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: NPR
Nov 17, 2019
NPR's Michel Martin poses listener questions about the impeachment inquiry to historian Jeffrey Engel, co-author of Impeachment: An American History.
Nov 17, 2019
by Julia Brown
Compensation for historically disadvantaged minorities is nothing new.
Source: Politico
Nov 16, 2019
Historians Frank O. Bowman III, Timothy Naftali, Allan J. Lichtman, Brenda Wineapple, and David Priess weigh in.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 15, 2019
“All too often, we look at history as these singular events that happened long ago. We sometimes try to connect many of those events to the present, but we fail to realize sometimes that the events that are unfolding around us every day are historic, too."
Source: Smithsonian.org
Nov 15, 2019
by Erin Blakemore
Packed with ordinary objects made and used by American women, Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection considers their contributions to the nation’s history through the lens of the things they invented, created and owned.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 15, 2019
Nelson acknowledges that she’s sometimes “approached Charles from unfamiliar angles which can be unexpectedly illuminating.”
Source: The Guardian
Nov 14, 2019
In a letter to the Guardian, they said: “To ignore it because Brexit looms larger is to declare that anti-Jewish prejudice is a price worth paying for a Labour government.”
Source: Washingtonian
Nov 14, 2019
A conversation with Allan Lichtman, who's correctly predicted every election since 1984.
Source: NPR
Nov 14, 2019
'Who Is An Evangelical?' Looks At History Of Evangelical Christians And The GOP
Source: The Guardian
Nov 14, 2019
by Tobias Jones
A gripping narrative within A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead of four extraordinary women who delivered intelligence, letters and weaponry in the cause of resisting the German occupation of Italy
Source: National Archives News
Nov 14, 2019
by James Worsham
Worsham summarizes the thoughts portrayed by panel on women suffragists and men who supported them with scholars like Johanna Newman, Brooke Kroeger, and Susan Ware.
Source: AHA Perspectives on History
Nov 14, 2019
New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.
Source: The New York Times
Nov 14, 2019
by Daniel Slotnik
In memoriam of legendary Civil War historian James I. Robertson Jr.
Source: World Socialist Web Site
Nov 14, 2019
by Tom Mackaman
“Opposition to slavery has also been an important theme in American history”
Source: Literary Hub
Nov 13, 2019
by James Loewen
James W. Loewen Wonders What Happened to Vietnam.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 12, 2019
They reflect on how all of this might play out in the months and years to come, and how Americans should feel about it.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 12, 2019
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?
Source: Black Perspectives
Nov 11, 2019
by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten
An introduction to the online forum and a list of the articles published as part of it so far.
Source: LA Times
Nov 11, 2019
Ignatiev’s ideas have continued to be controversial, particularly as race has returned to the center of American politics.
Source: Cobbloviate Blog
Nov 11, 2019
by Jim Cobb
At the SHA meeting 70 years ago, John Hope Franklin became the first black scholar to present a paper at the conference.
