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: New York Times
Aug 19, 2020
A contemporary artist is recreating the final campaign of suffrage activist Inez Milholland through historical ephemera, primary documents, and photographic reenactments.
Source: The New York Times
Aug 19, 2020
In 1973, the House Armed Services Committe, led by a segregationist, believed that "reforms were the problem" in the wake of racial strife, notes Navy historian John Sherwood.
Source: Black Perspectives
Aug 19, 2020
Mike Jirik reviews historian Kellie Carter Jackson’s new book, "Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence."
Source: The New York Times
Aug 18, 2020
'Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980' is available now.
Source: CNN
Aug 18, 2020
Susan B. Anthony was found guilty for voting in 1872. According to historians Deborah Hughes and Ann Gordon, Anthony "absolutely" did not want to be pardonned.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 18, 2020
Historian Ann Gordon, who has edited the papers of Susan B. Anthony, says that Trump's pardon is an especially misguided example of today's politicians trying to use Anthony's legacy for their own purposes.
Source: WAMU
Aug 18, 2020
Historians Adele Logan Alexander and Lisa Tetrault discuss the complicated history of women's suffrage including racial divisions in the movement.
Source: Roanoke (VA) Times
Aug 18, 2020
Christine Henry, an assistant professor of historic preservation at UMW, will contribute to this project with her fall semester upper level seminar “Diversity in Historic Preservation.”
Source: Yale News
Aug 18, 2020
Trachtenberg is best known as one of the most distinguished and authoritative interpreters of what photographers have shown about history through the camera lens.
Source: The New York Times
Aug 18, 2020
Ph.D. candidate in history Jemar Tisby reviews "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity."
Source: JSTOR Daily
Aug 18, 2020
The effort to secure and refine aluminum ore for war materiel was environmentally damaging and previews the globalized impact of commodity supply chains.
Source: Black Perspectives
Aug 18, 2020
A review of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s new book "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow."
Source: Boston Review
Aug 18, 2020
In his new book, Samuel Zipp Zipp explores the resonance of Willkie’s international ideas through the story of his most quixotic venture.
Source: WESA
Aug 17, 2020
Postal historian Richard John says that the USPS is not a business and should be treated as a public resource.
Source: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Aug 17, 2020
“You’re robbing an entire nation of people of their history by pretending Croatoan is a mystery on a tree,” said Scott Dawson.
Source: Greenville (SC) Post and Courier
Aug 17, 2020
“My research shows that Black lives hardly mattered at all at Clemson until after desegregation, and the discovery we made in this burial ground tells me that Black deaths mattered even less,” Dr. Rhondda Thomas said Monday. “The thing that I found was that Black labor mattered the most on this land where Clemson was built.”
Source: The New York Times
Aug 17, 2020
A report from the Transition Integrity Project predicts that, come November, Trump “is likely to contest the result by both legal and extralegal means.”
Source: Spectrum News
Aug 17, 2020
"It shouldn't have taken so many infections," said UNC-CH history professor Jay Smith.
Source: CNN
Aug 17, 2020
"Just because we are in England … that's not an excuse to be able to commemorate individuals who were involved in keeping other people in chains," said historian Laurence Westgaph.
Source: The New Yorker
Aug 17, 2020
After its emergence in the 1990s, the Michigan militia movement was dormant until the Obama years. The state's COVID lockdowns have brought a mix of libertarians, racists and anti-government radicals into a prominent public role again.
