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: New York Times
Feb 29, 2020
If in 2020, we agree that all lives matter, then all lives mattered then, too, so we should find a way to demonstrate that. One way is to democratize our landscape.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 28, 2020
Historian Matthew Delmont's website Black Quotidian features profiles of hundreds of African Americans taken from black newspapers mostly between the 1900s and the 1980s.
Source: Boston Globe
Feb 27, 2020
“What happens when we think of this as an event that is populated by women and children as well as just guys with guns?”
Source: Jewish News of Northern California
Feb 26, 2020
Craig-Norton’s findings offer parallels to the migrant child-parent separation issues of today and provide valuable lessons.
Source: Richmond News
Feb 25, 2020
How does history help explain the current panic about the novel coronavirus?
Source: NY Times
Feb 23, 2020
24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life
Source: Washington Post
Feb 22, 2020
It has never been proved that the vanishing of the records, often undertaken by white officials, was intentional or coordinated, she said. Still, it had far-reaching consequences.
Source: History.com
Feb 21, 2020
Historians Marcia Chatelain and Mireya Loza are featured in the History Channel's documentary on the rise of fast food in America.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Feb 21, 2020
by Gordon S. Wood
What shocked colonists like George Washington into war? Britain’s imperious actions in Boston.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 21, 2020
As has happened fairly regularly during the Trump administration, historians on Twitter expressed their displeasure after Trump praised Gone with the Wind.
Source: Black Perspectives
Feb 20, 2020
by Brandon K. Winford
In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that centers on Black women in the largely male-dominated banking sector between the 1860s and 1930s.
Source: AP
Feb 20, 2020
In announcing the release date Thursday, HarperCollins called “Battlegrounds” a “groundbreaking reassessment of America’s place in the world..."
Source: New York Review of Books Daily
Feb 20, 2020
by Sean Wilentz
"Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace"
Source: Salon
Feb 19, 2020
Historian and author of "Believe Me" on his struggle to reach the embattled evangelicals who oppose Trump.
Source: Vox
Feb 18, 2020
Featuring Shennette Garrett-Scott, LaGarrett King, Sowande Mustakeem, Douglas J. Flowe, Jason Allen, and Dale Allender.
Feb 17, 2020
Zara Steiner, a historian whose magisterial books on 20th-century diplomacy were considered authoritative studies of Europe from World War I to World War II, died Feb. 13 at her home in Cambridge, England. She was 91.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 16, 2020
For all the iconic presidents she has profiled — Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson among them — Goodwin has never written a biography of George Washington.
Source: Newsweek
Feb 16, 2020
In this interview, Shugerman faults Barr for refusing to use special counsels, and calls for structural reforms to ensure greater Justice Department independence in the future.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 16, 2020
‘Something has to be done’: Trump’s quest to rewrite history of the Russia probe.
Source: BillyPenn
Feb 15, 2020
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