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: Aleteia
October 23, 2014
In face of university's "secularist project," Father Miscamble advises go straight to the top.
Source: Harvard Gazette
October 22, 2014
"I had the advantage of disadvantage."
Source: Inside Higher ED
October 23, 2014
Criticism of Harvard University is coming from an unusual quarter: postal workers.
Source: Notches (blog)
October 16, 2014
The event, hosted by the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, took place in September.
Source: Live Science
October 21, 2014
The paintings, poetry and accounts of cricket matches from British psychiatric patients are among some 800,000 historic documents about to go online.
Source: Minding The Campus
October 20, 2014
by KC Johnson
"In a bit of bad luck for the ASA, the group’s annual conference is in California, a state whose sweeping civil rights law forbids … discriminating on the basis of national origin."
Source: JSTOR Daily
October 21, 2014
The newly combined archive—half in New York, half in Vilnius, Lithuania—will include 10,000 rare or unique publications and plenty of primary sources: 1.5 million letters, memoirs, and photographs.
Source: Columbia University
October 23, 2014 (accessed)
"Like any theatrical production, a lecture is not forever. You perform, and it’s gone. At some point I realized that I wanted to preserve a little bit of this.”
Source: NYT
October 22, 2014
Julius Nyang’oro was the professor of record for many of the fake classes.
Source: AHA Perspectives
October 21, 2014 (accessed)
by Lee White
They recently sent a letter to the College Board asking that implementation of the revisions be postponed.
Source: AHA's Perspectives
October 21, 2014 (accessed)
by Allen Mikaelian
While a majority of departments in the US have seen falling enrollments, those that feature women's history and other specialities have seen increases.
Source: AHA's Perspectives
October 21, 2014 (accessed)
by Jan Goldstein
The moment may have come for us to rethink “retirement.”
Source: Press Release: Business Wire
October 20, 2014
Schwarzman Scholars was inspired by the Rhodes Scholarship, which was founded in 1902 to promote international understanding and peace, and is designed to meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.
Source: The Atlantic
September 17, 2014
by Michael Ignatieff,
Doubling Down on Democracy
Source: theflickeringlamp.org
October 20, 2014
by Margo Shea
"The conference was also humbling in the best possible ways."
Source: Atlantic
October 20, 2014
by Rick Perlstein
"I hate criticizing reviews. I’m just honored people are paying attention. Then Sam Tanenhaus wrote this about a book, The Invisible Bridge, that I worked on for six years ...."
Source: Khaosod
October 17, 2014
In Thailand, criticising the monarchy is punishable by up to 15 years in prison under Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code.
October 20, 2014
by HNN Staff
It's not 1975's Thrilla in Manila, but as intellectual fights go, it's about as good as it gets.
Source: NYT
October 19, 2014
Mr. Honan wrote five major biographies in the last four decades, including books on Jane Austen and Shakespeare. Most were considered high-water marks in scholarship about their subjects.
Source: Press Release: Ancient History Encyclopedia
October 20, 2014
New collaboration expands online educational resources about the ancient world
