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: Rolling Stone
October 9, 2018
by Sean Wilentz
"After Kavanaugh’s performance and his strong-armed confirmation, the 5-to-4 decisions that ensue will at least clarify exactly what the long-term right-wing campaign has been all about.” (It’s not originalism.)
Source: The Activist History Review
October 16, 2018
by Marley-Vincent Lindsey
Yes, says this history grad student in an editorial for the Activist History Review.
Source: The Daily Beast
October 16, 2018
In a new book, the Nebraska lawmaker—known for his unease with Trump-era conservative rhetoric—donned his media hat and went after right-wing media's biggest star.
Source: NYT
October 12, 2018
She used "food as a prism to explore social and cultural trends that, perhaps surprisingly, resonate in debates of today."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
10/15/18
by Jonathan Zimmerman
"When we insulate ourselves from others, we narrow our minds."
Source: Informed Comment
October 12, 2018
by Juan Cole
But unlike his colleague John Cheney-Lippold, he would write a letter for a student going to Tel Aviv University.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 11, 2018
"I’ve experienced more harassment than anywhere else I’ve worked."
Source: American Historical Association
October 10, 2018
The prizes will be awarded at the annual convention. But here's the list now.
Source: National Book Awards website
10/10/18
The nominees for the non-fiction award include Colin G. Calloway, Victoria Johnson, Jeffrey C. Stewart and Adam Winkler.
Source: OUPblog
October 10, 2018
Some regarded him as the “Town Destroyer,” while others referred to him as “great father."
Source: Time Magazine
October 10, 2018
by Alex Rosenberg
We may be hardwired to tell history as a story but neuroscience proves that this isn’t the path to truth, says Alex Rosenberg.
Source: The Daily Tar Heel
October 10, 2018
"It was my civic duty.”
Source: Inside Higher Ed
October 9, 2018
In her new book Donna Zuckerberg explains how the Alt-Right have adopted the classics and why.
Source: Time Magazine
October 9, 2018
The worst parts of that history are still worth worrying about.
Source: The Hamilton Gazette
October 5, 2018
It’s a long story.
Source: NYT
October 6, 2018
The scoop? LBJ rejected Gen. Westmoreland proposal to deploy nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
Source: Vox
October 5, 2018
“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
October 5, 2018
Meet some of the most famous teachers in history.
Source: The Telegraph
October 6, 2018
“What I have done is used my own experience of mourning and of joy.”
Source: Yale News
October 4, 2018
Joanne B. Freeman reports that published sources to violence in the antebellum Congress were often veiled. The dirt was in diaries and letters.
