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: Washington Post
Sep 24, 2020
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Media Studies scholar Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.
Source: The Onion
Sep 24, 2020
"Members of President Donald Trump’s new patriotic 1776 Commission struggled Wednesday to find ways to improve upon the education system’s existing propaganda."
Source: Washington Post
Sep 24, 2020
Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to expand the Supreme Court to overcome conservative hostility to the New Deal didn't go well for him, though patience paid off as his judicial antagonists retired or died during his presidency.
Source: American Historical Association
Sep 24, 2020
The AHA only reluctantly gives air to such distraction; we are not interested in inflating a brouhaha that is a mere sideshow to the many perils facing our nation at this moment.
Source: The Hill
Sep 23, 2020
Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and Jacobin contributor Matt Karp said on Hill TV’s “Rising” Wednesday that Democrats should learn from former President Abraham Lincoln to work around a conservative-majority Supreme Court.
Source: her
Sep 23, 2020
Documentarian Ciara Hyland draws on historical research to examine the suppressed stories of sexual violence against women that pervaded all sides of the Irish war for independence.
Source: New York Times
Sep 23, 2020
Historian Julian Zelizer says Trump has recently spoken aloud what many fear he has been thinking: he may refuse to hand over power willingly.
Source: BBC
Sep 23, 2020
Journalist Richard Fisher examines the argument that the present--this moment--is the most important juncture in human history because human capacity to affect the planet outstrips human wisdom to direct that capacity.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 23, 2020
Historian Carol Anderson identifies Trump's ruling vision with the post-Civil War reaction led by Andrew Johnson, who was "really the president of a few people, not the American people." Interviews with some of Trump's close aides affirm that assessment, and even Trump's West Wing supporters concede that he is widely perceived as racist.
Source: Vanity Fair
Sep 23, 2020
As Trump’s fearmongering, demonization, and threats of violence have invited comparisons to Hitler’s rise, historian Peter Fritzsche separates fact from exaggeration on "The Hive" podcast.
Source: New York Times
Sep 22, 2020
A new book addresses the glaring oversight of sexual assault and abuse of women as an aspect of war and conflict.
Source: San Antonio Express-News
Sep 22, 2020
Alonso Perales may be one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the 20th century who’s still relatively unknown; historian Cynthia Orozco hopes to correct that.
Source: Boston Globe
Sep 22, 2020
Columnist Renée Graham cites Ruth Ben-Ghiat's history of Italian fascism as a warning about authoritarianism's growth.
Source: Public Books
Sep 22, 2020
by Pablo Pryluka
Although the Tennessee Valley Authority was a pioneering public works project, its alumni worked in Latin America to advance redevelopment projects that elevated the authority of big business, a model now associated with the neoliberal turn in the developed world.
Source: TIME
Sep 22, 2020
The Rev. Al Sharpton honors Prof. Ibram X. Kendi as a scholar engaged with antiracist activism and an intellectual guide for this year's protest movements.
Source: Black Perspectives
Sep 21, 2020
by Katie Donington
Debates over Eric Williams’s work have ebbed and flowed ever since he first published Capitalism and Slavery in 1944. His book inspired a body of historiography to which many historians of slavery and abolition have added their voices over the decades.
Source: The New Republic
Sep 21, 2020
by Bruce Bartlett
Friedman’s ardent libertarian faith was central to his monetarist thinking; like all libertarians, he was always extremely wary of anything that would cause the size of government to grow.
Source: Bloomberg
Sep 21, 2020
It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Sep 21, 2020
Harvard scholars including legal historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin describe the contributions the late Justice Ginsburg made to gender equality under law and to the legal profession.
Source: National History Center
Sep 21, 2020
The National History Center's Washington History Seminar features Eric Weitz's "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States." Monday, September 21 at 4:30 Eastern.
