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: Channel 9 TV Denver
October 2, 2014
Opponents accuse board majority of breaking policy
Source: NYT
October 2, 2014
The author, most recently, of “Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief” says that coming of age in Minnesota in the ’50s, he saw the South as “a mysterious, almost foreign land.”
Source: Huffington Post
September 29, 2014
by Charles B. Strozier and Kelly A. Berkell
Drought did not singlehandedly spawn the Syrian uprising, but it stoked simmering anger at Assad's dictatorship.
Source: AP
October 2, 2014
It's not immediately clear whether the new committee will review the AP US history course.
Source: Stanford Press Release
October 2, 2014
Theodore Roosevelt was president of the United States when George Knoles was born. Nineteen presidents later, on Aug. 27, the Stanford history professor died, having seen a century of history firsthand.
Source: 9 News (Denver TV station)
October 2, 2014
Students let the Jefferson County school board know they want history warts and all.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
October 1, 2014
"[The] technique of monitoring lectures, symposia and conferences strains the basic principle of academic freedom on which the American university is built."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 2, 2014
A conversation with a group of biologists who study climate change led R. Scott Appleby, a historian, to refine some of his thinking about the new school he would lead at the University of Notre Dame.
Source: Active History
October 2, 2014
“If you want to learn anything about the history of this country, you have to start listening to Carlos Varela.”
Source: eTurboNews
October 1, 2014
The speakers assembled in London to debate the motion ‘The Indian sub-continent benefited more than it lost from the experience of British Colonialism.’
Source: PBS
October 7, 2014
Henry Louis Gates uncovers Americans' unsuspecting ancestry in his PBS series. The latest to face a surprising truth -- Ken Burns.
Source: History Extra
October 2, 2014 (accessed)
"There is no automatic cut-off point for when history stops and current affairs begin."
Source: Americans Against the Tea Party
September 26, 2014
Pictures and videos from Colorado.
Source: Twitter
October 1, 2014
A tweet that says it all.
September 30, 2014
by Ron Eisenman
A compelling reason to learn about Korea is that there are 1.5 million Koreans in America, many with incredible stories.
Source: Committee on LGBT History
September 30, 2014 (accessed)
A 2011 law in California requires schools to teach gay history.
Source: The Daily Free Press
September 30, 2014
It will replicate the course he taught for years at BU: War for the Greater Middle East
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
September 29, 2014
by Mark Carnes
"During the past decade, some faculty members and administrators have discovered that the motivational power of "bad play" can be harnessed to academic purposes."
Source: AP
September 29, 2014
Classes were canceled at Golden and Jefferson high schools after 81 percent and 70 percent of teachers called in sick respectively.
Source: Vox
September 29, 2014
by Zack Beauchamp
"There's been tension between Hong Kong and Beijing for some time. When did it start becoming acute, and why is it boiling over now?"