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
Mar 16, 2020
by Olivia B. Waxman
As captioning advocate Philip Bravin puts it, whenever people “watch captions in noisy environments such as gyms and bars, they have the deaf community to thank.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
Mar 16, 2020
by Gustavo Arellano
Through letters, newspaper clippings, city council minutes, diaries, and photos, these collections offer lessons from the past that historians say can teach people today about how to confront coronavirus.
Source: Harvard Business Review
Mar 16, 2020
In an email exchange hosted by the Harvard Business Review, Professor of Business Rebecca Henderson and Professor of History Jill Lepore discussed capitalism’s role in an increasingly populist world.
Source: Politico
Mar 16, 2020
According to our experts, Bernie Sanders may not have won the debate, or the 2020 Democratic primary. But he changed his party, and Joe Biden, for the better.
Source: Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Mar 16, 2020
NARA approved ICE’s request to begin destroying the records in December 2019, despite ongoing concerns and reports of widespread mistreatment of individuals detained in ICE custody.
Source: Forward
Mar 15, 2020
by PJ Grisar
Not that long ago, America welcomed its first Nazis.
Source: Citylab
Mar 14, 2020
by Brentin Mock
As Dr. Rana Hogarth wrote in her book Medicalizing Blackness about the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia: “The idea of innate black immunity placed an undue burden on the city’s black inhabitants."
Source: The Guardian
Mar 14, 2020
Lidice’s survivors hit back at claims that Jewish woman was denounced to Nazis as academics resign over state interference.
Source: NPR
Mar 14, 2020
Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds's new book is Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. Right from its first few pages the authors promise that "this is not a history book."
Source: Washington Post
Mar 13, 2020
Bynum, a white Republican in deeply red Oklahoma, said he would not back down from trying to find answers to what happened.
Source: Washington Examiner
Mar 12, 2020
by Angela Nagle
All the way back in 2010, Turchin warned that the historical patterns were lining up to indicate a coming period of instability and violence in America, which he expected to peak in the 2020s.
Source: Erie News Now
Mar 12, 2020
For immigration historians and other scholars, the way US President Donald Trump is describing the coronavirus pandemic has a familiar ring.
Source: New York Times
Mar 11, 2020
by Peter Baker
It is too early to say how President Trump’s actions in the coronavirus outbreak will affect his legacy, but history is filled with lessons.
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Mar 11, 2020
by John Fea
The New York Times Magazine offers some nuance. It appears that a recent panel featuring Alan Taylor, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others had something to do with this.
Source: Futurism
Mar 10, 2020
Science has progressed, sure, but leaders have ignored other lessons, argues historian Graham Mooney.
Source: New York Times
Mar 10, 2020
“We are changing the narrative at this moment in history,” said Michele Pecoraro, executive director of Plymouth 400. Today, she said, “it is all about a shared history among four nations, that looks at it from that perspective probably for the first time. The Wampanoag involvement is a first. The Netherlands involvement is a first. Those added perspectives offer more of a balanced picture.”
Source: New York Times
Mar 10, 2020
by Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff
Mr. Sanders is right: All these countries provide universal coverage. But what he doesn’t talk about is the excruciating battle they went through to get there.
Source: Politico
Mar 9, 2020
Historians Julian Zelizer and Douglas Brinkley evaluate President Trump's decision to use the coronavirus for political ends.
Source: Smithsonian Mag
Mar 9, 2020
by Meilan Solly
A new public history initiative spearheaded by historians Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan is poised to bring a series of guidebooks for gay travelers into the digital age, drawing on more than 30,000 listings compiled between 1965 and 1980 to visualize queer spaces’ evolution over time.
Source: Jewish Exponent
Mar 9, 2020
According to historian Melissa R. Klapper, Pinzer’s story has been of great interest to scholars of gender and working-class women because her letters are among the only firsthand accounts of prostitution during the early 20th century. “She was also quite self-aware about the role that gender norms and limitations on women, especially economic, had played in her life.”
