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: Washington Times
9-10-14
by Daniel Pipes
"I can account for these errors: In 1991, no one knew that autonomous Kurdish rule in Iraq would flourish as it has."
Source: The Nation
9-15-14
by Stephen Cohen
"I have been repeatedly assailed—even in purportedly liberal publications—as Putin’s No. 1 American 'apologist.' "
Source: Politico
9-7-14
by Edward Baptist
The Economist's book review stated that slaves were treated well by their owners.
Source: The Washington Post
9-9-14
by Harold Pollack
An interview with Rick Perlstein: Reagan’s improbable success, The OPEC oil embargo, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, whether President Obama underestimated the implacability of his political opponents and what Perlstein himself has learned from critical essays written about his book.
Source: RRCHNM at George Mason University
8-28-14
This freely available website explores child custody in Virginia and nationally within a broad historical and legal context with the goal of providing an impartial, interdisciplinary resource grounded in humanities scholarship.
Source: Niall Ferguson's Twitter Account
9-8-14
They're known for a bruising battle, but on Scotland they agree.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
9-8-14
The center’s scholars strive to capture the voices of historical actors not traditionally represented in archives, like slaves and American Indians, through projects that map the past and involve the public in analyzing historical data.
Source: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
9-10-14 (accessed)
Fewer students are majoring in history, but the number of history departments has barely budged.
Source: AARP
9-9-14 (accessed)
The filmmaker, whose latest documentary, ‘The Roosevelts,’ premieres Sept. 14 on PBS, talks about their fears, personal struggles and sense of duty.
Source: NYT
9-7-14
Ms. Niven’s groundbreaking books helped revive public interest in Carl Sandburg, Edward Steichen and Thornton Wilder.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
9-8-14 (accessed)
by Daniel Pipes
"Without Turkish support, ISIS would not be where it is."
Source: The New Republic
9-6-14
by Sean Wilentz
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
9-8-14
by HNN Staff
"Sometime after I decided to go to UVA, I briefly took a job with PoliticsNJ.com, run by an anonymous editor who went by the name of a long-deceased governor of New Jersey named Walter "Wally" Edge. Wally, I learned years later, was David Wildstein."
Source: Xenia Gazette
9-6-14
When J. Murray Murdoch first began teaching at Cedarville University, Lyndon B. Johnson was president, gas was about $.30 a gallon and “The Sound of Music” made its premier.
Source: Los Angeles Times
9-5-14
Williams taught anthropology, gender studies and history at USC for about two decades until he quit in 2011.
Source: NYT
9-5-14
If all goes well, the Big History Project will be introduced in hundreds of more classrooms by next year and hundreds, if not thousands, more the year after that.
Source: Sandbox (blog)
9-4-14
by Martin Kramer
No university has more senior faculty boycotters signed on this letter than Columbia.
Source: NYT
9-4-14
Professor Katz wrote more than a dozen books chronicling public welfare policies in the United States from the start of the republic through the 20th century.
Source: AHA
9-4-14 (accessed)
This decline is especially disconcerting when we consider that the overall economy has been improving and the US jobless rate declining.
Source: AHA
8-31-14
Letter of Concern to University of Illinois Chancellor Regarding Salaita Case (2014)
