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: Black Perspectives
May 12, 2020
From May 18-22, a group of five scholars will participate in a roundtable to discuss Hartman's most recent work.
Source: Axios
May 12, 2020
Labor historian John Logan reflects on how the coronavirus crisis has impacted Americans' attitudes towards workers.
Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
May 12, 2020
Archivists are asking for blog posts, photos, signs, even T-shirts to capture pandemic history as it's happening.
Source: New York Times
May 12, 2020
An attack by the pirate Henry Every on a ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India jeopardized the toehold the British East India Company had gained in India. The British government's response helped launch imperial rule.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 12, 2020
"[Jackson State] reflects so many themes in the history of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans."
Source: Vox
May 11, 2020
Nicole Hemmer and Jared Yates Sexton offer historical perspective on the growing presence of armed groups at protests.
Source: WBUR
May 11, 2020
An interview with historian Kenneth C. Davis about his book on the 1918 outbreak, "More Deadly than War."
Source: WBUR
May 11, 2020
Historian Peter Ward, author of "The Clean Body: A Modern History," contextualizes handwashing among humans.
Source: The New Yorker
May 11, 2020
by Thomas Meaney
Barry Gewen's new biography of the American national security figure argues that Kissinger's perspective was shaped by stories older German emigres told him about the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism.
Source: Newsday
May 11, 2020
A review of historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck’s new book "The Women With Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II."
Source: Vanity Fair
May 11, 2020
The hosts of these shows, including historians Nicole Hemmer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Walter Isaacson, and Erik Larson, use the past to help us understand our difficult present.
Source: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
May 11, 2020
Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks is a new program that features the most exciting history scholars in America discussing their books with host William Roka live, followed by a Q&A with home audiences.
Source: ArtNews
May 10, 2020
In her exhibition “The Unknown Artist," curator Lucy Cotter probes the very values of attribution.
Source: The New York Times
May 10, 2020
An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide?
Source: The New York Times
May 10, 2020
A former police officer with a Harvard Ph.D., he brought a street cop’s experience and a scholarly perspective to the Citizens Crime Commission in New York.
Source: The Spokesman-Review
May 10, 2020
Historian Adam Sowards' most recent work "An Open Pit Visible from the Moon" delves into the effort to block the mining of Miners Ridge in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area.
Source: The Guardian
May 9, 2020
The historian offers a hopeful view of human nature in his latest book, "Humankind." It couldn’t have come at a better time.
Source: Wilton Bulletin
May 9, 2020
The Invisible Histories Project has received the Society of American Archivists' Archival Innovator Award for their efforts in preserving LGBTQ history.
Source: PinkNews
May 9, 2020
The gay historian wrote Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, which was published in 2004 and cemented Carter as the leading expert on the riots outside New York’s Stonewall Inn in June 1969.
Source: NPR
May 9, 2020
FDA approval of oral contraception in 1960 had a transformative effect on women's lives but remains controversial today.
