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: NY Times
Nov 9, 2019
Some 500 enslaved people revolted in Louisiana but were largely ignored by history. Two centuries later, an ambitious re-enactment brings their uprising back to life.
Source: The First News
Nov 9, 2019
by Alex Webber
A team of local historians unearthed the remains of a garden and greenhouse complex once used to grow vegetables destined for the Fuhrer’s dining table.
Source: Time
Nov 9, 2019
Steps taken in Nebraska are a window into the way that conversation is changing, amid increased public scrutiny of what American students are learning about history.
Source: New York Times
Nov 9, 2019
"The Warrior Tradition," a new film set to air on PBS, examines the complex history of Native Americans in the U.S. military since World War I and how their service transformed the lives for Native Americans from various tribes.
Source: Collegiate Times
Nov 8, 2019
Robertson started his journey with Virginia Tech after joining the faculty in 1967, where he taught the nation’s largest Civil War history course, attracting 300 students each semester.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 8, 2019
by Marc Parry
The U. of Mississippi has distanced itself from much of its Confederate past. Will it ever do the same with its popular nickname?
Source: US News
Nov 7, 2019
by Catherin Shaer
“The German Publics Growing worries over global tensions – in part tied to Trump’s policies – are stirring a revived interest in Cold War artifacts”
Source: Society for US Intellectual History
Nov 7, 2019
by Andrew Klumpp
Klumpp reflects on USIH, what it means to be an intellectual historian and the USIH community
Nov 7, 2019
by Orbis Conservation
In what is the most ambitious sculpture conservation project currently taking place in the UK, 14 monumental 19th century naval figureheads have been saved from decay for the nation.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 7, 2019
The article, "What Would It Take to Unify Korea? Germany Offers Lessons, examines all that is still left to do to reunify Germany 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Source: New York Review of Books
Nov 7, 2019
by Evan Thomas
Those of a certain age, particularly women, know where they were when they heard that the president was naming a woman to the Supreme Court.
Source: Nursing Clio
Nov 6, 2019
by Jaipreet Virdi
"The history of the cigarette does not begin and end with Big Tobacco."
Source: The Guardian
Nov 5, 2019
The most powerful videos use human beings to personify world actors – such as countries – in major historical events.
Source: Facing South
Nov 5, 2019
The poisonous Lost Cause lessons were taught to multiple generations of Southerners to uphold institutionalized white supremacy — in part through public school curriculums shaped by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
Source: VOA
Nov 4, 2019
His decades-long research to expose the scale of the late Communist leader’s terror have met with mounting criticism under Russian President Vladimir Putin and landed him in jail in the Karelian capital of Petrozavodsk in northwest Russia.
Source: The Times of Israel
Nov 4, 2019
In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 3, 2019
by Amanda Holpuch
Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar explains how the abolitionist may be one of the best-known women in US history – but years of her life are usually ‘erased’
Source: Washington Post
Nov 1, 2019
by Drew Faust
How slavery warped Jefferson’s vision for the University of Virginia.
Source: The New York Times
Nov 1, 2019
A review of Matthew Lockwood's book "To begin the world all over again: how the American Revolution devestated the globe".
Source: Washington Post
Nov 1, 2019
Historian Janice Hayes-Williams was just starting out as an amateur local historian when she found out Smith Price had been deeply disrespected.
