By Scott Jaschik. Hofstra University has announced that it will reject calls from some students to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from a prominent spot on campus. An online petition said that it was inappropriate to have a slave owner honored in this way. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Three historians last week issued a manifesto, saying that the discipline of history has become dominated by empiricist approaches, to the neglect of the role of theory. This approach, they argue, limits the relevance of history as a field. More...

By Scott Jaschik. When a college is named for two slave owners, one of whom was a Confederate hero, history is complicated. Can Washington and Lee keep its name and still be seen as welcoming to all. More...

What Advertising History Says About the Future of Fake News
Austan Goolsbee, New York Times, 2018/06/05

Advertising is the original fake news. And if we look at the history of advertising, it says nothing good about the future of news. More...

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
Something like this is much closer to what online learning will eventually look like than all those nice prepackaged lessons. The Historical Event Markup and Linking Project consists of a set of XML files describing historical events connected to an outpuit engine that allows these to be viewed as timelines, maps, or tables of events sorted by date or location. More...