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 Federalist
9-17-14
"Five Reasons The College Board’s U.S. History Talking Points Are Wrong"
Source: EdWeek
9-18-14 (accessed)
"We reiterate our belief that the Curriculum Framework will result in a better AP course for students and their teachers."
Source: Louis D. Brandeis Center
9-17-14
"We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the misuse of federal funds under Title VI of the Higher Education Act (“HEA”). "
Source: UVA
9-17-14
100 years later, what should we make of Charles Beard's contributions?
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
9-8-14
by Claire Potter
"OK, University of Illinois Board of Trustees chair Chris Kennedy did not exactly say that to University of Minnesota Native American Studies scholar Jean O’Brien, who had written to express her distress over the Steven Salaita #HireFire."
Source: MacArthur Foundation
9-16-14
Pamela O. Long is a historian of science and technology. Tara Zahra is a historian of modern Europe.
Source: Daily Show
9-16-14
Burns describes in riveting detail what drove TR, FDR and Eleanor ... Fear.
Source: The History Vaukt (UK)
9-14-14
Here, eleven historians share the ‘Eureka moment’ that set them on course to specialising in their chosen field.
Source: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
9-14-14
by Nathan Pippenger
There’s trouble afoot in Texas, where a recent watchdog review of proposed new social studies textbooks for Grades 6-12 has found a whole slew of problems.
Source: The Daily Beast
9-16-14
Forty years ago today, Caro’s magisterial 1,296-page life of New York master builder Robert Moses rewrote the rules of biography.
Source: The Electronic Infitada
9-15-14
“Is not the very fact of defining oneself as a Jew within the State of Israel an act of affiliation to a privileged caste which creates intolerable injustices around itself?”
Source: Columbia University Press Release
9-15-14 (accessed)
Free history courses to reach educators and students worldwide, expanding Columbia’s online teaching initiatives
Source: Raw Story
9-14-14
“I think if he were running now, sadly, I think TV crews would compete with each other to see who could get the footage that showed him at his most helpless. He had to be carried in and out of buildings. He had to be helped to remove his braces and so on.”
Source: NYT Book Review
9-5-14
"On display is a kind of intellect now so rare as to be endangered, if not extinct."
Source: NYT
9-12-14
Ward, who himself contracted Polio as a child, goes on camera in the new series--a first.
Source: The Nation
9-11-14
That’s the lesson of the decline and fall of the Safavid Empire (Persia)
Source: NYT
9-8-14
Given the multiplying foreign policy emergencies in the headlines, from the advance of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the face-off between Russia and Ukraine, the subject of Henry Kissinger’s new book, “World Order,” could not be more timely.
Source: The Dallas Morning News
9-10-14
"The reviewers laid out numerous errors and shortcomings in the books, such as political cartoons that make fun of affirmative action programs and present “ideologically slanted” views on government and social security taxes."
Source: Chalkbeat Colorado
9-10-14
Members of the State Board of Education Wednesday got it from both sides in the culture wars controversy over the new Advanced Placement U.S. history course and test.
Source: Newswise
9-11-14
"If someone is dangerous enough to fight then you fight to win."
