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: The Way Improvement Leads Home (blog)
July 20, 2018
He earns $4 million a year.
Source: Fox News
July 22, 2018
Stephanie Jass, who taught at Michigan’s Adrian College, admitted to inappropriately logging into the email accounts of fellow professors, administrators and students.
Source: Twitter
July 20, 2018
" I oppose the appointment of someone who has, up until today, been a dedicated defender of the Trump administration and its values." – Nicole Hemmer
7/23/18
Recently, there's been an upsurge in complaints.
Source: Herald-Dispatch
July 19, 2018
The Clio app picks up a user's location anywhere in the United States and tells him or her about the history and culture that surrounds him or her.
Source: Informed Comment
July 20, 2018
by Juan Cole
“The Israeli parliament or Knesset has passed a law openly declaring Palestinians to be second-class citizens.”
Source: Jewish News
July 18, 2018
The charge was leveled after Croatia’s parliament passed legislation last month barring public access to archive materials on individuals aged 100 and over, living and deceased.
Source: The Washington Post
July 16, 2018
by Waitman Wade Beorn
Parallels lie in authoritarianism, racism, ethnic myths and dehumanizing language, not the Final Solution.
Source: CNBC
July 15, 2018
Populists, he says, are "selling people nostalgic fantasies about the past instead of real visions for the future.”
Source: The Times of London
July 13, 2018
George Garnett reports that 88 belonged to horses and humans accounted for the others.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 12, 2018
A letter raising concerns about proposed sessions that were rejected for the International Congress on Medieval Studies has drawn hundreds of signatures.
Source: NPR
July 11, 2018
In an interview Dallek says that FDR always worked hard to win over large majorities for social change, unlike Trump, who plays to his base.
Source: Haaretz
July 11, 2018
The book has been translated into some 30 languages and sold some 8 million copies worldwide.
Source: The Washington Post
July 12, 2018
by Matthew A. Sears
Even by the standards of their day, many heroes of Western civilization engaged in immoral acts, he notes.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
July 12, 2018
Medieval studies groups say a major conference is trying to limit the number of diverse voices and topics. The debate is part of a bigger fight over whether medieval studies should remain a fundamentally European field.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 9, 2018
by Jonathan Zimmerman
That’s sparked a controversy about what she’ll be earning.
Source: Politico
July 9, 2018
The Republican senator and persistent Trump critic stokes speculation about his intentions with a soon-to-publish book and new nonprofit.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
July 9, 2018
The American Historical Association this week launches Where Historians Work an online tool tracking career outcomes for the more than 8,500 historians who earned their Ph.D.s at U.S. institutions between 2004 and 2014.
Source: The Triangle
June 29, 2018
by Robert Zaller
In an op ed for the student newspaper Robert Zaller says “this country is in the deepest and most awful trouble any of us have known.”
Source: Network of Concerned Historians
7/7/18
Where historians are being assaulted, attacked and sidelined around the world.
