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: Chicago Tribune
October 21, 2013
by Ralph Benko
Krugman's halo is now broken, thanks to Ferguson.
Source: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
October 17, 2013
San Diego Gay and Lesbian News profiles the distinguished historian.
Source: The Hilltop
October 17, 2013
S. Omar Badsha speaks at the Howard African Studies Department's 60th anniversary about his historical work and the protests that inspired it.
Source: Phys.org
October 17, 2013
Phys.org highlights Rosalind Williams' work exploring the responses of important authors to technology.
Source: Gilder Lehrman
October 18, 2013
Readers are encouraged to submit questions beforehand.
Source: The Daily Beast
October 17, 2013
by Eric Herschthal
Simon Winchester's "The Men Who United the States" tells the nation’s history through the creation of its infrastructure.
Source: Mother Jones
October 16, 2013
"It was refreshing how closely they followed the exact events."
Source: Associated Press
October 15, 2013
Luke Nichter and Douglas Brinkley are collaborating on the project.
Source: Fargo-Moorhead Forum
October 13, 2013
Gerald Anderson follows an old adage for authors: write what you know.
Source: Prensa Latina News Agency
October 14, 2013
Historian James Cockcroft calls upon his country to release Cuban anti-terrorists.
Source: Forbes
October 14, 2013
by Adam Ozimek
Ferguson himself needs to do a better job of admitting past mistakes.
Source: Washington Post
October 11, 2013
The fifth annual Ulysses S. Grant lecture has been canceled due to the federal shutdown.
Source: Associated Press
October 14, 2013
Lessons from America's most forgotten war.
October 10, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
The 46-year-old professor of history and gender studies faced dismissal for sleeping with students.
Source: UCR Today
October 8, 2013
Historian Denver Graninger works to establish a new branch of the AIA in Riverside, California.
Source: Huffington Post
October 8, 2013
by Niall Ferguson
What Paul Krugman gets wrong (and it's a lot).
Source: New York Times
October 7, 2013
The Princeton economist takes the Harvard historian to task.
Source: University of Virginia
October 9, 2013
PresidentialCollections.org aims to make discovering these and others materials easier for a wide audience.
Source: Associated Press
October 6, 2013
Gutman was born in Warsaw in 1923 and fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943.
Source: WBUR (Boston)
October 7, 2013
Lepore's new book is "Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin."