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: Texas Monthly
Jan 5, 2020
Louise Raggio was the Texas attorney who pushed for the Marital Property Act of 1967 which legally allowed married women to take legal and financial actions without their husbands' permission (her prior legal career had been in technical violation of the law).
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Jan 5, 2020
by Sari Beth Rosenberg
Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association.
Source: CNN
Jan 3, 2020
"I've been using that word for months now," historian and author Timothy Snyder told Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.
Source: KUT.org
Jan 3, 2020
In his book “Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide,” author C.J. Alvarez explores 150 years of border-barrier history.
Source: Backstory Radio
Jan 3, 2020
BackStory began in 2008 as a monthly radio show.
Source: Foreign Affairs
Jan 1, 2020
Sir Michael Howard, who died on November 30, 2019, a day after his 97th birthday, was a giant in the worlds of military history and strategic studies.
Source: NY Times
Dec 31, 2019
Her arguments that a little more virtuousness trumps any number of government social programs made her a hero to some and a bête noire to others.
Source: Washignton Post
Dec 31, 2019
“Everything goes,” said Sonya Gavankar, a Newseum spokeswoman and 20-year veteran of the facility.
Source: Tokyo Review
Dec 30, 2019
The China-related story that most agitated the minds of Japanese academia this fall was undoubtedly the arrest of Iwatani Nobu, a professor of modern Chinese history at Hokkaidō University, detained in early September on suspicion of spying during a trip to Beijing.
Source: Politico
Dec 29, 2019
by Nicholas Lemann
His historical research and writing was substantially about American politics and government in modern times.
Source: Politico
Dec 27, 2019
Politico asked 23 top historians to write the paragraph that will describe the past decade, 100 years from now.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 24, 2019
“What’s at stake is potentially losing the opportunity for the museum to be another instrument through which to build peace in Colombia,” said Rafael Tamayo, an academic who until recently served as the museum’s leader.
Source: Cornell Chronicle
Dec 23, 2019
Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus, a renowned scholar of English and American political thought and history, and a longtime champion of undergraduate education, died Dec. 21 in New York City. Kramnick was 81.
Source: Reuters
Dec 19, 2019
Indian police detained one of the country’s most respected historians and intellectuals, Ramachandra Guha, on Thursday during a demonstration in the southern city of Bengaluru against a new citizenship law based on religion.
Source: New York Magazine
Dec 18, 2019
“I’m a student of Watergate,” Brinkley says. “I was alive and doing cable TV and journalism during Clinton’s impeachment. What I see happening with Trump seems to me far worse.”
Source: Nursing Clio
Dec 17, 2019
by Bridget Keown
Music forms a critical part of every documented human culture, providing a functional and emotional form of communication.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Dec 17, 2019
Louisiana Tech University briefly removed an instructor of history from teaching over class discussions on race and other topics before reinstating him this month.
Source: Ms. Magazine
Dec 16, 2019
by Keisha N. Blain
Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective in 1974—best known for its groundbreaking Combahee River Collective Statement, which called attention to racism in the feminist movement and sexual oppression in the Black community.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Dec 16, 2019
by Elliot Kaufman
"The New York Times tries to rewrite U.S. history, but its falsehoods are exposed by surprising sources."
Source: NPR
Dec 14, 2019
Jonathan Rosenberg, a professor of history at Hunter College, has a new book that examines this phenomenon. It's called Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from The Great War through the Cold War.
