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: San Francisco State University
Jun 22, 2020
The historian and author of “The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History” answers questions about the past, present and future of LGBT pride parades.
Source: American Constitution Center
Jun 22, 2020
TODAY join a Zoom webinar featuring Joanne Freemand and Edward Ayers on Congressional responses to crisis.
Source: USA Today
Jun 21, 2020
The biographer and intellectual historian was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in 2007 for William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism.
Source: France 24
Jun 21, 2020
Hebrew University president Asher Cohen hailed Sternhell, a professor emeritus there who was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for political science in 2008, as "among the most important researchers" to emerge from the institution.
Source: New York Times
Jun 21, 2020
Her writing paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history.
Source: Champaign (IL) News-Gazette
Jun 21, 2020
University of Illinois professor Peter Fritzche has written a recent book on the first 100 days of the Third Reich which considers the balance of Hitler's influence and prevailing currents of antisemitism and authoritarianism in the German public.
Source: NBC News
Jun 21, 2020
Geoff Ward, Cameron McWhirter and Saje Mathieu examine the parallels between the notorious "Red Summer" of 1919 and the present.
Source: CNN
Jun 21, 2020
Douglas Brinkley comments on Trump's political strategy on CNN.
Source: Daily Beast
Jun 20, 2020
According to historian Sarah Bond, the practice goes all the way back to the ancient world.
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen
Jun 19, 2020
A project from historian Colin Gordon and his research team accounts racially-restrictive deed covenants and subdivision restrictions in Johnson County, Iowa.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Jun 19, 2020
These protests reflect the demographic shifts and diversification of U.S. suburbs and exurbs in recent decades, a challenge to the stereotype of a monochromatic suburbia.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Jun 19, 2020
Legal scholar and historian Annette Gordon-Reed puts the push to remove Confederate statues in context.
Source: ProPublica
Jun 19, 2020
Schools often teach the Civil War in terms of “free states” and “slave states.” Illinois complicates those definitions. We spoke with a historian and high school teacher about slavery’s legacy in Illinois.
Source: Public Books
Jun 19, 2020
by Jeff Sparrow
As Australia considers government support to artistic workers inspired by the US New Deal, important differences in context should be observed.
Source: Frank Interviews
Jun 18, 2020
"I've been very fortunate in choosing the right topic."
Source: Slate
Jun 17, 2020
He wore a suit, went on talk shows, and tried to mimic the push for black civil rights.
Source: Levine Museum of the New South
Jun 17, 2020
Karen L. Cox and Adam Domby join the Museum of the New South to discuss Confederate memorials.
Source: The Guardian
Jun 16, 2020
According to New York University historian Timothy Naftali, Trump's mimicry of Nixon's '68 campaign is "based upon a fundamental misreading of history."
Source: PolitiFact
Jun 16, 2020
We wondered why the bases have these names in the first place, so we checked with eight military historians.
Source: History Extra (BBC)
Jun 16, 2020
In this podcast, Kevin Gaines speaks with History Extra on the history of the civil rights movement, racial tensions in America, and the history behind the police violence of recent weeks.
