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: New York Times
February 17, 2014
Education historian Diane Ravitch says that very little of the curriculum taught to first graders will actually stick with them.
Source: New York Times
February 17, 2014
Doniger was "not surprised" by the decision of Penguin Books India to recall and pulp all copies of her "The Hindus: An Alternative History."
Source: Orange County Register
February 4, 2014
Steven Topik's history course at UC Irvine looks at history through the lens of a coffee cup.
Source: Wired
February 6, 2014
Twitter is sharing its massive trove of data with the academic world — for free.
Source: Hetq
February 10, 2014
Elke Hartmann: “If we remove the topic of the Genocide, we have no need to dialogue with the Turks.
Source: WGBH
February 11, 2014
Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn: "a supremely wise and forward thinking move.
Source: Tablet Magazine
February 10, 2014
Gil is remembered by his colleague Noam Stillman.
Source: History.com
February 10, 2014
Humphries writes that victims of a mysterious respiratory disease that broke out in northern China in November 1917.
Source: New York Times
February 12, 2014
Frank will write feature articles every Sunday.
Source: New York Times
February 10, 2014
The research is designed to be collaborative,
bringing curators, conservators, artists or designers and scholars
together.
Source: Medievalists.net
February 7, 2014
With the discovery, the mysterious runes can now be translated. They read "kiss me." Seriously.
Source: Opposing Views
October 31, 2013
by Michael Allen
"And today we're saying 'oh no, it's global warming.' No, we opened a door that lost God's protection over our environment and that's our choice."
Source: Press Release -- www.davidbrucesmith.com.
February 4, 2014
“You have to know where you came from to know where you are going.”
Source: The New Republic
February 4, 2014
Clark is an historian of social mobility.
Source: Charlotte News-Observer
February 2, 2014
Joe Manning has found her descendants and her name. “She was a person, not just a picture,” he said.
Source: The Courier-Journal (KY)
February 2, 2014
Ravitch spoke Saturday to the Kentucky School Boards Association.
Source: Washington Post
February 4, 2014
Reynolds worked at State for thirty years.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
January 26, 2014
How Boston College’s oral history of the Troubles fell victim
to an international murder investigation.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
January 31, 2014
Linda A. Downs, executive director of the College Art Association, isn't laughing.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
February 3, 2014
The historian's influence has been enormous, if not always obvious.
