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: NPR
January 31, 2018
Historian Elizabeth Catte takes on J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
Source: Salon
January 30, 2018
by Jeanne Theoharis
In a new book the political scientist and historian argues that the protests of Black Lives Matter are, contrary to the critics, fully in keeping with those of the sixties.
Source: Literary Hub
January 31, 2018
by T.J. Stiles
His answer? 400 years of tribalism, genocide, explosion and imprisonment.
Source: NYT
January 31, 2018
Mr. Pincus-Witten, who wrote for Artforum magazine for nearly 50 years, was credited with coining the term Post-Minimalism.
Source: Facebook
January 29, 2018
by Heather Cox Richardson
His belief that rich people know better.
Source: Inside Higher ED
January 31, 2018
Editor Alex Lichtenstein says his project involves "Decolonizing the AHR."
Source: Harvard Gazette
1/29/18
"One factor that underlies most of these breakdowns is extreme polarization."
Source: The Local
January 30, 2018
The collaborator appeared at Copenhagen City court in a defamation case against historian Bent Jensen and publisher Gyldendal over two statements made in the 2014 book Ulve, får og vogtere I (Wolves, Sheep and Guards I).
Source: The Guardian
January 27, 2018
Historians hit back as former skills minister Robert Halfon seeks to axe government subsidies for people who study the subject.
Source: The Malay Mail Online
January 29, 2018
Anatoly Razumov says his work is greeted with “indifference” at home.
Source: ABC7
January 28, 2018
The teacher is a Pico Rivera city councilman.
Source: The New Yorker
1/29/18
Speaking publicly for the first time, the historian reveals the crucial role that he and a small band of others played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.
Source: UVA Today (University of Virginia)
1/26/18
“He has neither improved relations with Russia, which he had stated he wanted to do, nor constrained Russian actions in Ukraine or Syria, nor confronted Putin over electoral intervention here and in Europe.”
Source: Financial Times
January 26, 2018
Ahead of the BBC’s nine-part ‘Civilisations’ series, the presenter and historian picks his personal wonders of the world.
Source: Florida State University News (Press Release)
1/26/18
Annika A. Culver surveyed the state of Florida for examples of college courses on the history and culture of North Korea, she was surprised to come up empty.
Source: Vox
January 25, 2018
Sam Brownback, new ambassador for religious freedom, is an admirer of controversial “scholar” David Barton.
Source: The Washington Post
January 23, 2018
by Niall Ferguson
The reason Obama never went is that, aside from raising campaign funds from them, he had little real use for businessmen. Trump, by contrast, is a businessman.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
January 24, 2018
Stephan Templ, imprisoned over disputed fraud charges, chronicles how modern-day Austria gave its seal of approval for flawed restitution practices that were overseen by former Nazis.
Source: The American Conservative
January 24, 2018
by Andrew Bacevich
"The NDS contains several extraordinary statements. Yet none top this one: 'Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy.’ ”
Source: Politico
January 22, 2018
Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.
