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
November 3, 2013
Activists seek Barton to run against Sen. John Cornyn.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
November 4, 2013
Michael
Ignatieff was an historian... until he became a failed politician.
Source: The Daily Show
October 30, 2013
Diane Ravitch defends the public school system.
Source: Associated Press
October 31, 2013
"The Bully Pulpit" chronicles the friendship between Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
Source: New York Times
October 31, 2013
Anthony Grafton: Sometimes I feel like a comic strip character whose face is getting smaller and smaller.
Source: Athens Banner-Herald
October 29, 2013
The University of Georgia historian passed away Monday at the age of 70.
October 30, 2013
by HNN Staff
If you receive an unsolicited email from an "academic" journal, please, due diligence.
Source: La Porte Herald Argus (IN)
October 28, 2013
The McCarthy era and the Civil War stand out as examples.
Source: National Public Radio
October 24, 2013
"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
October 25, 2013
by Stacey Patton
The story of medievalist Melissa Bruninga-Matteau.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
October 29, 2013
The historically black North Carolina state university is considering ending its degree programs in physics, political science, and history.
Source: Arkansas Online
October 27, 2013
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
October 27, 2013
by Ted Widmer
No historian has ever been as close to power as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was to President Kennedy.
Source: The New Republic
October 24, 2013
But historian Michael Hiltzik says Obama could've learned a few lessons from FDR.
Source: National Public Radio
October 16, 2013
The Dulles brothers shaped Cold War-era America.
Source: Los Angeles Times
October 23, 2013
"We live very much in a world Woodrow Wilson created."
Source: Brandeis University
October 22, 2013
Eugene Black leaves behind a legacy of service at Brandeis.
Source: The Atlantic
October 21, 2013
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
October 11, 2013
Dallek is an award-winning biographer of the thirty-fifth president.
Source: New York Times
October 21, 2013
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.
