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: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jun 7, 2019
Fang Zhou’s comments are the latest made by faculty members and students at Georgia’s public colleges and universities to come under fire.
Source: Time
Jun 6, 2019
Demand for “counter-textbooks” has been fueled by factors including student desire for more diverse stories and requirements like the California law that now mandates LGBT-inclusive social-studies curriculums.
Source: The Guardian
Jun 6, 2019
Teachers trying to educate about fascism hit by service’s new policy on hate speech.
Source: WHYY
Jun 5, 2019
Marc Stein, a professor at San Francisco State University, explains why these demonstrations are a little-known piece of LGBTQ history and how they reflected a larger cultural shift in the U.S.
Source: The American Interest
Jun 5, 2019
by Allis Radosh
Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet by D.H. Dilbeck, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur, and Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight all offer a different interpretation of Douglass.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 1, 2019
He’s just published a book called “Working.” It’s a gift, a collection of interviews and essays that talk about the craft of what he does.
Source: WHYY
Jun 1, 2019
Once in Philadelphia, the David Library will become the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society.
Source: Salon
May 31, 2019
“Linking the pro-choice movement to racism . . . He’s a bad man,” Georgia State law professor Eric Segall says
Source: The Guardian
May 30, 2019
Angry reaction to story of victims’ lives is extraordinary, says Rubenhold
Source: New York Times
May 29, 2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.
Source: NPR
May 28, 2019
Tony Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historical nonfiction writer best known for the bestselling chronicle of Civil War re-enactors Confederates in the Attic, has died at age 60.
Source: Washington Post
May 28, 2019
Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will become the next secretary of the Smithsonian.
Source: AP
May 27, 2019
Morris was a polished prose stylist whose career took off with the success of his first book, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. But what cemented his legacy was “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.”
Source: NPR
May 26, 2019
Travis Rupp has traveled the world in search of clues as to how ancient civilizations made and consumed beer. With Avery Brewing Co., he has concocted eight of them in a series called "Ales of Antiquity."
Source: Daily Beast
May 26, 2019
by Barry Strauss
Americans are notoriously ignorant of history, even their own, and while there’s nothing new about this indifference, the consequences are profound.
Source: The Guardian
May 25, 2019
At Hay festival, Wolf restated belief that John Addington Symonds was deeply affected by laws against homosexuality.
Source: Washington Post
May 24, 2019
by John Fabian Witt
Brenda Wineapple’s timely story suggests, almost despite itself, that impeaching presidents and dreaming of justice are no substitutes for the work of doing justice and winning elections.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 24, 2019
A religion professor at the American University in Cairo says the university had no right to revoke his chair title after he resisted a donor's demands that he teach Islam in a preferential manner.
Source: The Guardian
May 22, 2019
This well-judged book, which centres on Western thinkers identifying positive aspects of Ottoman rule, complicates the idea of Orientalism
Source: Cornell Chronicle
May 22, 2019
“Working on this project has been one of the most rewarding activities of my professional career,” Garcia said.
