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: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 12, 2020
The University of Mississippi remained insistent that it was correct and justified in terminating the employment of history professor Garrett Felber.
Source: DePaulia
Jan 12, 2020
"The decade’s glamor and glitz overpowers its racism, crime and economic troubles."
Source: The Third Narrative
Jan 12, 2020
Members of the Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) were instrumental in defeating two proposed resolutions at the business meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020.
Jan 12, 2020
by Matthew Crawford
"Fire is a creation of the living world, but we have defined it as a phenomenon for physics and chemistry...we’ve mostly ignored the ideas and institutions that shape the social half of the equation."
Source: Perspectives on History
Jan 10, 2020
by James Grossman and Becky Nicolaides
The AHA encourages history departments to provide full library access to their own scholar alumni and to unaffiliated historians in their regions.
Source: Smithsonian
Jan 9, 2020
Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage With Exhibitions
Source: Yes! Magazine
Jan 9, 2020
Feauting quotes from historian Greg Grandin.
Source: NY Times
Jan 8, 2020
The New-York Historical Society has acquired Mr. Caro’s papers — some 200 linear feet of material that will be open to researchers in its library.
Source: New York Times
Jan 7, 2020
Joanne Freeman, Annette Gordon-Reed, Manisha Sinha and Gregory Downs offer insight into the history of the term "sedition," the relationship between speech and deed, and the specific context of white supremacy that has accompanied discussions of sedition since the overthrow of reconstruction.
Source: Democracy Now!
Jan 7, 2020
Historian Manisha Sinha discusses the antecedents of Wednesday's mob invasion of the U.S. Capitol, incited by Donald Trump during the certification of the electoral college victory of Joe Biden.
Source: NPR
Jan 7, 2020
NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor in Princeton University's Department of African American Studies, about how police handled the breach of the Capitol.
Source: Society of U.S. Intellectual History
Jan 7, 2020
by Tim Lacy
A Decade in Review: Cultural Markers, Keywords, and Other (Totally Subjective) Noteworthy Things
Source: The Guardian
Jan 7, 2020
Academic researchers of Iranian history, archaeology, art and culture, based in national museums and universities across the world, react in horror to the US president’s threat to target Iranian sites.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 7, 2020
James M. Goode was a Smithsonian Institution historian and author who wrote books about the statues and architecture of Washington, specializing in the out-of-the-way, the lesser-known, the trivial, the no-longer extant and the never-heard-of.
Source: New York Magazine
Jan 7, 2020
Featuring historians David Greenberg, Christopher R. Browning, Robert O. Paxton, Steven J. Ross, Susan Dunn, and Geoffrey Perret.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 7, 2020
Historians approve an anti-ICE resolution but vote down anti-Israel proposals at their annual meeting. They also show support for nontenured colleagues.
Source: New York Times
Jan 7, 2020
“Wilmington’s Lie” is a tragic story about the brutal overthrow of the multiracial government of Wilmington, N.C., in 1898.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 6, 2020
by Daniel Genkins
Paper archives are vulnerable to flooding, humidity, insects, and rodents, among other threats. Political instability can cut off money used to maintain archives and institutional neglect can transform precious records into moldy rubbish.
Source: Boston Review
Jan 6, 2020
After retiring from Princeton, celebrated historian Nell Irvin Painter decided to go to art school. In this interview with Walter Johnson, she discusses what it’s like to be an old student, and how art lets her tell truths about history that she couldn’t as an academic.
Source: NPR
Jan 6, 2020
Featuring historian Michaael Kazin.
