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: Washington Times
September 10, 2014
by Daniel Pipes
"I can account for these errors: In 1991, no one knew that autonomous Kurdish rule in Iraq would flourish as it has."
Source: The Nation
September 15, 2014
by Stephen Cohen
"I have been repeatedly assailed—even in purportedly liberal publications—as Putin’s No. 1 American 'apologist.' "
Source: Politico
September 7, 2014
by Edward Baptist
The Economist's book review stated that slaves were treated well by their owners.
Source: The Washington Post
September 9, 2014
by Harold Pollack
An interview with Rick Perlstein: Reagan’s improbable success, The OPEC oil embargo, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, whether President Obama underestimated the implacability of his political opponents and what Perlstein himself has learned from critical essays written about his book.
Source: RRCHNM at George Mason University
August 28, 2014
This freely available website explores child custody in Virginia and nationally within a broad historical and legal context with the goal of providing an impartial, interdisciplinary resource grounded in humanities scholarship.
Source: Niall Ferguson's Twitter Account
September 8, 2014
They're known for a bruising battle, but on Scotland they agree.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 8, 2014
The center’s scholars strive to capture the voices of historical actors not traditionally represented in archives, like slaves and American Indians, through projects that map the past and involve the public in analyzing historical data.
Source: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
September 10, 2014 (accessed)
Fewer students are majoring in history, but the number of history departments has barely budged.
Source: AARP
September 9, 2014 (accessed)
The filmmaker, whose latest documentary, ‘The Roosevelts,’ premieres Sept. 14 on PBS, talks about their fears, personal struggles and sense of duty.
Source: NYT
September 7, 2014
Ms. Niven’s groundbreaking books helped revive public interest in Carl Sandburg, Edward Steichen and Thornton Wilder.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
September 8, 2014 (accessed)
by Daniel Pipes
"Without Turkish support, ISIS would not be where it is."
Source: The New Republic
September 6, 2014
by Sean Wilentz
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
September 8, 2014
by HNN Staff
"Sometime after I decided to go to UVA, I briefly took a job with PoliticsNJ.com, run by an anonymous editor who went by the name of a long-deceased governor of New Jersey named Walter "Wally" Edge. Wally, I learned years later, was David Wildstein."
Source: Xenia Gazette
September 6, 2014
When J. Murray Murdoch first began teaching at Cedarville University, Lyndon B. Johnson was president, gas was about $.30 a gallon and “The Sound of Music” made its premier.
Source: Los Angeles Times
September 5, 2014
Williams taught anthropology, gender studies and history at USC for about two decades until he quit in 2011.
Source: NYT
September 5, 2014
If all goes well, the Big History Project will be introduced in hundreds of more classrooms by next year and hundreds, if not thousands, more the year after that.
Source: Sandbox (blog)
September 4, 2014
by Martin Kramer
No university has more senior faculty boycotters signed on this letter than Columbia.
Source: NYT
September 4, 2014
Professor Katz wrote more than a dozen books chronicling public welfare policies in the United States from the start of the republic through the 20th century.
Source: AHA
September 4, 2014 (accessed)
This decline is especially disconcerting when we consider that the overall economy has been improving and the US jobless rate declining.
Source: AHA
August 31, 2014
Letter of Concern to University of Illinois Chancellor Regarding Salaita Case (2014)
