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: Chris Riback's Conversations
Oct 31, 2019
by Chris Riback
An easy way to listen to and understand history-making testimony as it happens.
Source: Slate
Oct 31, 2019
"What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"
Source: The New York Times
Oct 31, 2019
by Jennifer Szalai
“Homewreckers,” by Aaron Glantz and “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor show what happens when private speculators get buoyed by government largess while non-tycoons are largely left to fend for themselves.
Source: Atlas Obscura
Oct 31, 2019
by Troy Rondinone
They are haunted, but not by ghosts.
Source: Nursing Clio
Oct 31, 2019
by Lara Freidenfelds
A review of Brian Rosenwald’s Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States.
Source: The Guardian
Oct 30, 2019
Olivette Otele says she wants to ‘facilitate dialogue that needs to take place’ at University of Bristol.
Source: The New York Times
Oct 29, 2019
by Jiayang Fan
Jung Chang within “Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China” lays out the history of the Soong sisters and how they helped formed the modem Chinese Communist Party.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Oct 29, 2019
How much influence did the Great Awakening, driven by evangelists like George Whitefield, have on the cause of American independence?
Source: NY Times
Oct 27, 2019
Thousands of letters and other artifacts from the life of the radical prankster of the counterculture are sold to the University of Texas at Austin.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 27, 2019
Among Nationals fans, Teddy Roosevelt is a favorite in the ballpark’s Presidents Race. But in real life, he deplored the sport as a ‘mollycoddle game.’
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 26, 2019
Jung Chang is one of the most celebrated chroniclers of modern China. Her life spotlights the threat that writing still holds for the country’s rulers.
Source: CBS
Oct 26, 2019
"I think what people don't understand about Prohibition are the very serious and long-lasting legacies of the law."
Source: NPR
Oct 24, 2019
"It's a stunning moment in Thai history."
Source: The New Republic
Oct 24, 2019
The publication of Kevin M. Levin’s excellent book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, is nothing less than a declaration of war.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Oct 24, 2019
During the early 1960s — an intense period of racial strife in the South — the Millers were arrested and jailed after protesting segregation at the lunch counter of a railroad station in Houston.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 24, 2019
In “Cabinets of Curiosities,” Patrick Mauriès tells the history of some truly awesome collectors.
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 24, 2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young.
Source: Black Perspectives
Oct 23, 2019
by Ida E. Jones
In Rosalyn Terborg-Penn direct confrontation with the sexism of some African American male scholars and racism of some white women scholars, she co-founded the Association of Black Women Historians.
Source: AP
Oct 22, 2019
Historian Anthony Pitch's quest for the truth about a gruesome mob lynching of two black couples is prompting a U.S. appeals court to consider whether federal judges can order grand jury records unsealed in decades-old cases with historical significance.
Source: NY Times
Oct 22, 2019
A former journalist, she spent nearly 50 years producing an acclaimed six-volume work on the Fourth Republic. Her own life held plenty of drama of its own.
