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: AHA Perspectives
8-11-14
by Ken McDonald
The former chief historian says that the internal history of the Bay of Pigs crisis was flawed and tendentious.
Source: The Daily Beast
8-5-14
by Scott Porch
Historian Rick Perlstein discusses the astonishing experience of listening to President Nixon’s every move on the Oval Office tapes and how his resignation forever changed America.
Source: Truthout
8-10-14
Interview with Al Carroll, author of President's Body Counts: The Twelve Worst and Four Best American Presidents Based on How Many Lived or Died Because of Their Actions, US presidents are reviewed on a wholly new basis.
Source: Daily Beast
8-8-14
by Scott Porch
"There’s a lot of garbage out there. It’s one of those things where he has been tarred and feathered with Teapot Dome. From everything I can find, he’s not involved."--John Dean
8-7-14
Stanford's Richard Meyer co-authors the first major historical survey to consider the ways in which homosexual codes and cultures yield creative resources for visual artists.
8-8-14
by HNN Staff
" At Kent State, we value collegiality and mutual respect. Assailing the public with broad statements of culpability violates these principles."
Source: The Austin Chronicle
8-8-14
What historian Douglas Brinkley heard from the 37th President may surprise you.
Source: BBC History Magazine
7-31-14
Niall Ferguson talks to Rob Attar, editor of BBC History Magazine, about why he believes Britain made a terrible mistake in joining the First World War a century ago.
Source: BBC History Magazine
7-30-14
Professor Paul Cartledge from the University of Cambridge reviews action movie Hercules.
Source: The Daily Beast
8-6-14
Nixon thought his legacy would be built on the tapes recording his every presidential move. Instead, they were his undoing.
Source: Atlantic
8-6-14
by Sam Tanenhaus
"A mission that began with every promise of reconstructing the origins of conservative “movement” politics has degenerated into a manic chronicle of what Philip Roth, in a different context, once called “Pure American Dada.”"
8-6-14
by Peter Charles Hoffer
"I think that Perlstein's reputation will survive the attack. it is precisely because it is seen as politically motivated, rather than driven by a real concern for scholarly standards, that it can be refuted as partisan malice."
Source: Times of San Diego
8-4-14
For a year now, Baron’s take-no-prisoners pen has been skewering all-comers in his column “Humoring the Headlines” for San Diego Jewish World, an online news site.
8-5-14
by HNN Staff
Who's saying what? This is where readers interested in the story can turn to find out.
Source: Social Evolution Forum
8-2-14
by Edward Turner
By publishing free-to-public data on historical societies, Seshat will soon become the world’s largest professional historical database.
Source: Oxford University Press Blog
8-2-14
John Ferling is one of the premier historians on the American Revolution.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
8-4-14
His chief complaint about recent scholarship is that it doesn't take into account why 13 colonies decided to rebel at the same time.
8-4-14
by Justin Bengry
The blog demonstrates that sex and sexuality are ‘useful categories’ for understanding political and economic histories, religious history, histories of childhood, colonialism and imperialism.
8-3-14
by HNN Staff
"It says much about Perlstein’s gifts as a historian that he persuasively portrays this sulky, slender interlude between the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan (as his subtitle has it) not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today."
Source: The Washington Post
7-31-14
by David Greenberg
The books are by Luke A. Nichter, Douglas Brinkley and Ken Hughes.
