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: Time Magazine
June 21, 2018
So Time Magazine asked 7 historians for their thoughts. Who else besides Jack Johnson should get a pardon?
Source: The Conversation
June 21, 2018
by April-Louise Pennant and Nando Sigona
It is far more common for students to become familiar with Britain’s “heroic” involvement in the abolition of slavery in the 19th century than with the financial benefit Britain wrought from the slave trade in the two centuries beforehand.
Source: Anadolu Agency
June 20, 2018
“We know that Commander [Louis] Faidherbe, who gave the name to Dakar's biggest street today, killed 20,000 people in eight months.”
Source: Salon
June 20, 2018
Historian Jon Meacham told “Morning Joe” that Trump’s “a return to the most disturbing elements of white supremacy.”
Source: NYT
June 21, 2018
No Roman Empire. No Mongols. No ancient Chinese dynasties or early Indian states. And you can forget about the Incan and Aztec empires before the Europeans dropped their anchors.
Source: Pioneer Institute Press Release
June 21, 2018
“Support for the U.S. history graduation requirement has remained strong despite the anti-testing backlash we’ve seen in recent years."
Source: BBC
June 20, 2018
She wants to open up academic debates to a wider public, but she says a really important part of the message must be to make people realize that things can be “complicated.”
Source: The Guardian
June 19, 2018
Critics say the curriculum over-emphasizes the study of Winston Churchill.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
June 20, 2018 (accessed)
by Daniel Pipes
In brief, the world's chief trouble spot will retain its role, only more so.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 17, 2018
by Stanley Fish
He says they (and others) should stop trying to sell the humanities, claiming the effort will backfire.
Source: NYT
June 17, 2018
by Paul Krugman
In a recent blog post he says he’s been reading a lot of Roman history and has concluded the Romans used soft power just as we used to.
Source: The Washington Post
June 18, 2018
by Jennifer Rubin
But a conservative columnist says he keeps failing to take action.
Source: The Conversation
June 15, 2018
by Randall J. Stephens
They’ll continue to vote Republican as they did after Nixon’s fall.
Source: NYT
June 15, 2018
For nearly 40 years, Mr. Reese shaped tastes, cultivated collectors and advised museums and libraries from his by-appointment-only store in New Haven.
Source: JSTOR
June 15, 2018
They tried to prevent the Trail of Tears.
Source: Special to HNN
6/17/18
by John Prados
In an open letter to the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, a leading foreign policy historian says the group has shown poor judgment.
Source: Express
June 11, 2018
The European Union is so poorly prepared for the challenges of the modern world that it may not exist in 10 years time.
Source: Library of Congress Press Release
6/12/18
The prize, bestowed through the generosity of the late John W. Kluge, will be awarded during a gala ceremony in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress on Sept. 12, 2018.
Source: NYT
June 11, 2018
by Charles Seguin
"We should welcome The Montgomery Advertiser’s efforts to come clean about the past. It is well past time that other papers, both Northern and Southern, follow their example."
Source: CNN
June 1, 2018
by Julian Zelizer
“The GOP opened the door to this kind of politics — the disregard for norms of governance, the adversarial posture toward institutions, and the willingness to throw into the public conversation arguments that are untrue."
