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: HowStuffWorks
Apr 29, 2020
Author Kristin Downey covered Social Security for years, which has driven her to correct the tendency to overlook Frances Perkins's key contributions to the most important social welfare program in America.
Source: The Academic Minute
Apr 29, 2020
In this podcast, Melanie Pavich discusses the research and service-learning based courses for undergraduate students she developed centered on the study of African American communities and schools in coastal Georgia.
Source: The Guardian
Apr 29, 2020
From arguments about masks to riots outside hospitals, history shows some common threads in the human response to pandemics.
Source: Hyperallergic
Apr 29, 2020
Architectural Historian Mabel O. Wilson delivered the Cooper Union's annual Eleanore Pettersen Lecture on the memorialization of racial violence on April 29.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Apr 28, 2020
Shestack's decades-long career included top leadership roles at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Art.
Source: Time
Apr 28, 2020
In her new book "No Man's Land," Wendy Moore recounts the story of the women who ran the Endell Street Military Hospital, a London hospital staffed almost entirely by women during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 28, 2020
Historians Nell Irvin Painter, Samuel Moyn, and Premilla Nadasen are early signatories of a letter aimed at pressuring universities to offer greater job security to adjunct, contingent, and term-contracted instructors, noting that institutions' pledges to delay tenure decisions for tenure-track faculty do not help the largest group of university faculty.
Source: iBerkshires.com
Apr 28, 2020
Amanda Kleintop, an assistant professor of history at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her continuing research.
Source: The New York Times
Apr 28, 2020
Canceled rallies. A looming election. A stretched health care system with a predominantly female face. Women’s frustrations then resonate loud and clear today.
Source: Upworthy
Apr 28, 2020
Local authorities in Nurnberg recently voted to conserve (not rebuild or renovate) the site of some of Hitler's most notorious speeches.
Source: America Magazine
Apr 27, 2020
Phyllis Zagano's most recent work "Women: Icons of Christ," examines the ways women have participated and been acknowledged as deacons in the body of Christ.
Source: New York Times
Apr 27, 2020
Historians including David Kennedy, Andrew Bacevich, David Oshinsky and Wilfred McClay discuss whether the idea of American uniqueness has hurt national preparedness for an epidemic, if it will help or hinder recovery, and if the COVID-19 crisis will dislodge the idea from popular consciousness.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Apr 27, 2020
The National Park Service and Historic Preservation Fund awarded the grant to an Americus preservation group to create a new civil rights museum in the original building of a Jim Crow-era hospital that served the black population of southwest Georgia.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 27, 2020
History professors Kevin Gannon and Christopher Jones are among the faculty members who share ways to make final exams or projects meaningful learning experiences at the end of a difficult semester.
Source: KRWG
Apr 27, 2020
Retired history professor Jon Hunner's blog is a travelogue of a 60,000 mile journey to visit the National Parks system.
Source: CNN
Apr 27, 2020
Geologist Rebecca Flowers has recently published a paper that suggests cataclysimic events that separated eras in natural history may have taken place at different times globally.
Source: Radical History Review
Apr 27, 2020
Arlen Austin, Beth Capper, and Tracey Deutsch present a list of readings about the history of movements to demand wages for the domestic and family work typically performed by women.
Source: The New York Times
Apr 27, 2020
Yuri Dmitriev's family believes he has been jailed on false pedophelia charges because his findings challenge a sanitized version of history favored by Russian nationalists.
Source: The New York Times
Apr 26, 2020
“He doesn’t speak the language of transcendence, what we have in common,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a historian of American political rhetoric at Texas A&M University.
Source: Monthly Review
Apr 26, 2020
From the bloody labor struggles of Harlan County, “Which Side Are You On?” made its way into a New York recording studio, and got modified to fit the message of countless underdog protagonists.
