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: Roanoke Times
12-1-13
"The Burial" is now "The Exhumation" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Source: Associated Press
12-1-13
Tthe former head of the Texas Historical Commission was 88.
Source: Cornell Chronicle
12-2-13
Kammen died in Ithaca on November 29 at the age of 77.
11-27-13
by HNN staff
Robert Eugene Baker gives new meaning to the term "oral history."
Source: Hattiesburg American
11-27-13
The University of Southern Mississippi Center for
Oral History and Cultural Heritage is helming the project.
Source: University of Arkansas
11-26-13
Williams spent more than 40 years at the University of Arkansas.
Source: New York Times
11-26-13
Marriage increasingly seen out of reach to all but educated elite.
Source: Want China Times
11-25-13
Chiang Kai-shek can still teach a few lessons.
Source: The Atlantic
11-18-13
A poignant exchange between Wendy Lower, author of Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, and a Holocaust survivor and scholar.
Source: New York Times
11-15-13
Xiao Gongqin thinks Mr. Xi is very a good thing.
Source: New York Times
11-18-13
A Twitter account run by a group of German historians provides hour-by-hour updates on horrors of Kristallnacht.
Source: New York Times
11-19-13
Graham Robb’s theory on Celtic migrations.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
11-18-13
In "The Bully Pulpit," Goodwin turns her attention to Theodore Roosevelt.
Source: Telegram Towns
11-18-13
Katherine R. Jewell was at the site of the bombing in April.
Source: KPCC
11-16-13
Kennedy made the most of his youth and novelty.
Source: The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
11-18-13
by Andrew Bolt
The controversy around Justin McCarthy's visit to Australia continues.
Source: U-T San Diego
11-16-13
Grant's reputation continues to rise.
Source: Mass Live
11-17-13
Forget Marilyn. Forget Sinatra. Forget Camelot. JFK's real legacy is far more substantial.
Source: Kenosha News
11-18-13
Historians and the public often have different views on the
presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Source: Sacramento Bee
11-17-13
Alan Taylor already won a Pulitzer in 1996 -- now he's up for the National Book Award for "The
Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832."