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
March 9, 2014
Veronica Strong-Boag upset over missing blog post for Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Source: The Star Online
March 7, 2014
A leading professor calls the government's retreat from its 1993 apology "unforgivable."
Source: Tampa Bay Times
March 10, 2014
New research indicates that cohabitation does not cause divorce.
Source: The New Yorker
March 7, 2014
Sue Eakin spent her career rescuing Solomon Northup's memoir from obscurity.
Source: Associated Press
March 9, 2014
The cryptic note penned by Abraham Lincoln identifies its recipient only as "my dear Sir" and has a small section carefully clipped out.
March 10, 2014
by Victoria Torres
Handy tips for the aspiring archivist/digital preservationist. (Increasingly, they're becoming one and the same!)
Source: New York Times
March 5, 2014
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
March 4, 2014
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
March 4, 2014
The eminent historian appeared on WGBH Boston.
Source: The Daily Tar Heel
March 2, 2014
The UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper talks with the author of "Kill Anything That Moves."
Source: The Advocate
March 4, 2014
Sue Eakin was one of the most important figures in the preservation of "12 Years a Slave."
Source: Washington Post
February 28, 2014
Ayers, 61, a Civil War historian, has presided at the 4,130-student university since July 2007
Source: Associated Press
March 4, 2014
Kaplan, a longtime professor at Harvard University, was also the author of several acclaimed literary biographies.
Source: New York Times
March 4, 2014
Peniel E. Joseph on his biography of Stokely Carmichael.
Source: New York Times
March 1, 2014
Leon Wieseltier unloads on John Judis to Ron Radosh.
February 27, 2014
by Victoria Torres
Major corporations have stepped into the gap as federal and state arts and humanities budgets are slashed.
Source: The Daily Princetonian
February 25, 2014
MIT history professor Craig Steven Wilder argued that colleges were
responsible for reinforcing slavery in antebellum America.
February 25, 2015
by HNN Staff
Russianists are once again the talk of the town.
Source: Reddit
February 24, 2014
Set your calendars!
Source: New York Times
February 24, 2014
“It’s very uncommon to challenge incumbents — period. So this is truly unusual.”
