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.
4-12-14
by Rosemarie Zagarri
It was easier in the old days.
4-11-14
by Rick Shenkman
The second full day of OAH 2014!
4-10-14
by Rick Shenkman
New rules hamper our ability to cover the convention.
4-10-14
by Rick Shenkman
What happened on the first full day of the OAH in Atlanta.
Source: KCET
4-9-14
Susan Schrepfer, who died on March, taught several generations of environmental historians how to see the forest and the trees.
Source: New Haven Register
4-8-14
Mass incarceration has become the elephant in the room of modern American history, a panel of historians said Tuesday at Yale University.
by Rick Shenkman
The annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians begins Wednesday.
Source: Daily Reveille
4-7-14
Why history? “All you have to do is look at the Ukraine. No one knows where or what that is.”
Source: Politico
4-7-14
“If I didn’t believe Abraham Lincoln could win today, I might as well give up. OK, shave the beard and get rid of the stovepipe hat. But I think he was actually sexy.”
Source: New Republic
by Sonya Michel
"This latest instance of the museum’s feckless disregard for scholarly review prompted a number of the affiliated historians to conclude that we could not, in good faith, remain on the SAC. "
Source: Harvard
4-4-14
Richard N. Frye, the Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Studies Emeritus, who was sometimes called “dean of the world’s Iranists,” passed away on March 27.
Source: University of Manchester
4-5-14
A University of Manchester academic from the School of Nursing has taken a journey back in time to help television producers recreate a 1915 field hospital for new BBC drama The Crimson Field.
Source: Daily Gazette
4-5-14
“I went to a re-enactment in Ballston Centre when I was a kid in 1980 and I was hooked.”
Source: ABP News
4-4-14
“The cherry-pickers have forced people into camps."
Source: NYT
4-6-14
by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis
Was Francis Scott Key really the 19th most important poet in history?
Source: Huff Post
4-1-14
Historians admit that the goblet's first 400 years of history are unknown.
Source: The Chronicle
4-3-14
American scholars of Hindu religion and culture say recent efforts in India to suppress the work of a prominent academic are having a chilling effect on their field.
Source: WRVO Public Media
4-2-14
"It’s been estimated by people who study the Gates website that they spent $2.3 billion to create the Common Core.”
Source: france24
4-1-14
Jacques Le Goff, one of the most influential medieval historians of modern times, died on Tuesday in a Paris hospital at the age of 90.
Source: NY Review of Books
3-20-14
by Drew Gilpin Faust
David Brion Davis, age eighty-six, has published the final volume in the trilogy he inaugurated with The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (PSWC) and continued with The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (PSAR) in 1975.
