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 15, 2020
“Americans like to portray that they worked hard and would have starved had they not gardened,” said Allan M. Winkler, a distinguished professor emeritus of history at Miami University of Ohio. “Victory gardens were a symbol of abundance and doing it yourself, but that was more symbolism than reality.”
Source: Public Seminar
Jul 15, 2020
The Past Present podcast discusses the recent restrictions on student visas.
Source: The Intercept
Jul 15, 2020
Historian and Robeson biographer Gerald Horne discusses the singer and activist's legacy and politics.
Source: New York Times
Jul 15, 2020
“They took some effort” to protect the public, Science Historian Alex Wellerstein said. “Would we consider it adequate today? No, not at all. It’s not considered adequate to set off a nuclear bomb, not tell anyone about it and set up a pregnant scientist in a motel with a Geiger counter to monitor radiation.”
Source: TIME
Jul 14, 2020
As teachers face a new sense of urgency when it comes to teaching topics related to current events, the Philadelphia-based NCC hopes to arm middle- and high-school teachers with the knowledge needed to ground their discussions in a deeper understanding of the history of topics ranging from slavery and Reconstruction to federalism and women’s suffrage.
Source: TIME
Jul 14, 2020
Adrienne Keene — a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and faculty member at Brown University’s American Studies and Ethnic Studies department, who is also the author of the Native Appropriations blog and a co-host of the All My Relations podcast — spoke to TIME about the history of Native American mascots and imagery.
Source: History.com
Jul 14, 2020
Historian Eric S. Yellin discusses the impact of Wilson's decision to impose segregation on federal employment, a major blow to black aspirations.
Source: Marketplace
Jul 14, 2020
Professor Tanisha Ford discusses the ways that the clothing choices of civil rights activists in the past and today reflect change and continuity in protest movements.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 14, 2020
Museums are working overtime to collect artifacts and ephemera from the pandemic and the racial justice movement — and they need your help.
Source: Slate
Jul 13, 2020
Historian Robert Muchembled’s new history is full of disgusting, delicious details about early modern France.
Source: WBUR
Jul 13, 2020
Read an excerpt from historian Rutger Bregman's "Human Kind: A Hopeful History" before his interview on NPR's "On Point" on July 13th.
Source: Arkansas Democrat & Gazette
Jul 12, 2020
Arkansas historians Kenneth Barnes and Carl H. Moneyhon discuss the political influence of Confederate sympathizers and white supremacy over the content of history books in the state.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Jul 12, 2020
Historians Yve Chavez, Philip Ethington and William Deverell comment on the conflicted legacy of the historic mission structure.
Source: CBS News
Jul 12, 2020
As debate over the takedown of Confederate monuments continues, historian Julian Hayter examines why and when the statues went up in the first place.
Source: Vox
Jul 12, 2020
Religious historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez explains why Trump wasn’t a trade-off for American evangelicals.
Source: New Yorker
Jul 11, 2020
A charge of rape north of Atlanta in 1912 led not only to a lynching but to a violent and total purge of African Americans from Forsyth County that lasted generations. Patrick Phillips's Blood at the Root examines the purge and its legacy.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jul 11, 2020
‘Monuments do a very poor job in talking about history,’ says history professor Hillary Green.
Source: 303 Magazine
Jul 9, 2020
Miller's upcoming book "Black Smoke" is set to be released in Spring 2021.
Source: Market Watch
Jul 8, 2020
Non-academic historians step in to preserve stories that would otherwise be lost.
Source: Yale News
Jul 8, 2020
“He was a true friend, a generous colleague, and an internationally recognized scholar who thought and wrote with passion and verve."
