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: Politico
11-3-13
Activists seek Barton to run against Sen. John Cornyn.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11-4-13
Michael
Ignatieff was an historian... until he became a failed politician.
Source: The Daily Show
10-30-13
Diane Ravitch defends the public school system.
Source: Associated Press
10-31-13
"The Bully Pulpit" chronicles the friendship between Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
Source: New York Times
10-31-13
Anthony Grafton: Sometimes I feel like a comic strip character whose face is getting smaller and smaller.
Source: Athens Banner-Herald
10-29-13
The University of Georgia historian passed away Monday at the age of 70.
10-30-13
by HNN Staff
If you receive an unsolicited email from an "academic" journal, please, due diligence.
Source: La Porte Herald Argus (IN)
10-28-13
The McCarthy era and the Civil War stand out as examples.
Source: National Public Radio
10-24-13
"We love being the country that freed the slaves ... [but] we're not so fond of being the country that had the biggest slave system on the planet."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10-25-13
by Stacey Patton
The story of medievalist Melissa Bruninga-Matteau.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
10-29-13
The historically black North Carolina state university is considering ending its degree programs in physics, political science, and history.
Source: Arkansas Online
10-27-13
Roy Wilson has researched history and taught secondary education for forty years. He explains how his two endeavors compliment each other.
Source: The Daily Beast
10-27-13
by Ted Widmer
No historian has ever been as close to power as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was to President Kennedy.
Source: The New Republic
10-24-13
But historian Michael Hiltzik says Obama could've learned a few lessons from FDR.
Source: National Public Radio
10-16-13
The Dulles brothers shaped Cold War-era America.
Source: Los Angeles Times
10-23-13
"We live very much in a world Woodrow Wilson created."
Source: Brandeis University
10-22-13
Eugene Black leaves behind a legacy of service at Brandeis.
Source: The Atlantic
10-21-13
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates admires Tony Judt's opus "Postwar" for its criticism of the "clean" political ideology of World War II and its aftermath.
Source: CBS This Morning
10-11-13
Dallek is an award-winning biographer of the thirty-fifth president.
Source: New York Times
10-21-13
Ramachandra Guha is one of India’s foremost public intellectuals
and historians. “Gandhi Before India,” his first volume of a two-part
biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, was published in India earlier this
month.
