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: Tampa Bay Times
Jul 25, 2020
The Sons of Confederate Veterans pushes a historical narrative that "distorts the truth" said historian Adam Domby.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 25, 2020
Mr. Jakes “came to be seen as the epitome of an out-of-touch Communist Party functionary,” said professor Mary Heimann.
Source: New York Review of Books
Jul 25, 2020
by Matt Seaton
A controversy has unfolded about a stock image caption which suggests Senator Burton K. Wheeler gave a Nazi salute at a 1941 America First Rally.
Source: Ricochet
Jul 24, 2020
Wilentz argues that understanding America’s past—from the inspiring to the shameful—is vital for what he calls informed citizenship.
Source: Berkeley News
Jul 24, 2020
An interdisciplinary panel of scholars including historian Daina Ramey Berry discussed some of the limiting assumptions prevalent in economic thought and what the discipline could learn from others.
Source: New York Times
Jul 24, 2020
A paper accusing scholars of “historical malpractice” upended an academic society and stirred arguments about racism, history and the limits of debate.
Source: Amsterdam News
Jul 23, 2020
Glaude’s book reminds us that the duty to turn things around is ours. Baldwin is our guide.
Source: Labor and Working Class History Association
Jul 23, 2020
"[Farm Security Administration officials and migrant farm laborers] argued that real democracy resulted not only from migrants’ full enfranchisement but also from their daily participation as citizens (regardless of formal status) in a political and social community characterized by collective responsibility and behavior."
Source: New York Times
Jul 23, 2020
Historian Alondra Nelson praised the application of genetics to narrating the history of the slave trade, but cautioned that historians should be an integral part of any project making claims about human ancestry.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 23, 2020
Historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer notes that the current crisis has forced her to reexamine the questions she encourages her survey US history students to answer. The tension between Trump and state governors harkens back to the crisis that led to the Civil War.
Source: New York Times
Jul 23, 2020
“The idea of bringing in troops or law enforcement in its many forms to quell civilian protest is as American as apple pie — it is foundational to this nation,” said Heather Ann Thompson, a historian at the University of Michigan.
Source: Governing
Jul 23, 2020
Peniel Joseph, one of the nation’s leading civil rights scholars, has studied and written about the history of race and democracy. He has some ideas on how cities and urban areas can begin to dismantle racism.
Source: Telegraph
Jul 23, 2020
"The striking thing about 1941 is that there was no debate or controversy between the scientists and the government, there was just rapid agreement that this made sense and it wasn't costly," said Dr Jesse Olszynko-Gryn.
Source: The Times (London)
Jul 23, 2020
Historians have criticised a BBC News report on Tuesday about Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine, which killed three million people in 1943 and 1944. The report arguably blamed Churchill's racism without considering other material factors that lead to 3 million deaths.
Source: Kaiser Health News
Jul 23, 2020
If colleges move forward with in-person instruction for the coming semester, adjunct professors will likely play a greater role in teaching students in the classroom. But they often have little institutional support — in terms of health insurance or other benefits — even during this public health crisis.
Source: CNN
Jul 23, 2020
Albert Broussard is a history professor and a textbook writer for McGraw Hill. Broussard plans to capitalize the b in Black in the most recent revision of a middle and high school history textbook.
Source: CBS News
Jul 22, 2020
Columbia University history professor Stephanie McCurry joined CBSN to discuss how the history of the Confederacy was rewritten over the years to obscure its oppressive and antidemocratic reality.
Source: Barrons
Jul 22, 2020
Nearly 200 historians on Wednesday denounced what they said was the "misrepresentation of slavery and empire" in the history section of Britain's citizenship test, calling for it to be corrected.
Source: NBC5-DFW
Jul 22, 2020
"Social justice means that all human beings are given equal opportunities that are evenly distributed and certain groups are not allowed privileges denied to others," said Berry.
Source: University of South Carolina
Jul 22, 2020
No one knows exactly what Jesus looked like, and there are no known images of him from his lifetime. Art history professor Anna Smartwood House writes about the complicated history of the images of Christ and how historically they have served many purposes.
