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
Jul 30, 2020
Historians and scholars including Ira Katznelson, Jeffrey Sammons, Edward Humes, Richard Rothstein, David H. Onkst, and Charissa Threat describe the difficulties faced by Black veterans of World War II returning to a racist society.
Source: New York Times
Jul 30, 2020
“[Nixon's campaigns] understood something about race that Trump doesn’t understand,” [Matthew] Lassiter said. “Voters don’t want racial privilege challenged, but they don’t want to be explicitly reminded that racism is underneath their position.”
Source: New York Magazine
Jul 30, 2020
A panel of experts including historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Max Felker-Kantor, Carl Suddler, Stuart Schrader and Melanie Newport assemble a reading list for understanding policing and its relationship to racism and social class in the US.
Source: History.com
Jul 29, 2020
Historian Elizabeth Varon rates Andrew Johnson's selection as Vice President disastrous because of his ascenscion to the presidency.
Source: LitHub
Jul 29, 2020
In Jason Boog’s new book, "The Deep End," he offers colorful and often grim profiles of nine Depression-era writers and connects their stories to the struggles that writers face today. Even before our current economic crisis, it was a depressingly apt comparison.
Source: Newsweek
Jul 29, 2020
"This is my home. I was protesting peacefully. So why did federal troops shoot me in the head?" said professor Maureen Healy.
Source: The Marshall Project
Jul 29, 2020
Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era.
Source: Foreign Policy
Jul 28, 2020
Museums now face a moral reckoning over artifacts stolen by people who took colonial violence and racial superiority as a given. It is time to start having honest conversations about righting those wrongs.
Source: History.com
Jul 28, 2020
Scholars including Jeanne Theoharis and Will Guzmán describe the roots and impact of the 1960 Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Source: Minnesota Public Radio
Jul 28, 2020
Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez argues in "Jesus and John Wayne" that contemporary Evangelical political views are a product of the group's embrace of patriarchal authority and power, a situation that will not end when Trump leaves office.
Source: MassLive
Jul 28, 2020
The current seal depicts a Native man standing beneath a disembodied arm and sword, implying violent subjugation of the Indigenous people.
Source: Library of America
Jul 28, 2020
Join Yale historian Joanne Freeman for a discussion of the historical accuracy and significance of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "Hamilton."
Source: Daily Beast
Jul 27, 2020
“The Birth of a Nation” was based on a Kappa Alpha member’s book. The frat—which still hails Robert E. Lee as its “spiritual founder”—praised the film for showing its Klan ties.
Source: The Nation
Jul 27, 2020
For Khalidi, the British mandate established two parallel realities in Palestine: an embryonic nation-building project for the Jewish minority and the continuation of colonial policy for the Arab majority, whose question of self-determination was left unaddressed.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Jul 27, 2020
“When they were protesting in 1963, it was a desegregation protest but the things that people were chanting were like, ‘What do we want? Books! When do we want them? Now!’” said historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland.
Source: WBUR
Jul 27, 2020
If Kiara Vigil wanted to learn more about her family's past and their tribes' roles in United States history, she understood she'd have to seek it out herself.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 27, 2020
Senator Cotton's comments ignited a war of words on social media Sunday; historians including John Kaminski and Joshua D. Rothman weigh in.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 27, 2020
Although the one-generation link between Dan Smith and his formerly enslaved father is remarkable, historian Hilary Green reminds readers that the time passed since Emancipation is still relatively short.
Source: The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA)
Jul 26, 2020
Dickinson College's House Divided Project researched the complex role of the school in slavery. The result? A dormitory and a gateway to the campus will be renamed to acknowledge prominent African-Americans in the college's history.
Source: CNN
Jul 26, 2020
The "Portlandia" image -- of 1990s slackers driven by liberal ingenuity -- isn't entirely true to the city's history, says former professor Randy Blazak.
