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: Inside Higher Ed
January 30, 2014
Art historians remain confused about what "fair use" laws actually allow.
Source: Associated Press
January 30, 2014
Meacham said that FDR and Lincoln did not "rebuild" the country through executive orders.
Source: The Guardian
January 30, 2014
A proposal to bar senior members of the International Studies Association from blogging has drawn the ire of academics.
Source: The Guardian
January 30, 2014
Historian Niall Ferguson says Britain could have lived with German victory and should have stayed out of war.
January 29, 2014
David Bruce Smith has a mission: to get young people more
interested in American history.
Source: InfoSerbia
January 25, 2014
Austrian historian Manfried Rauchensteiner spoke about the causes of the
war, saying that they originated not only from the Balkans, but from
the other regions of Europe, too.
Source: Inquisitr
January 23, 2014
BBC historian Christopher Lee says Kate and William are "dull and inoffensive."
Source: NBC 7 (San Diego)
January 27, 2014
San Diegan, Craig Gottlieb, purchased a passport that he believes was used by Josef Mengele, a.k.a the “Angel of Death,” to flee to Argentina in 1949.
Source: WSB Radio
January 23, 2014
Mahan misused government resources, engaged in improper conduct in the workplace and even promised the same Deputy Historian job to two subordinates.
Source: AHA Today
January 28, 2014
An itemized list of AHA decisions from 2013.
Source: AHA Today
January 27, 2014
The committee will establish evaluation standards.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
January 26, 2014
The saga of the most controversial oral history program in the United States.
Source: The New Republic
January 25, 2014
Richard Evans discusses parallels between 1914 and 2014 with The New Republic's Isaac Chotiner.
Source: New York Times
January 27, 2014
Randolph L. Braham, himself a Holocaust survivor, returned the award after Hungarian efforts to downplay that country's role as a German ally in World War II.
Source: New York Times
January 28, 2014
The massive numbers of Jews killed by advancing German soldiers still remain hazy in popular historical memory.
Source: Reuters
January 24, 2014
The oldest documents still classified include a 1662 report on the slave trade.
Source: Al Jazeera
January 3, 2014
SBOE member Ruben Cortez submitted a November 21 request to include Mexican-American studies.
Source: Voice of Russia
January 22, 2014
Up to another million may have been killed, argues Antoine Prost.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 22, 2014
Frances Levine last ran the New Mexico History Museum.
Source: National Coalition for History
January 14, 2014
The National Coalition for History has created a chart showing the budgets of all major programs affecting history, archives, and education.
