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: Salon
May 22, 2014
by Heather Digby Parton
"Ben Sasse believes that our right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life."--Ben Sasse website
Source: Financial Times
May 23, 2014
The FT found mistakes and unexplained entries in his spreadsheets.
Source: The Irish Times
May 22, 2014
Material already handed over only accounts for small portion of interviews with former IRA paramilitaries
Source: BBC
May 21, 2014
Dr Anthony McIntyre, who conducted the interviews with former IRA members, said he was shocked to learn that a news organisation had attempted to have the documents released.
Source: TWC News
May 23, 2014
"He was a unique individual with unique gifts and talents and a knack for making everyone he encountered comfortable with him.”
Source: Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
May 22, 2014
Dr. Jonathan Holloway and Dr. Alondra Nelson have been appointed deans at Columbia and Yale University.
Source: The Guardian
January 10, 2014
He was surely the best-read historian of his age, yet the labour never shows; his midnight oil must have been of the lightest extra-virgin variety.
Source: Coordinating Council for Women’s History
5-22-14 (date accessed)
Petition expressing concern now has more than 500 signatures.
Source: NYPost
May 21, 2014
He must continue to attend therapy as part of a no-jail plea deal.
Source: The Republic
May 21, 2014
Sherow says he wants to promote cooperation in Congress and represent the Kansas district's agricultural interests.
Source: WaPo
May 20, 2014
He wins the George Washington Book Prize.
Source: Sault Star
May 20, 2014
Conservatives believe if they are to truly replace the Liberals as the dominant federal party, the country's history needs to be told in a way in which Conservative values and vision are emphasized.
Source: Democracy Now
May 20, 2014
Harding was a well-known historian and scholar, and friend, colleague and former speechwriter for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: Houston Chronicle
May 19, 2014
Radu Florescu was a Romanian-born historian, professor and philanthropist who intrigued American popular culture by writing a book linking the fictional Count Dracula to the 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler.
Source: AP
May 19, 2014
He received the seventh annual Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award for distinguished writing in American history.
Source: American Historical Association
May 19, 2014
House Science Committee to Vote on FIRST Act.
Source: ThinkAdvisor.com
May 16, 2014
The Harvard economic historian says monetary tapering hasn’t even started but ‘geopolitical tapering’ is well underway.
Source: Boston.com
May 17, 2014
Faust, 66, joins a growing group of private college presidents to surpass the $1 million mark as university leaders are increasingly paid like executives running large companies.
Source: Telegraph
May 16, 2014
Philip Sugden, who has died aged 67, was the first academic historian to apply scholastic rigour to the notoriously flaky field of “Ripperology.”
Source: KyivPost
May 15, 2014
Snyder stressed that Ukraine has a “very typical European history,” noting its Renaissance, Reformation, and counter-reformation during the rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
