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: Washington Post
May 24, 2020
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust offers her insight on mourning and redemption.
Source: The Hill
May 24, 2020
Historian Julian Zelizer predicts Trump will continue to play to his base as the campaign heats up; the risk is that he'll fail to connect beyond that base.
Source: The Atlantic
May 23, 2020
Historian Lisa Jacobson explains that the "Wine Mom" meme is rooted in gender and middle class norms regulating women's obligations to their children (and women's desire for freedom from them).
Source: TIME
May 22, 2020
by Olivia B. Waxman
The role of African Americans in creating a day of tribute to the Union Army has been obscured by pro-Confederate narratives of national reconcilation after the overthrow of Reconstruction.
Source: Catholic Sun
May 22, 2020
"I’ve never personally encountered a situation in which 11 volumes of material, published over two decades, are suddenly countermanded by a single document, found after a few days’ research," says Jan Zaryn.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
May 22, 2020
Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home.
Source: Moscow Times
May 22, 2020
U.K. calls for early release after court rejects lawyers’ argument Dmitriyev is at risk of the coronavirus in Karelian detention center.
Source: TIME
May 22, 2020
"What I’m trying to do in this book is to turn this narrative around, to show that actually, over thousands of years, people have actually evolved to be friendly," says Bregman.
Source: New York Times
May 22, 2020
Recent books highlight the vast gap between perceptions and reality in warfare and foreground the gap between people who call for war and who fight it.
Source: Wall Street Journal
May 22, 2020
In reviewing Robert Dallek's recent book, Robert Merry argues that the writer short-changes the agency of voters and the significance of the basic political and economic conditions in determining who wins a presidential election.
May 21, 2020
Kenneth Pomeranz's work on global economic history has been recognized for driving new understanding of the history of global exchange and sparked global collaboration among historians.
Source: London Review of Books
May 21, 2020
by Eric Foner
Eric Foner argues that reasons both strategic and idealistic informed the establishment of the Electoral College, and recent books support the case for its abolition.
Source: KJZZ
May 20, 2020
Historian Peter Mancall tells interviews that applying lessons from past public health emergencies has been impeded by the imperative to exploit the labor of vulnerable workers for profit.
Source: School Library Journal
May 20, 2020
School Library Journal recommends history and civics podcasts for kids.
Source: JSTOR Daily
May 20, 2020
Historians Erk Loomis and Michael Goldfield are among an interdisciplinary group of scholars describing the process by which the New Deal transformed American society.
Source: CNN
May 20, 2020
Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates weighs in on Trump's consistent antipathy towards Barack Obama.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies
May 19, 2020
Five history professors at two-year institutions have been recognized for their vital contributions to scholarship, teaching, and their communities.
Source: MediaPost
May 19, 2020
The event series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment will feature historians Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay, and Susan Ware.
Source: The New York Times
May 19, 2020
A review of Jia Lynn Yang's new work "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide," and Adam Goodman's "The Deportation Machine."
Source: Carleton Newsroom
May 19, 2020
Carleton University history professor Jennifer Evans was introduced to competitive powerlifting by a student and has moved to international competition.
