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: Slate
Apr 23, 2019
by Rebecca Onion
Race, and racism, were both hidden and ubiquitous in the show’s rhetoric.
Source: D.C. Policy Center
Apr 23, 2019
For the past several years, Mapping Segregation in Washington DC has been documenting the historic role of real estate developers, citizens associations (white homeowner groups), and the courts in segregating the city.
Source: NY Times
Apr 23, 2019
“The heartland myth insists that there is a stone-solid core at the center of the nation."
Source: Black Perspectives
Apr 23, 2019
by Ronald Angelo Johnson
Frederick Douglass belonged to an exclusive cohort of African American diplomats posted across the Caribbean at the end of the nineteenth century.
Source: AP
Apr 22, 2019
Rise Up Detroit is scheduled to officially launch with a kickoff event May 14 at Wayne State’s David Adamany Undergraduate Library. The program is expected to include a discussion with civil rights veterans and experts.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 22, 2019
"By removing the GRE from our admissions form, we will be able to focus more on the qualitative assessments that better identify the most promising applicants: writing samples, personal statements, recommendations and the student’s complete record of course work and grades."
Source: Slate
Apr 22, 2019
Why does the exhaustive biographer overlook Lyndon Johnson’s virulent misogyny?
Source: The Guardian
Apr 22, 2019
More than 2 million remembrance tourists expected to join veterans and world leaders for commemorations.
Source: WWD
Apr 21, 2019
Rose, who wrote "For All the Tea in China" in 2011, was inspired by her personal connections to the military for "D-Day Girls."
Source: Time
Apr 18, 2019
Featuring Heather Cox Richardson, Joanne B. Freeman, Manisha Sinha, Douglas Brinkley, Robert Dallek, Barbara A. Perry, and Julian E. Zelizer.
Source: The Chronicle Review
Apr 18, 2019
Featuring short essays by historians Keisha N. Blain, Marcia Chatelain, Gerald Early, Stefan M. Bradley, and Noliwe M. Rook.
Source: Black Perspectives
Apr 17, 2019
by J.T. Roane
As the Director of African American History at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, she is responsible for engaging local and national audiences in conversations about slavery and its legacies.
Source: UCONN
Apr 17, 2019
Details about the conference and livestream.
Source: Process History
Apr 16, 2019
by Gale Kenny
The Women’s March and related activism are similar to the 20th century political organizing of the United Council of Church Women.
Source: AHA Perspectives
Apr 15, 2019
by John R. McNeill
Even if in-person interviews yield more useful information than videoconferencing, the economic argument for abandoning the tradition is hard to resist.
Source: NY Times
Apr 15, 2019
Professor Davis wrote or edited 16 books, but paramount were the three that examined the moral challenges and contradictions of slavery and their centrality in American and Atlantic history.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Apr 15, 2019
"Today everybody believes fast is good. Sometimes slow is good."
Source: WGBH
Apr 13, 2019
The case study method was popularized at Harvard Business School to help graduate business students understand how captains of industry made critical decisions.
Source: New Yorker
Apr 13, 2019
by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore on the "Confessions of a Presidential Candidate."
Source: New York Magazine
Apr 13, 2019
The new conspiracism is more than capable of spreading on its own, but it doesn’t help that even some political elites who surely know better haven’t exactly been forthright in debunking conspiracy theories lately.
