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: Origins
October 2019
by Archana Venkatesh
The roots of nationalists’ politics in India are religious, and those roots run deep.
Source: History
09/26/2019
by Christopher Klein
The Founding Fathers passed the country’s first whistleblower protection law just seven months after signing the Declaration of Independence. The government even footed the legal bills.
Source: Vox
9/26/19
by Ian Millhiser
The Supreme Court could dismantle the constitutional right to an abortion, and all it has to do is sit on its hands.
Source: Hyperallergic
9/24/19
Almost two years after the fascist rally at Charlottesville around a mediocre statue of Robert E. Lee, the American Museum of Natural History has opened its exhibition Addressing the Statue.
Source: Reuters
9/25/19
The move by Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has caused nervousness on Wall Street - but history suggests investors need not worry.
Source: Bloomberg News
9/26/19
Featuring the insights of historian Brenda Wineapple.
Source: Washington Post
9/25/19
Trump said in a tweet Tuesday the rough transcript will prove it was “very friendly and totally appropriate call.” To students of history, though, this is more fodder for the endless comparisons between Trump and Nixon.
Source: Time
9/26/19
by Olivia B. Waxman
The episode that now has President Donald Trump staring down a House impeachment inquiry began, as many important moments in American history have, with a whistle-blower.
Source: NY Times
9/24/19
The decision follows a yearlong judicial battle between the caretaker Socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the family of Franco, who sought to block the exhumation.
Source: History Today
Accessed 9/26/19
Featuring Ali Ansari, Miranda Malins, D.H. Robinson, and Jonathan Fitzgibbons.
Source: NY Times
9/24/19
At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon, the publication of the book, “Renia’s Diary,” offers a reminder of the power of bearing witness.
9/24/19
Historians help contextualize today's announcement of an impeachment inquiry.
Source: Bloomberg News
September 20, 2019
by Andrew M Harris
The Trump administration claims sole power to regulate tailpipe standards. However, professors say most populous state has law, facts on its side.
Source: The Washington Post
9/22/2019
“It’s happening in all sorts of places,” said Adam Domby, a history professor at the College of Charleston who is writing a book about Confederate monuments. “Still, it’s clearly in many cases being used as a stopgap because the laws prohibit removing them.”
Source: TIME
September 20, 2019
by Marlen Komar
Tights Season was once revolutionary.
Source: Washington Post
9/23/19
Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.
Source: Black Perspectives
9/19/19
by Thomas A. Foster
Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses the history of the portrayal of Black bodies, and how that has manifested in 2019.
Source: The History Channel
September 17, 2019
by Sarah Pruitt
Operation Market Garden was a daring and massive offensive into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands that ultimately became a costly failure.
Source: The Washington Post
9/20/19
Chief Standing Bear is often forgotten. Now he has a statue in the Capitol.
Source: Philadelphia Tribune
9/20/19
Vital repairs are underway on the old Robert Purvis house at 16th and Mount Vernon streets, where the famous abolitionist helped thousands of people escape slavery to freedom through Philadelphia.
