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: Times of India
October 3, 2013
Churchill wrote in an internal memo to the India Office that gas should be used in the Northwest Frontier.
Source: Memphis Flyer
October 8, 2013
We're in a period of transition, but it's not like books are going extinct.
Source: New York Times
October 5, 2013
Goodwyn's "Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in
America" is still a standard text.
Source: Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
October 6, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
The Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette profiles efforts to organize non-tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois.
Source: NPR
October 5, 2013
NPR features Diderot as a lost historical gem.
Source: Wall Street Journal
October 2, 2013
Ramachandra Guha is a leading authority on Indian history.
Source: WBUR (Boston)
October 1, 2013
Government shutdowns used to be pretty common until the 1990s, but they were skirmishes, not battles -- certainly not wars.
Source: ABC News (Australia)
October 2, 2013
One of the editors of the new Cambridge History of Australia is the
prolific and left leaning academic professor Stuart Macintyre.
Source: Houston Chronicle
October 1, 2013
Goodwyn founded the civil rights-era Texas Coalition.
Source: Minot Daily News
September 30, 2013
by Andrea Johnson
Jason Morgan objected to being "re-educated."
Source: Associated Press
October 1, 2013
Seventy-year-old Edward Constant II was sentenced Monday.
Source: Gainsville Sun
September 30, 2013
Alan Petigny, 48, apparently died of natural causes.
Source: New York Times
September 27, 2013
by Edward Rothstein
A new research library has just opened at Mount Vernon.
Source: The Economist
September 21, 2013
A damning verdict on the bombing campaign in Europe during the second world war...
September 25, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
The much-hyped book is under fire from film critics and film historians.
Source: NOLA.com
September 25, 2013
Logsdon shares credit with Sue Eakins, who is the more widely-cited expert in the media.
Source: Boston Magazine
September 25, 2013
Fleming is one of two historians in this year's crop of winners.
Source: Cornell Daily Sun
September 24, 2013
Negotiation and cooperation may be taking the place of a historically more aggressive approach.
Source: Princeton Daily Patch
September 25, 2013
The Rutgers historian won for her work on African history and public health.
September 24, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
The acclaimed historian of science spent fifteen years at UC San Diego.