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.
January 5, 2018
by HNN Staff
What's happening at this year's annual meeting of the American Historical Association.
Source: BBC
December 26, 2018
In the 1990s she became one of the most unlikely television stars.
Source: The Washington Post
December 23, 2018
by Max Boot
A photoshopped headline made it seem that Boot had changed his opinion about troops in Syria.
Source: KUOW
December 19, 2018
The teacher warned that students were encouraging racism and antisemitism by subscfribing to the YouTuber's video channel.
Source: CNN – Fareed Zakaria, GPS
12/23/2018
Steve Pinker and Niall Ferguson join Fareed Zakaria to debate whether the world is at its safest and most prosperous, or as frightening and vulnerable as ever.
Source: Press Release: Queen Mary University of London
December 19, 2018
Queen Mary University of London is leading a major new research project, Living with Machines, which is set to be one of the biggest and most ambitious humanities and science research initiatives ever to launch in the UK.
Source: Haaretz
12/24/2018
by Jan Grabowski, Barbara Engelking, Agnieszka Haska, Jacek Leociak
They blasted him for accepting the Polish government's invitation to head the Warsaw Ghetto Museum - "a pernicious project seeking to whitewash WWII history."
Source: American Greatness
December 23, 2018
by Conrad Black
Black, who served time in prison for fraud in connection with his business activities, lambasted Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham.
Source: NYT
December 20, 2018
The pre-eminent scholar Robert Alter has finally finished his own translation.
Source: Smithsonian
December 20, 2018
Columnist David Brooks interviews the political historian about what we can learn from negative political engagement in our country’s history.
Source: The Washington Post
December 20, 2018
by David Von Drehle
This historian insists they earned the bad reputation they’ve gotten.
Source: Princeton University
December 20, 2018
On Jan. 3, 1777, British and American forces fought a critical battle of the Revolutionary War on and around the Princeton University campus. This semester, 18 students in the course “Battle Lab: The Battle of Princeton” are using hands-on fieldwork to explore how the battle may have unfolded.
Source: Patheos
12/20/2018
by John Turner
The question: To what extent should non-academics defer to academic historians on matters of history?
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 16, 2018
A few years ago, the Princeton historian brought his scholarship to hostile territory: Twitter. It made him famous and sent a message to the field that a serious scholar can also throw punches.
Source: NYT
December 14, 2018
He identified six qualities in evaluating performance in the Oval Office. (No. 1: emotional intelligence.) And as a scholar of Eisenhower, he liked Ike.
Source: Atlantic: "The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st Century"
December 13, 2018
by Adam Harris
Greg Summers is the historian who may be ending the history major at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Source: AP
December 12, 2018
No, he hasn’t finished his final volume on LBJ.
Source: Simon and Schuster (Special to HNN)
12/12/2018
He was intrigued by the entry noting that in 1721 Boston was hit by a devastating small pox epidemic. (Interview)
Source: Princeton University Press (Blog)
December 11, 2018
The quest to find the answer took him on a seven year odyssey, as he explains in this interview.
Source: Slate
December 11, 2018
Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.
