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: Southern Illinoisan
Jun 6, 2020
Historian James W. Loewen's research on 'sundown towns' underscores the significance of the protests in these communities.
Source: Bill Moyers
Jun 5, 2020
“All this open talk by Trump of dominance is pretty undisguised fascism," said Bernard Weisberger, a historian who lived through the rises of Hitler and Mussolini.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 5, 2020
Historians Michael Beschloss, David Garrow, H.W. Brands, Max J. Skidmore and David Greenberg argue that LBJ is in fact second to Lincoln in this regard.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 5, 2020
In their new book, Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch provide a remarkable and often riveting account of an alleged plot to kill Lincoln in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration in Washington in February 1861.
Source: WAMU
Jun 5, 2020
In a very prescient interview from 2006, Foner argues that the failed promises of Reconstruction reverberate today.
Source: History.com
Jun 5, 2020
Scholars Nikki Jones, Michael Flamm, and Dominic Capeci describe what exactly unfolded during these riots, what motivated them, and what they represented.
Source: CityLab
Jun 5, 2020
There’s a dissonance, locals say, between Minneapolis' progressive rhetoric and the reality of how people of different races experience completely different cities. Read how history professor William D. Green and others have experienced these divides, and how they propose to bridge them.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 5, 2020
Senior manager emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture John W. Franklin discusses the horrifying history of slavery in D.C.
Source: CNN
Jun 4, 2020
Historians David K. Johnston and Kassia St. Clair comment on the social and technological changes that helped make the color a secret, then open, political symbol.
Source: Society of Civil War Historians
Jun 4, 2020
Thomas J. Brown's book on the memorialization of the Civil War and American attitudes toward militarization has been honored with the Thomas Watson Brown Book Award.
Source: CityLab
Jun 3, 2020
Demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in the Twin Cities occupied a major artery that tore apart a thriving African-American neighborhood.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 3, 2020
With people around the globe sheltering at home amid the pandemic, the Arolsen Archives asked for help indexing them. Thousands joined the effort.
Source: NPR
Jun 3, 2020
Policing scholar Alex Vitale discusses the increased centrality of policing to urban life and how to reverse that trend.
Source: The Intercept
Jun 3, 2020
Historians Keisha Blain and Stuart Schrader discuss the history of black rebellion against police violence and the militarization of domestic policing.
Source: KPFA
Jun 2, 2020
Hear from historian Rick Perlstein on the history of Nixon's Law and Order Campaign.
Source: TIME
Jun 2, 2020
Historian Elizabeth Hinton's research suggests that this platform truly took hold under the Johnson administration.
Source: New York Times
Jun 2, 2020
by Emily Badger
In a reflection of how American cities have changed since the 1960s, demonstrations have included many wealthy areas. Historians and scholars including Thomas Sugrue, Alison Isenberg and Lester Spence comment on this change.
Source: Vox
Jun 2, 2020
The Pulitzer Prize winning historian and President of the Urban History Association: "If there’s nothing else I’d love for your readership to think of, it’s this: If you have 75+ cities burning, what does it say that from the leadership at every level, the only response has been more police?"
Source: Washington Post
Jun 2, 2020
Historian Mark Bray explains that Antifa activists continue a historical lineage of directly opposing racists and fascists because they suspect that the authorities are sympathetic to far-right groups.
Source: Columbia News
Jun 1, 2020
A new oral history project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, will be both a historical record of the coronavirus pandemic and a learning tool for how the city can handle future crises.
