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: WTOP
Jul 7, 2020
Over 200 teachers in the DC area are learning about White House history this week, through a five-day online program presented by the White House Historical Association.
Source: New York Times
Jul 7, 2020
Julian Zelizer argues that Newt Gingrich made the media unwitting accomplices to his partisan crusade.
Jul 7, 2020
A new study finds that unions don't just increase wages and benefits for workers on the job — union membership is also linked to diminished racist attitudes among white workers. If we want to defeat racism, building strong, democratic unions is essential.
Source: Vox
Jul 6, 2020
How does Black Lives Matter connect to previous civil rights efforts? What makes it unique? In this interview, historian Keisha N. Blain answers that and more.
Source: Bangor Daily News
Jul 6, 2020
Ralph Owen Brewster’s silence on the Klan spoke volumes.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 6, 2020
The Disney+ filmed version has fans wondering what’s accurate. Historians are fans, too, and they have answers, along with caveats.
Source: The New Yorker
Jul 6, 2020
by Isaac Chotiner
"But we have to acknowledge that we’re not upholding history, we’re upholding values, and those are not the values that we want in the twenty-first century."
Source: Boston Globe
Jul 5, 2020
“He was great public servant," said former Governor Michael S. Dukakis.
Source: NBC News
Jul 5, 2020
Activist and associate history professor Yolanda Leyva breaks down the complex legacy of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 5, 2020
Historian Micki McElya is among the many who believe the monument should be removed.
Source: Boston Globe
Jul 5, 2020
An architecture professor who taught at MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong is remembered as a historian of Chinese American community and an advocate for including the public in the process of planning.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 5, 2020
The story of how the Republican Party, once the party of Abraham Lincoln, became almost entirely dependent on white voters, and how the Democratic Party, once the party of Southern segregationists, became the political home to black Americans and other minorities has been years in the making.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jul 4, 2020
Just like that, a document apparently unknown to Douglass’s biographers and not found in the orator’s papers at the Library of Congress had landed squarely in the middle of the debate that has swept the nation and the neighborhood around Lincoln Park where the statue stands.
Source: Al Jazeera
Jul 4, 2020
The British historian caused outrage by saying 'slavery was not genocide' in a recent interview.
Source: NY Daily News
Jul 4, 2020
“One day it feels like 1861, the next 1918, then suddenly 1970,” said professor Ted Widmer.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 4, 2020
“It’s like they threw a bunch of stuff on the wall and just went with whatever stuck,” says history professor Karen Cox.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 4, 2020
Historians Kevin K. Gaines and Julian E. Zelizer discuss the president's power to shape historical narratives.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 4, 2020
“You cannot sit around now in this post-George Floyd period we’re in and say, ‘We’re going to continue to take this safe position,’” says historian Charles Ross.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 4, 2020
Leah Wright Rigeur of the Harvard Kennedy School argues that Trump keeps making appeals to white racism because it's central to his political identity.
Source: The New Yorker
Jul 3, 2020
The United States, long the bedrock of the Western alliance, is less inspirational today—and perhaps will be even less so tomorrow.
