Historians in the News

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.

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• SOURCE: Commentary
  7-30-14
  

  Why Benny Morris is both right and wrong

  by Max Boot

  Morris is surely right. Hamas remains dedicated to Israel’s destruction and it remains intent on keeping its grip on Gaza. What can or should Israel do about it?

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• SOURCE: MWC News
  7-28-14
  

  Professor Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen to be a 'Racist Apartheid State'

  "I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy," Pappé says.

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• SOURCE: Townhall
  7-30-14
  

  History Professor: Convicted Cop Killer Mumia Should Be Celebrated Like Martin Luther King Jr. in Schools

  "Essentially by the end of his life, Martin Luther King like Mumia Abu Jamal, was a radical."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-30-14
  

  Robert Drew, Cinema Verite Documentarian, Dies at 90

  Filmmaker Robert Drew mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors .

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• SOURCE: Salon
  7-30-14
  

  Rick Perlstein: “Ronald Reagan absolved America almost in a priestly role not to have to contend with sin. The consequences are all around us today”

  "From climate change to foreign affairs, Reagan pushed America toward easy lies, just as reckoning seemed possible."

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  7-5-14
  

  History wars are raging in East Asia

  This time the bickering has spread beyond Japan and China, its usual homes.

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• SOURCE: Mosaic Magazine
  7-30-14 (accessed)
  

  Round 2: It's Benny Morris vs. Martin Kramer ... Was there a massacre in 1948 in Lydda?

  Morris takes off the gloves in a debate about what happened in Lydda.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  7-31-14
  

  World War I Anniversary: Five Historians, Two Questions

  A century after the outbreak of World War I, can we now answer the eternal question -- who was to blame?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-29-14
  

  While French historians take a common view of WW I, British and German don't

  by Sylvie Kauffmann

  "While our German and British neighbors have been passionately debating theories about the origins of the war or its utility, all is quiet on the French front."

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Magazine
  7-29-14
  

  Historian: Proclamation Naming Pa. State Gun Gets Facts Wrong

  A historian who once lived in Berks County says the bill that designated the Pennsylvania long rifle as the official state gun is riddled with errors.

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• SOURCE: Irish Central
  7-29-14
  

  Irish slave owners were compensated historian reveals

  Hogan writes that the British paid slave owners over $30 million in compensation for the loss of their ‘property.’

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-29-14
  

  Two historians are in a race against time to preserve early church records from destruction

  The historians are racing against inexorable church closings, occasional fires, and a more mundane but not uncommon peril: the actual loss of documents, which most often occurs when a church elder dies.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6-24-14
  

  Yale's Jay Winter sums up what we should remember about WW I

  Jay Winter has spent his adult life trying to figure out the war that didn't end all wars but opened the bloody gates of 20th century industrial slaughter.

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• SOURCE: Cabinet of Plagiarism
  7-24-14
  

  Plagiarism scandals galore … but no consequences?

  by Ann Ribidoux

  "Is it the summer of plagiarism?"

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7-24-14
  

  Stephen Cohen was once considered a top Russia historian. Now he publishes odd defenses of Vladimir Putin, says critic

  by Cathy Young

  "The Nation just published his most outrageous one yet."

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• 7-27-14
  

  Historian who calls bull&%$@ on July 4th parade causes controversy

  by HNN Staff

  "We need to stop these displays of nonsense history."

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  7-26-14 (accessed)
  

  This is what motivated history students in high school and middle school can do!

  Amazing work being done by students in Texas.

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• SOURCE: White House
  7-22-14
  

  Obama to award National Humanities Medals to 3 historians

  Awards will go to David Brion Davis, Darlene Clark Hine and Anne Firor Scott.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-23-14
  

  Historian Curt Gentry, known for Hoover biography and ‘Helter Skelter,’ dies at 83

  Mr. Gentry had wide-ranging interests as a historian.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7-24-14
  

  Harvard historian: strategy of climate science denial groups 'extremely successful'

  Professor Naomi Oreskes says actions of climate denialists are laying the foundations for the government interventions they fear the most.