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: The New Yorker
Sep 21, 2020
Adam Gopnik considers new books about Lincoln by David S. Reynolds and Sidney Blumenthal that address the personality and governing of the 16th president.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 21, 2020
Kevin M. Levin, Lalane Schmidt, Kevin Gover and George Derek Musgrove are among the scholars offering perspective on how local community deliberations about problematic memorials should proceed.
Source: CNN
Sep 20, 2020
Historian Larry Glickman suggests that the pandemic has opened up discussion of a broader role for government in meeting people's needs during a crisis.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 20, 2020
While the HBO series directed national attention to the Tulsa massacre, some Black descendants of the residents of the Greenwood district targeted by mob violence and arson were uncomfortable with their families' tragedy being mined for dramatic purposes.
Source: Reuters
Sep 19, 2020
Russian professor Valery Solovei was arrested by Russian police at a march in Moscow to protest the arrest of a Russian mayor on murder charges that dissidents believe are politically motivated.
Source: Texarkana Gazette
Sep 19, 2020
A local professor specializing in medieval history likely never thought he'd experience unprecedented times that somehow resemble living through a plague.
Source: New York Times
Sep 18, 2020
Stephen Cohen did not shy from controversy, either in his scholarly claims (made at the height of the Cold War) that the Bolshevik revolution contained true democratic potential before being corrupted, or in his criticisms of American efforts to influence post-Soviet Russia.
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
Sep 17, 2020
The Brennan Center for Justice, the NYU Brademas Center, and NYU Votes sponsor an online discussion of voting rights featuring Emory University Professor Carol Anderson and Brennan Center Senior Fellow Theodore R. Johnson.
Source: New York Times
Sep 16, 2020
by Theodore R. Johnson
Despite the political diversity within Black America, the political system's accommodation of bigotry and the political utility of appeals to white identity have pushed the overwhelming majority of Black voters to cast ballots for the same party.
Source: Muckrock
Sep 16, 2020
Muckrock invites interested historians and history enthusiasts to participate in a project to make declassified Presidential intelligence briefings more widely accessible.
Source: New York Times
Sep 16, 2020
Digitally restored and widely available for the first time on Friday, “Palo Alto” captures a band hitting a high note, even as Monk battled personal and professional turmoil. Historian and Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley puts the gig in context.
Source: Hyperallergic
Sep 16, 2020
The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.
Source: Untapped New York
Sep 16, 2020
Though authorities blamed Italian anarchists and other radical sympathizers for the destructive bombing, the case was never solved.
Source: National Parks Traveler
Sep 16, 2020
Ed Bearss was one of the most important figures in the preservation of Civil War battlefields as sites for the American public to learn about history.
Source: CNN
Sep 16, 2020
Historians and ethnic studies and legal scholars Natalia Molina, Alexandra Minna Stern, Alan Kraut and Maybell Romero comment on recent whistleblower allegations that ICE detention facilities forced migrant women to have hysterectomies. American racism has long showed itself around questions of who gets to control their own bodies.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 16, 2020
Historians Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta and Federico Finchelstein offer insight into how the political right has used rumors of communist plots to maintain power in Brazil, and why the country's political culture today is vulnerable to fake news and conspiracy theories.
Source: New York Times
Sep 16, 2020
A new book uses the life story of ASPCA founder Henry Bergh to illustrate the interdependence of humans and non-human animals in urban society.
Source: Public Books
Sep 16, 2020
Georgetown University Historian Marcia Chatelain talks research, publishing, podcasting, and connecting with first-generation college students in a wide-ranging interview.
Source: Catholic University of America
Sep 16, 2020
Historian Patrick Scallen offers a virtual lecture on the transnational history of the Salvadoran community in greater Washington, D.C., presented by the history department of the Catholic University of America.
Source: Harvard Kennedy School
Sep 15, 2020
Harvard professor Alex Keyssar's book examines the persistence of the electoral college against rising calls for its abolition, and the influence of racism on the institution.
