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: New York Times
Oct 4, 2019
by Emily Gould
Thomas J. Campanella, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, traces the borough’s vibrant past and comments on the hipster heyday happening there now.
Source: Black Perspectives
Oct 2, 2019
by Aimee Loiselle
Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Source: The New York Times
Oct 2, 2019
by The Associated Press
As Brexit looms, one of Germany’s main history museums is examining Germans’ views of the British, complete with a countdown clock that may be reset if Britain’s departure from the European Union is delayed.
Source: National Security Archive
Oct 2, 2019
by Tom Blanton
Government agrees to preserve White House records.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 30, 2019
Featuring historians Kevin M. Levin, Kevin M. Kruze, Kevin Gannon, Adam Rothman, and David M. Perry.
Source: African American Intellectual History Society
Sep 30, 2019
by Keisha N. Blain
AAIHS Presdient Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate Professor of History at Temple University, about his new book.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Sep 30, 2019
The Huntington hosts an exhibition as surprising, intriguing and, well, frenetic as the year 1919.
Source: Crosscut
Sep 30, 2019
An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.
Source: The New York Times
Sep 29, 2019
by Talya Zax
With nationalism and anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, Longerich’s “Hitler: A Biography” and Simms’s “Hitler: A Global Biography” look at the Nazi leader’s march to power.
Source: NPR
Sep 29, 2019
Ramachandra Guha, a historian of modern India, spoke with NPR at his home in Bengaluru, India, in May.
Source: The New York Times
Sep 25, 2019
by Francine Klagsbrun
Tom Segev studies and compares the life and associated policies of Israel’s very first Prime Minister in A STATE AT ANY COST: The Life of David Ben-Gurion.
Source: The National Archives
Sep 25, 2019
by James Worsham
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero spoke with Gorsuch in a conversation about his new book.
Source: Fast Company
Sep 25, 2019
Every year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation gives out a set of no-strings-attached, $625,000 fellowships to people working in fields from art to science to legal research.
Source: City Lab
Sep 24, 2019
Twenty sites across the United States have been selected to participate in the 2019 competition for a piece of a $2 million grant.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Sep 23, 2019
by Ryan P. Smith
Bunch’s new memoir details the tireless work it took to build NMAAHC and offers insights into his priorities as Smithsonian Secretary.
Source: Jewish Currents
Sep 23, 2019
by Judith Butler
"A lack of historical analysis...afflicts this impassioned book."
Source: The New York Times
Sep 22, 2019
by Alexandra Alter
Naomi Wolf’s book “Outrages” was postponed after questions emerged about her research.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
Sep 22, 2019
A new exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center, titled “The Accidental Historian,” reminds us that even in our selfie-taking modes, we may very well be valuable historians without even realizing it.
Source: New York Times
Sep 21, 2019
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.
Source: New York Times
Sep 21, 2019
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.
