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: CBC
3-9-14
Veronica Strong-Boag upset over missing blog post for Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Source: The Star Online
3-7-14
A leading professor calls the government's retreat from its 1993 apology "unforgivable."
Source: Tampa Bay Times
3-10-14
New research indicates that cohabitation does not cause divorce.
Source: The New Yorker
3-7-14
Sue Eakin spent her career rescuing Solomon Northup's memoir from obscurity.
Source: Associated Press
3-9-14
The cryptic note penned by Abraham Lincoln identifies its recipient only as "my dear Sir" and has a small section carefully clipped out.
3-10-14
by Victoria Torres
Handy tips for the aspiring archivist/digital preservationist. (Increasingly, they're becoming one and the same!)
Source: New York Times
3-5-14
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy will be feted at a black-tie gala in April for his book "The Men Who Lost America."
Source: Stanford News
3-4-14
Economic historian Gavin Wright's latest research illustrates how the
civil rights revolution of the 1960s achieved something rarely seen in
social revolutions: economic improvements that stimulated growth for an
entire region.
Source: WGBH
3-4-14
The eminent historian appeared on WGBH Boston.
Source: The Daily Tar Heel
3-2-14
The UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper talks with the author of "Kill Anything That Moves."
Source: The Advocate
3-4-14
Sue Eakin was one of the most important figures in the preservation of "12 Years a Slave."
Source: Washington Post
2-28-14
Ayers, 61, a Civil War historian, has presided at the 4,130-student university since July 2007
Source: Associated Press
3-4-14
Kaplan, a longtime professor at Harvard University, was also the author of several acclaimed literary biographies.
Source: New York Times
3-4-14
Peniel E. Joseph on his biography of Stokely Carmichael.
Source: New York Times
3-1-14
Leon Wieseltier unloads on John Judis to Ron Radosh.
2-27-14
by Victoria Torres
Major corporations have stepped into the gap as federal and state arts and humanities budgets are slashed.
Source: The Daily Princetonian
2-25-14
MIT history professor Craig Steven Wilder argued that colleges were
responsible for reinforcing slavery in antebellum America.
2-25-15
by HNN Staff
Russianists are once again the talk of the town.
Source: Reddit
2-24-14
Set your calendars!
Source: New York Times
2-24-14
“It’s very uncommon to challenge incumbents — period. So this is truly unusual.”
