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: Fast Company
Dec 3, 2019
"Like the second wave feminists who popularized the expression, we believe the personal is political,” writes Michelle Delaney.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Dec 3, 2019
by Scott Jaschik
Laurel Leff discusses her book on the failure of American universities to rescue scholars seeking to flee Nazi Germany.
Source: The Diplomat
Dec 2, 2019
A recent detention has implications for China-Japan relations.
Source: TIME
Dec 2, 2019
by Suyin Haynes
As the second wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn was one of the most powerful women in the world in the 16th century.
Source: AHA Perspectives on History
Dec 2, 2019
by James Grossman
Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.
Source: USA Today
Dec 2, 2019
by Hillel Italie
Robert K. Massie was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specialized in best-selling and critically praised history of Russian tsars.
Source: New York Times
Dec 1, 2019
A decorated soldier in World War II, he helped reshape the study of war and was knighted in 1986 for his academic work.
Source: The Nation
Dec 1, 2019
by Michael Kazin
Eric Foner’s story of American freedom, The Second Founding, sheds new light on how the Civil War and Reconstruction influenced the Constitution.
Source: World Socialist Web Site
Nov 28, 2019
“When the Declaration says that all men are created equal, that is no myth”
Source: New York Times
Nov 27, 2019
Marilyn Yalom, a feminist author and historian, died on Nov. 20 at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. She was 87.
Source: NPR
Nov 25, 2019
The U.S. has a long and largely forgotten history of violence against Latinos, says Monica Muñoz Martinez, an assistant professor of American studies at Brown University and author of “The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas.”
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Nov 22, 2019
by Angela Serratore
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today.
Source: Black Perspectives
Nov 22, 2019
by J. T. Roane
An interview with Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019).
Source: NY Times
Nov 21, 2019
He documented the often overlooked contributions of black people in books for young adults, helping to refashion social studies curriculums across the country.
Source: LA Review of Books
Nov 21, 2019
by Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper reviews Anthony T. Kronman's new book, The Assault on American Excellence.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 20, 2019
Seymour praised his wife, then known as Dorothy Z. Seymour, for her “indispensable” work in his acknowledgments, but her contributions turned out to be much greater than most people realized.
Source: Brown Daily Herald
Nov 19, 2019
Robert Douglas Cope remembered for compassion, engaging lectures.
Source: New York Times
Nov 19, 2019
by Matti Friedman
A writer tells the story of a region through the lens of one well-documented clan.
Source: World Wide Socialist Web
Nov 18, 2019
"Collectively their work has prompted some very strong criticism from scholars in the field. My concern is that by avoiding some of the basic analytical questions, most of the scholars have backed into a neo-liberal economic interpretation of slavery."
Source: The National Archives AOTUS Blog
Nov 18, 2019
by David Ferriero
Ferriero discusses how the National Archives has advanced their digital access for their records through collaboration, innovation, and learning.
