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: Philadelphia Inquirer
Apr 7, 2020
Critics of Self Made could not contain their indignation over Walker’s life narrative being twisted into a colorism-fueled cat fight, an early 1900s Real Housewives.
Source: Black Perspectives
Apr 6, 2020
A roster of historians of racism and law enforcement including Melanie Newport, Max Felker-Kantor, Anne Gray Fischer and Dan Berger discuss Simon Balto's book Occupied Territory on policing in Black Chicago.
Source: The Metropole
Apr 6, 2020
As a result of the uncertainly resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the Urban History Association has decided to postpone by one year our biennial conference previously scheduled for October 2020.
Source: The Bulwark
Apr 6, 2020
The pandemic makes a mockery of Trump’s core principle.
Source: The Times
Apr 6, 2020
The scandal-prone poet came from a family mired in cuckoldry, cowardice and killing.
Source: The New York Times
Apr 6, 2020
The obsession with office “face time” hurts women. When the coronavirus pandemic is behind us, let’s not return to it.
Source: New York Times
Apr 6, 2020
In a new book, the writer and illustrator Ben Katchor celebrates the places that have fed New York’s craving for blintzes, matzo brei and other delicacies.
Source: Nature
Apr 6, 2020
Up close, the all too human business of doing science is messy.
Source: New York Times
Apr 6, 2020
by Michael Ignatieff
A white liberal progressive confronts the issue of race in America with beliefs that make it difficult to face a reality that their fellow citizens of black or Hispanic origin take for granted.
Source: American Historical Association
Apr 6, 2020
Like our colleagues in related disciplines, historians can also explore the challenges public health authorities, governments, and nonprofit institutions face.
Source: Organization of American Historians
Apr 6, 2020
The Organization of American Historians has announced the winners of its annual prizes for scholarship and service.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 5, 2020
Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis has cemented him as the worst president in American history, argues historian Max Boot.
Source: NPR
Apr 5, 2020
It's changing the way we work, we live, we communicate, what we expect from our governments. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Yuval Noah Harari about what happens once COVID-19 is beaten.
Source: Observer
Apr 5, 2020
Many of the world's greatest landmarks and artworks are just a click away.
Source: BBC
Apr 5, 2020
A new Netflix series tells the story of Madam CJ Walker - a trail-blazing black female entrepreneur in the early 20th century.
Source: New York Times
Apr 5, 2020
The hull of a ship that surfaces every few years on a Maine beach may have been the Defiance, a sloop built in 1754.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Apr 4, 2020
Once used to fuel extraordinary acts of worship and creativity, coffee has become a necessity we rely on to meet the everyday demands of modern capitalism.
Source: Haaretz
Apr 4, 2020
Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes believes the coronavirus may be a 'dress rehearsal' for the climate catastrophe looming on the horizon – and suggests why people want to deny both threats.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 3, 2020
How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 2, 2020
In 1918, with a different virus, masks didn’t help.
