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: The Intercept
Jun 24, 2020
UCLA history professor Robin D.G. Kelley on the current abolitionist movement and the violent history of racial capitalism.
Source: WGN9
Jun 24, 2020
To not tell the full story of slavery, is to not tell the full story of America; said professor of history Leslie Harris.
Source: KCRW
Jun 24, 2020
The local history project East of East seeks to amplify the histories of people of color in El Monte, CA.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Jun 24, 2020
Talk of “election integrity” by the Grand Old Party is inextricably intertwined with its modern history of pandering to racist elements of American life; any attempt to disentangle these stories and tell them separately is disingenuous, even if it angers partisans.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Jun 24, 2020
Los Angeles historian Gilbert Estrada's work shows how planners in the city used federal highway funding to disrupt multiracial communities and serve whites-only suburban developments, increasing segregation and inequality in the region.
Source: Vox
Jun 24, 2020
Over about half a century, police unions have become one of the most powerful lobbies in local government. Historian Will Jones is among the experts who explain how.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 23, 2020
James Baldwin reflects on the complexity of "liberty" in the context of anti-black racism.
Source: WTOP
Jun 23, 2020
“If somebody watches these programs … it might whet the appetite to do two things: one, read the book that has been talked about … and two, learn more about history and other important people and important events and maybe read other books.”
Source: Commonweal
Jun 23, 2020
A review of Heather Cox Richardson's book How the South Won the Civil War.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 23, 2020
In this interview, Lonnie Bunch discusses the purpose of the Smithsonian in 2020, the future of museums as institutions, and his own career path.
Source: AL.com
Jun 23, 2020
The Alabama Department of Archives & History said in a statement on Tuesday that it is committed to developing programs and exhibits to promote a deeper understanding of the roots and consequences of racism.
Source: Scientific American
Jun 23, 2020
Policing historian Stuart Schrader explains the military roots of many less-lethal police crowd-control weapons and the connections between military occupation and contemporary policing.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 23, 2020
In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform everywhere.
Source: NPR
Jun 23, 2020
American history professor Manisha Sinha discusses the recent push to remove statues of non-Confederate figures.
Source: Vox
Jun 22, 2020
Art historian Jody Patterson, an expert on public art in the 1930s, discusses the legacy of the New Deal's support for the arts and efforts to establish art as a public good.
Source: SFist
Jun 22, 2020
The architect of the Spanish Mission system in California has some defenders among historians, but Native American activists associate his legacy with genocide.
Source: PBS
Jun 22, 2020
Jeffrey Brown speaks to two historians, Frank Snowden of Yale University and Nancy Bristow of the University of Puget Sound, about how previous pandemics have shaped societies.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 22, 2020
Dr. Allen, a Harvard political theorist whose work has spanned the Declaration of Independence and the governmental response to Covid-19, will lead an effort to cultivate “civic strength.”
Source: Law & Liberty
Jun 22, 2020
by George H. Nash
The award-winning historian's reflections on the writing and teaching of history offer a master class in the scholar's art.
Source: Florida State University News
Jun 22, 2020
"Jim used to laugh that students would approach him to say that he’d taught their parents, to which Jim would reply, ‘and how’s your grandmother/grandfather, whom I also taught?’"
