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: AHA
4-2-14
Help defeat the Ryan Proposal today by urging your elected officials to join a bipartisan effort to support NEH.
Source: OAH
4-2-14
The American Historian will cover the broad variety of needs and interests of our members, including primary and secondary teaching, professional development, research, recent scholarship, public history, digital history, and contemporary debates about the past.
Source: The Guardian
3-31-14
No reasons were offered for this change of heart, but the Oxford University professor suggests that the family may be worried by the prospect of revelations about the poet's private life.
Source: Grateful American™ Series
4-1-14
Adam Goodheart is the author of the “New York Times” bestseller, “1861,” and the forthcoming “1865, two books that capture the stories that give us tremendous insight into the real people who fought and lived during the Civil War.
Source: AP
3-24-14
New York's highest court will consider whether to overturn convictions in the Internet impersonation case of a man who argues that mocking scholars in an academic debate about the Dead Sea Scrolls was protected by the First Amendment.
Source: BBC History Mag.
3-17-14
Chemists and engineers have always said that one person acting alone and possessing only matches and fire-lighters couldn’t have set the fire that destroyed the Plenary Chamber in just 15 minutes. They say the arsonist or arsonists had to have petrol or paraffin.
Source: BBC
3-29-14
In a new book, Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914, Adrian Gilbert reexamines the opening campaigns in France and Belgium, and, amongst other things, notes instances where British troops broke and ran from the field of battle.
Source: CHE
3-24-14
Attention on Crimea Highlights Flux in Russia Studies.
Source: heartland.org
3-26-14
By providing a detailed course of study that defines, discusses, and interprets “the required knowledge of each period,” the College Board has in effect supplanted local and state curriculum by unilaterally assuming the authority to prioritize historic topics.
Source: The Times of Israel
3-29-14
“I believe that the occupation must end. And if it doesn’t, it will end Israel. I’m not in favor of settlements."
Source: The Daily Princetonian
3-27-14
“There are different ways to learn about history; you could learn about it through textbooks, you could learn about it through lectures, you could learn about it through a senior thesis, but another way to learn about history is through popular culture.”
Source: Afro
3-27-14
Shapiro said while it is generally accepted—though unproven—that U.S. spy agencies supported the apartheid regime in Africa and, specifically, were involved in the freedom fighter’s arrest, much of that remained unreported by the press, even in the torrent of coverage following Mandela’s death in December.
Source: AP
3-30-14
Zubov’s offense was writing an op-ed for the nation’s No. 1 daily newspaper, comparing the actions of Russia’s leader President Vladimir Putin, who bloodlessly annexed Ukraine’s largely Russophone Crimea, with Adolph Hitler, who bloodlessly annexed Germanophone Sudetenland.
Source: Bloomberg
3-30-14
“A Leap of Faith” is the third segment in the Jewish historian’s “The Story of the Jews,” a co-production with the BBC, which started last week on PBS.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
3-30-14
by Daniel Pipes
Nothing human is fixed; even a scripture believed to be written by God must be interpreted. Islam exists in history and changes over time.
Source: Daiji World
3-27-14
Harvard University history professor Sugata Bose, grandnephew of Indian
revolutionary Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, envisions a globally competent
India.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
3-24-14
by Daniel Pipes
What began as convenience and formality has in a small way shifted my sense of identity.
Source: beinkandescent.com
3-26-14
by David Bruce Smith
The Grateful American™ Series Heads to Mount Vernon to Interview Executive Director Doug Bradburn.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3-26-14
Ivor Bell, now 77, was charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 who was abducted and killed in 1972.
Source: The Guardian
3-22-14
Professor says 'institutional racism' is behind a failure to recruit ethnic minority trainees.
