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: TIME
May 8, 2020
The Polish historian Jan Grabowski is one of many scholars whose work has been challenged and attacked by right-wing nationalists who wish to present a purely heroic version of how Poles acted during World War II.
Source: New York Times
May 8, 2020
Ian Whitcomb forsook pop stardom to study and preserve forms of music popular before rock and roll.
Source: The New Yorker
May 7, 2020
An interview with historian Evelynn Hammonds on the relationship between African-Americans and epidemics in American history, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Source: Radio Free Europe
May 7, 2020
Yury Dmitriyev's supporters have said charges were brought against him because of his research into a side of history that complicates the Kremlin's glorification of the Soviet past.
Source: TIME
May 7, 2020
Here are four films that accurately depict life during and after the war, according to Rob Citino, Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum.
Source: New York Times
May 7, 2020
Daniel Pipes, prominent conservative American commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, gives six reasons to believe that taking over Palestinian territory would harm both U.S.-Israel relations and Israel’s status as the Jewish state.
Source: WBUR
May 6, 2020
The Harvard professor explores questions such as, "Where did the idea of a fact as an elemental unit of evidence come from? And then, what forces have undermined that over the years and especially recently?”
Source: Washington Post
May 6, 2020
Conservative columnist George Will contends that the 1619 Project undermines trust in journalism by taking on a political project.
Source: Jacobin
May 5, 2020
Ewan Gibbs reviews Dominick Sandbrook's popular history of the Thatcher era
Source: AL.com
May 5, 2020
The NPR Podcast about the murder of Rev. James Reeb, the Unitarian minister and civil rights activist who traveled to Selma, Ala. to support the fight for black voting rights in the South, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting.
Source: Stanford Daily
May 5, 2020
The art history professor used the racial slur while writing the full name of the group N.W.A. and when discussing one of its albums.
Source: UConn Today
May 5, 2020
Historian Nu-Ahn Tran argues that internal documents show that the government of the Republic of Vietnam worked toward its own goals and agenda rather than simply following direction from Washington to fight Communists.
Source: Washington Examiner
May 5, 2020
Allen Guelzo has been a major critic of the New York Times's "1619 Project" and objects to the projects central essay winning the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Source: Daily Beast
May 5, 2020
The author's encounter with a family trove of news clippings from V-E day was cause for reflection on victory as a process, not an event.
Source: Huffington Post
May 4, 2020
Doris Kearns Goodwin added some perspective to the president’s complaint.
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
May 4, 2020
The Pulitzer committee described McDaniel’s work as “A masterfully researched meditation on reparations based on the remarkable story of a 19th century woman who survived kidnapping and re-enslavement to sue her captor.”
Source: Mother Jones
May 4, 2020
As COVID-19 rages around the world, archivists, librarians, oral historians, and activists have spun up oral history projects to document their communities’ everyday experiences during an extraordinary social, political, cultural, and historical moment.
Source: NPR
May 4, 2020
In this podcast, medical historian Dr. Howard Markel shares lessons to be learned from the 1918 flu outbreak, and podcast host shares 102-year-old letters from her aunt's family.
Source: The Pulitzer Prizes
May 4, 2020
Historian Greg Grandin's book on the history and symbolism of the border (and border walls) has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
May 3, 2020
UNC history professor James Leloudis has studied how the global 1918 influenza pandemic tore through North Carolina.
