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: Hyperallergic
Aug 21, 2019
“If Sojourner Truth is added,” the letter reads, “it could obscure the substantial differences between white and black suffrage activists, and would be misleading.”
Source: Roll Call
Aug 21, 2019
Holt discusses duels, bathtubs and other Senate mysteries.
Source: American Association for State and Local History
Aug 21, 2019
by Benjamin Filene
Three museums in Stockholm demonstrate how can historians “pull back the curtain” and reveal the process of history-making in action.
Source: Harvard Magazine
Aug 20, 2019
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
Source: The Conversation
Aug 19, 2019
by Ian Milligan
Our society’s historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow.
Source: Vox
Aug 19, 2019
The author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South explains why white women were not bystanders to slavery.
Source: NY Times
Aug 19, 2019
She collaborated with her husband, Harvey, on “It Happened in the Catskills” and other histories told in the voices of the people who were there.
Source: AP
Aug 17, 2019
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has received more than $400,000 in grants for a project that aims to publish every document written by the nation's 16th president.
Source: The New Republic
Aug 16, 2019
Who wrote women out of Civil War history?
Source: The Athletic
Aug 14, 2019
When a talented Princeton baseball player named Mike Ford needed an adviser for his senior thesis, Wilentz thought it could be a match.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 14, 2019
Cuccinelli’s off-the-cuff edit befuddled and concerned immigration historians who saw his comments as a distortion of one of the nation’s most symbolic ideals.
Source: Tablet
Aug 14, 2019
A review of Sean Wilentz's No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Aug 12, 2019
Segregation is not mentioned in a nine-minute video about the institution’s 125-year history, posted last week on YouTube.
Source: New Yorker
Aug 12, 2019
by Kalefa Sanneh
In “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description.
Source: Tom Dispatch
Aug 11, 2019
by Tom Engelhardt
How Hollywood created a spectacle of slaughter at the movies in which colonial and imperial history was flipped on its head.
Source: Chris Riback's Conversations
Aug 9, 2019
Chris Riback in conversation with Tim Alberta and Philip Mudd.
Source: NY Times
Aug 7, 2019
Part reference librarian, part gossip columnist, the hotel historian has become an increasingly popular figure in high-end hotels or inns with actual history.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Aug 6, 2019
by Jonathan Rose
A new biography presents him not as a clockwork economic determinist but rather as a flexible analyst of capitalism.
Source: Huffington Post
Aug 6, 2019
Trump is “a manifestation of the ugliness that’s in us,” Princeton’s Eddie Glaude Jr. told MSNBC.
Source: New York Times
Aug 6, 2019
In 2016, he was a surprise National Book Award winner for a sweeping history of ever-mutating American racism. Now, he’s back with a new book that outlines how to fight it.
