraine have no effect on what Russia does or says, because its propaganda is not based on reality but on pushing Europe’s sensitive buttons.
Source: USC News
11-13-14
Iranian studies expert Rudi Matthee says the presiding sentiment in Iran is, “The world needs Iran more than Iran needs the world.”
Source: AHA Perspectives (Click for color graphs).
11-12-14 (accessed)
The history major is not in decline across the board.
Source: Network of Concerned Historians, where you can find steps to take action.
11-12-14
by Antoon De Baets
PEN International Writers in Prison Committee reports today that the Paraguayan writer Nelson Aguilera was sentenced to 30 months in prison for alleged plagiarism in 2013.
Source: RT
11-10-14
If the West wants to be “honest,” it should recognize, that it made a “mistake,” he said of the course of action the US and the EU adopted in the Ukrainian conflict.
Source: Raw Story
11-11-14
Apparently hoping to derail King’s acceptance of the Nobel Prize, J. Edgar Hoover had one of his deputies, William Sullivan, write a smear letter to King.
Source: West Virginia MetroNews Network
11-10-14
Clio, named after the ancient Greek muse of history, uses your present location to guide you to landmarks, museums and historic sites. Currently, there are 4,000 Clio entries nationwide.
Source: The Root
11-10-14
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Not that long ago, lest we forget, the prevailing opinion in this country was that black people had no history.
Source: Historiann (blog)
11-9-14 (accessed)
by Ann Little
"Advertising jobs nationally is now standard practice, and it’s been made even easier because of the internet. I say let’s take it all the way, and let the internet help us conduct the first-round interviews as well."
