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: Slate
May 3, 2020
by Rebecca Onion
According to scholar Elizabeth Outka, the tragedy haunts modernist literature between the lines.
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
May 3, 2020
The early American historian passed away on May 2 after contracting coronavirus.
Source: WBUR
May 3, 2020
An interview with science historian Naomi Oreskes on the impact of the coronavirus on the relationship between science and politics.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 3, 2020
Historians are collecting archival documents related to COVID-19 in real-time to ensure that no experience with the virus is forgotten.
Source: Bloomberg
May 3, 2020
When historians rank the worst presidents in American history, indecision and inaction in the face of crisis are common attributes. Until now, most of the worst served before or after the Civil War.
Source: The Hill
May 3, 2020
John Barry's book The Great Influenza demonstrates how federalism can work effectively in a crisis. By that standard, the current response leaves much to be desired.
Source: Washington Post
May 2, 2020
More than a hundred years ago, germ theory — the discovery that microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses caused disease — had a profound impact on almost every aspect of human behavior, just as the novel coronavirus could do after the current pandemic ends.
Source: The Politic
May 1, 2020
Still, in 2020, there is no brick and mortar NWHM; it exists only virtually.
Source: WCMU
May 1, 2020
Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.
Source: National Catholic Register
May 1, 2020
German historian and Catholic Priest Father Hubert Wolf has claimed that recently opened Vatican documents show Pope Pius XII was complicit with Nazi atrocities. Other Church historians dispute the novelty or veracity of his evidence.
Source: Prospect (UK)
May 1, 2020
History matters as much as economics, statistics, and, yes, even science. Events of the last few months and years show this conclusively.
Source: National Parks Conservation Association
May 1, 2020
Hundreds of people were once enslaved at the opulent Hampton estate, but for decades after the site became part of the National Park System, their stories remained hidden. That is changing.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
May 1, 2020
From kitsch to cool, ride the waves of undulating popularity of a tropical fashion statement.
Source: American Historical Association
Apr 30, 2020
The American Historical Association recently announced 37 winners of its annual research grants.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 30, 2020
Historian John Barry suggests that Trump's insistence, in the face of fact, of dating the flu pandemic to 1917 reflects "insecurity that makes him willing to embrace and fully commit to a mistake rather than admit even the smallest error."
Source: Washington Monthly
Apr 30, 2020
Historian Allen C. Guelzo reviews Fergus Bordewich's new book "Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America," which argues that the 37th and 38th Congresses had a bigger role in the abolition of slavery than the 16th president.
Source: The Hill
Apr 30, 2020
Medical historians Howard Markel and Frank Snowden note how pandemics, including the present one, have to power to completely upend daily life.
Apr 30, 2020
The Society of American Historians has recognized an outstanding group of scholars, writers, and public champions of history with membership.
Source: New York Review of Books
Apr 29, 2020
by Rachel Nolan
While the specter of the MS-13 gang has been central to political panics about immigration, the group's origins are American. A Latin American historian reviews four new books.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 29, 2020
A team of resesarchers led by Hubert Wolf discovered documents suggesting Pope Pius XII knew at an early stage of the Nazi efforts at genocide, concealed those facts from the United States government and others, and concealed documents to protect the Church's image.
