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: LA Review of Books
Dec 13, 2019
by Jason S. Sexton
TONY PLATT’S Beyond These Walls provides a relentless critique of the United States’s carceral regime, prompting us to rethink how criminal justice institutions operate.
Source: NY Times
Dec 13, 2019
The author of acclaimed biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass, he also helped establish Yale’s black studies department.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
Dec 12, 2019
Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum has spent her career studying black women’s history. So, when the Montgomery native and Florida A&M University history professor was approached last summer to serve as a model for a monument to legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks, she didn’t hesitate to say yes.
Source: AP News
Dec 12, 2019
The long-awaited American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City is getting a new name. City and tribal officials announced Thursday the facility will be called the First Americans Museum.
Source: Black Perspectives
Dec 12, 2019
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stood in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently denied tenure at Harvard University.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Dec 12, 2019
The originals remain at the National Archives, but new 3-D scans showcase the ballistics in vivid detail
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 11, 2019
Graduate workers at Harvard are striking. Here’s what they want, and how they plan to get it.
Source: BBC History Magazine
Dec 10, 2019
In the Christmas 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now, 11 historians selected their favourite historical page-turners published in 2019 .
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 10, 2019
by Annette Gordon-Reed
"The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed."
Source: Roger Williams University News
Dec 10, 2019
Associate Professor of History Autumn Quezada-Grant brings history into the modern age with a course assignment to create social media accounts for famous figures.
Source: Slate
Dec 9, 2019
An interview with Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 9, 2019
The move has outraged professional and amateur genealogists, who argue that the increase would effectively put valuable immigration information out of reach for many.
Source: Boston Globe
Dec 9, 2019
García Peña's case has become a rallying cry for Harvard students and alumni who have been pushing the university to establish an ethnic studies department for nearly 50 years.
Source: NY Times
Dec 9, 2019
Is a bronze statue discovered in France a 16th century Renaissance masterpiece or a (much less valuable) 17th century copy? Readers shared their theories, opinions and expertise.
Source: NPR
Dec 9, 2019
At one time, there were 10 million Yahoo Groups with more than 100 million users - from neighborhood organizations to amateur astronomers. On Saturday, the archives disappeared.
Source: Virginia Mercury
Dec 6, 2019
Includes a qutoe from Melvin Patrick Ely, a College of William & Mary history professor.
Source: Cornell Chronicle
Dec 5, 2019
Tierney was a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Medieval Academy of America.
Source: Irish Times
Dec 5, 2019
Four Courts fire at start of Civil War destroyed centuries of historic documents.
Source: Foreign Affairs
Dec 5, 2019
Banner describes the book as an exercise of “historians’ civic office.”
Source: The Conversation
Dec 3, 2019
by Jeff Inglis
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