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.
April 12, 2014
by Rosemarie Zagarri
It was easier in the old days.
April 11, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
The second full day of OAH 2014!
April 10, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
New rules hamper our ability to cover the convention.
April 10, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
What happened on the first full day of the OAH in Atlanta.
Source: KCET
April 9, 2014
Susan Schrepfer, who died on March, taught several generations of environmental historians how to see the forest and the trees.
Source: New Haven Register
April 8, 2014
Mass incarceration has become the elephant in the room of modern American history, a panel of historians said Tuesday at Yale University.
April 8, 2014
by Rick Shenkman
The annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians begins Wednesday.
Source: Daily Reveille
April 7, 2014
Why history? “All you have to do is look at the Ukraine. No one knows where or what that is.”
Source: Politico
April 7, 2014
“If I didn’t believe Abraham Lincoln could win today, I might as well give up. OK, shave the beard and get rid of the stovepipe hat. But I think he was actually sexy.”
Source: New Republic
April 7, 2014
by Sonya Michel
"This latest instance of the museum’s feckless disregard for scholarly review prompted a number of the affiliated historians to conclude that we could not, in good faith, remain on the SAC. "
Source: Harvard
April 4, 2014
Richard N. Frye, the Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Studies Emeritus, who was sometimes called “dean of the world’s Iranists,” passed away on March 27.
Source: University of Manchester
April 5, 2014
A University of Manchester academic from the School of Nursing has taken a journey back in time to help television producers recreate a 1915 field hospital for new BBC drama The Crimson Field.
Source: Daily Gazette
April 5, 2014
“I went to a re-enactment in Ballston Centre when I was a kid in 1980 and I was hooked.”
Source: ABP News
April 4, 2014
“The cherry-pickers have forced people into camps."
Source: NYT
April 6, 2014
by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis
Was Francis Scott Key really the 19th most important poet in history?
Source: Huff Post
April 1, 2014
Historians admit that the goblet's first 400 years of history are unknown.
Source: The Chronicle
April 3, 2014
American scholars of Hindu religion and culture say recent efforts in India to suppress the work of a prominent academic are having a chilling effect on their field.
Source: WRVO Public Media
April 2, 2014
"It’s been estimated by people who study the Gates website that they spent $2.3 billion to create the Common Core.”
Source: france24
April 1, 2014
Jacques Le Goff, one of the most influential medieval historians of modern times, died on Tuesday in a Paris hospital at the age of 90.
Source: NY Review of Books
March 20, 2014
by Drew Gilpin Faust
David Brion Davis, age eighty-six, has published the final volume in the trilogy he inaugurated with The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (PSWC) and continued with The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (PSAR) in 1975.
