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: Chicago Teachers Union
May 19, 2020
The award-winning historian and public speaker will discuss the relationship between housing policy and racial inequality in the United States
Source: The New Yorker
May 18, 2020
Nicholas Lemann considers Walter Johnson's new book The Broken Heart of America in light of recent debates among historians about the relationship of slavery, capitalism and racism.
Source: Columbus Dispatch
May 18, 2020
Rita Fuller-Yates earned a bachelor's degree in history and worked in corporate America and as a lifestyle columnist. But now she's a fierce avocate for memorializing one of Ohio's black leaders (and the history of African Americans in Columbus) on the grounds of the Statehouse.
Source: The American Prospect
May 18, 2020
by Jeffrey Sachs
Keynes did not give us a checklist of dos and don’ts other than general ones: Don’t waste human talents and physical resources through wanton unemployment, avoidable wars, or breakdowns of social and trade relations.
Source: San Francisco Classical Voice
May 18, 2020
Ian Zack's biography of the singer Odetta reveals a great deal about the limits racism and sexism imposed on her career and the limited terms on which she was accepted by white audiences.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
May 18, 2020
A group of historians including Alison Bashford, Simuka Chigudu, Deborah Coen, Richard Keller, Julie Livingston, Nayan Shah and Paul Weindling discuss the helpful and harmful ways historians have examined the COVID-19 crisis.
Source: Democracy Now!
May 18, 2020
Professor Frank Snowden, who has been quarantined in Rome since the Coronavirus outbreak (and is himself recovering from the illness) discusses his research on the history of pandemics.
Source: JSTOR Daily
May 18, 2020
The study of how baseball evolved, historain David Vaught writes, remains a test of how history is written--from concern with origin moments or attention to ongoing processes of change and development.
Source: Associated Press
May 18, 2020
Historian Lou Martin, a board member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, recounts the oppressive atmosphere in mining towns that led to a violently repressed unionization drive.
Source: WGBH
May 18, 2020
In this podcast, Historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses her new book "How The South Won The Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, And The Continuing Fight For The Soul Of America."
Source: History.com
May 18, 2020
Historian Rebecca Spang's book "The Invention of the Restaurant" examines the French roots of dining out.
Source: Hoodline
May 18, 2020
OpenSFHistory is utilizing their collection of photographs to connect San Franciscans with their community during quarantine.
Source: Chicago History Museum
May 18, 2020
To mark what would have been the 108th birthday of Studs Terkel, Peter T. Alter, CHM chief historian and director of the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, reflects on the memorable moments he shared with Studs at the Museum and Studs’s enduring cultural influence.
Source: ABC Radio National
May 17, 2020
This podcast features historians Jo Hays, Frank Snowden, and Elizabeth Fenn in a discussion of the role of infectious disease in history.
Source: Vice
May 17, 2020
Historians Katherine Landdeck and Mark Tebeau weigh in on the importance of chronicling all types of experiences, no matter how mundane they may seem.
Source: Yahoo Finance
May 17, 2020
"What we find is that in history of crises, in history of pandemics, the young people, ambitious people, people from rural areas who want better jobs flock to cities," says urbanist Richard Florida.
Source: Washington Post
May 17, 2020
Julia Lyons preyed on the sick and dying in Chicago.
Source: New York Times
May 16, 2020
David Carter's research clarified conflicting accounts of the events of June 28, 1969 and helped ensure that the portion of Greenwich Village surrounding the Stonewall Inn would be protected by the National Register of Historic Places.
Source: The New York Times
May 16, 2020
Historian David W. Blight contextualizes the use of Lincoln, and other not-so-popular presidents, in modern political discourse.
Source: Associated Press
May 16, 2020
A Los Angeles cultural and publishing nonprofit is giving its 10th annual book award to a University of North Carolina historian’s account of civil rights in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
