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: The Denver Channel
September 25, 2014
Anderson said the goal of the revisions was to encourage contextualizing and analytical thinking over memorizing facts and dates -- more like a college class.
Source: EdWired
September 15, 2014
by Mills Kelly
"There is nothing in the data, either from IPEDS or from the NCES, that should give us hope for the future of our discipline."
Source: US Intellectual History blog
September 18, 2014
by Tim Lacy
Scholarship in the Age of Kindle.
Source: The Denver Channel
September 25, 2014
Dozens of students walked out of class and protested for a fifth day in Jefferson County.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
September 15, 2014
State official says changes promote critical thinking, not revisionist history.
Source: University of Wisconsin
September 25, 2014
“To receive the Robert Marshall Award is for me an affirmation not just of my scholarship, but of what I’ve always regarded as one of the most important ways I’ve tried to enact the values of the Wisconsin Idea in my work as a citizen scholar.”
Source: Winston-Salem Journal
September 23, 2014
During his career, he wrote two books, “Jonathan Worth: Biography of a Southern Unionist” in 1965 and “North Carolina During Reconstruction” in 1969.
Source: The Spectator
September 20, 2014
A review of ‘The Secret World’, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. The future Lord Dacre's early work for MI6 shaped the rest of his life.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 12, 2014
“As much as I try to explain how white supremacy works to some people in my cohort, I feel like they don’t get it. It makes me feel like my work is in vain as a black man in the academy.”
Source: Bloomberg
September 19, 2014
Kaiser and eight other members wrote to Harvard President Drew Faust demanding to know why compensation at the endowment doubled in three years.
Source: The Denver Post
September 22, 2014
"I want honesty in my classroom," the students said in a letter presented to Superintendent Dan McMinimee.
Source: Kickstarter
September 23, 2014 (accessed)
NUTS! is the story of John Brinkley, who in 1917 cures impotence via goat testicle transplantation. (Then the story really gets weird.)
Source: National Geographic
September 21, 2014
Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.
Source: Slate
September 12, 2014
“We are in a media culture where we are buried in information but we know nothing."
Source: Vulture
September 19, 2014
"Though exciting to watch, Burns’s cinematic homage muddles the history."
Source: The New Republic
September 17, 2014
In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost.
Source: Inside Higher ED
September 17, 2014
“Take it big!” Tackle major issues.
Source: KUSA
September 18, 2014
Jeffco School Board Member Julie Williams proposes to create a committee to make sure U.S. History is being taught correctly in high school.
Source: The Santa Cruz Sentinel
September 19, 2014
Goal of film is to spark social change
Source: Talking Points Memo
September 21, 2014
Texas on Wednesday moved to require its high school students to learn only state-mandated curriculum — not be taught to the national test.
