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: CNN
Mar 26, 2019
She warned that after Brexit, England could go back to the way it was in the 15th Century.
Source: Black Perspectives
Mar 25, 2019
Dr. Rose’s book aims to fill an important gap in the literature on Martin Luther King Jr. by exploring King’s notions of political service.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Mar 25, 2019
For Turn-of-the-Century African-Americans, the Camera Was a Tool for Empowerment
Source: Labor and Working Class History Association
Mar 25, 2019
Helg describes what examining self-liberation from a continental perspective—beyond the confines of a particular country—teaches us about slavery and liberation.
Source: Daily Beast
Mar 23, 2019
A new book argues Trump is the modern-day equivalent of a gun-toting cowboy riding into town to help inept lawmen and rescue damsels in distress.
Source: UVAToday
Mar 22, 2019
“Joe was instrumental in establishing non-Western fields in the department and in fostering the study of African history internationally."
Source: Washington Post
Mar 22, 2019
For Women’s History Month, honoring the sisters in the City of Brotherly Love.
Source: NPR Codeswitch
Mar 21, 2019
50 years ago, studying the history and culture of any people who were not white and Western was considered radical.
Source: Labor and Working Class History Association
Mar 20, 2019
by Lara Vapnek
For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.
Source: Times Literary Supplement
Mar 19, 2019
by Manisha Sinha
Manisha Sinha on the long and eventful life of Frederick Douglass.
Source: The Red and Black
Mar 19, 2019
Luxenberg is developing a course on the history of Freemasonry, focusing on Freemasons in Georgia and the Athens area.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 18, 2019
For more than two decades, one small publisher far from New York has been quietly rescuing remnants of history from the flames of oblivion.
Source: History Extra
Mar 18, 2019
Seven leading historians assess whether we are witnessing the dawn of a new era of extremism.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 17, 2019
A new exhibition of a gigantic painting uses historical fact to dispel Lost Cause mythology.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 13, 2019
“Medgar and Myrlie Evers are heroes whose contributions to the advancement of civil rights in Mississippi and our nation cannot be overstated,” U.S. Sen Roger Wicker said in a statement.
Source: New York Times
Mar 13, 2019
The historian Tran Duc Anh Son said that Vietnam has irrefutable claims to islands in the South China Sea that China claims as its own.
Source: CSU History Department
Mar 13, 2019
Information on a live online history lecture. Watch on March 13th!
Source: New York Times
Mar 12, 2019
A celebrated raconteur, Mr. Richardson was described by W magazine as “the man all New York wants to sit beside at dinner."
Source: New York Times
Mar 12, 2019
The exhibition focuses on Churchill’s journey, but it builds context through immersive galleries of World War I trenches, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the London Blitz.
Source: Humanities Indicators
Mar 11, 2019
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