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: Saturday Evening Post
Oct 26, 2020
"The question of the Anti-Masonic Party’s legacy is anything but settled among political historians. Was it all a righteous democratic force for justice or a cynical conspiracy cult?"
Source: Washington Post
Oct 26, 2020
Gettysburg's symbolic importance in the divided America of 2020 is not always rooted in the significance of the 1863 battle for the defeat of the Confederacy.
Source: Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
Oct 26, 2020
Regardless of the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court has already entered a new era. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Heather Cox Richardson for a big-picture conversation about what that means: minority rule and the court’s role, past and present, in changing visions of democracy.
Source: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Oct 26, 2020
This annual conference works to integrate both scholars and archives in Cuba to research on the Atlantic slave trade.
Source: Library Company of Philadelphia
Oct 26, 2020
Historians Jim Downs, Carol Anderson and Kevin Kruse discuss voter suppression in a virtual event hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia, Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM.
Source: CBS News
Oct 25, 2020
As the United States celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, a heated competition between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden was rife with accusations of voter fraud and suppression.
Source: Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
Oct 24, 2020
Jessie Serfilippi of the Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site examines Alexander Hamilton's relationship to slavery and challenges his image as a proto-abolitionist.
Source: Public Books
Oct 23, 2020
"The consensus intellectuals of the ’50s plucked the term from 19th-century obscurity and redefined it. It is their redefinition that is still with us today."
Source: Woodrow Wilson Center
Oct 23, 2020
Speaker Ellen DuBois will be joined by panelists Kimberly A. Hamlin and Marcia Chatelain to discuss the history of Woman Suffrage for the Washington History Seminar, hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the National History Center.
Source: George Washington University Textile Museum
Oct 23, 2020
The George Washington DC Mondays series supports discussion with local authors and historians about the DC region.
Source: NPR
Oct 22, 2020
In this episode, the process of voting; how it was originally designed, who it was intended for, moments in our country's history when we reimagined it altogether, and what we're left with today.
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 22, 2020
by Adam Serwer
Historian Lawrence Goldstone supports the argument that today's Roberts Court is continuing the jurisprudence of the post-Reconstruction era by denying the racism of restrictions on voting even as nonwhite voters are disenfranchised.
Source: Blooberg CityLab
Oct 21, 2020
Land use planners in unlikely places-the Texas suburbs--are revisiting the idea of gridded street plans as solutions for car dependence and traffic.
Source: KERA
Oct 21, 2020
“I just wish I had become infamous for a more clever tweet,” Burnett said. “I have plenty of those.”
Source: American Historical Association
Oct 21, 2020
Join an AHA sponsored webinar on the challenges facing graduate teaching assistants in remote, hybrid, and in-person classes during COVID. October 22, 2:00 PM Eastern
Source: PBS
Oct 20, 2020
Jelani Cobb investigates the Wisconsin primary election as a lens onto the ongoing struggle to protect voting rights.
Source: Democracy Now!
Oct 20, 2020
A new Frontline documentary on Wisconsin's 2020 primary election illuminates the nature of current attacks on voting rights and showcases the national nature of the ongoing battle to secure the ballot.
Source: The City
Oct 20, 2020
St. John’s University students posted adjunct professor Richard Taylor’s police complaint history after what they called a racist lesson. The school suspended him — fueling cops’ latest argument for keeping their records under wrap.
Source: American Historical Association
Oct 20, 2020
"We trust that Collin College will respect and protect Dr. Burnett’s rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution."--Jim Grossman, AHA Executive Director
Source: Merrittocracy with Keri Leigh Merritt
Oct 19, 2020
Historian Carol Anderson joins Merrittocracy host Keri Leigh Merritt to discus Trump, racism, and the state of democracy leading up to the 2020 election.
