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: Politico
Mar 8, 2019
The historians were featured alongside Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and more.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 8, 2019
Ideally the archive won't just serve the institution, but will face outward, toward the greater community.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 7, 2019
In her research and teaching, she pored over the records left by women who received little if any public attention during their lives but whose diaries, letters and other writings vividly revealed the eras in which they lived.
Source: Forbes
Mar 7, 2019
“To paraphrase Harriett Tubman,” she says, “you want change in your life, don't be afraid to trouble the waters.”
Source: Inside Higher Education
Mar 6, 2019
Professor at university Dinesh D'Souza says "nobody's heard of" instructs him on the mission of smaller, access-oriented private institutions.
Source: NPR
Mar 6, 2019
Modern Indigenous American history is a history of resistance.
Source: Them
Mar 5, 2019
by Hugh Ryan
From a gay Nazi spy sex scandal to its WWII antifascist queer intelligentsia scene, a new book reveals that Brooklyn has always been a surprisingly queer haven.
Source: New Yorker
Mar 5, 2019
What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Mar 4, 2019
New video shows exactly what was said during a heated discussion at the annual gathering of classicists in January. Does it change anything?
Source: The Guardian
Mar 4, 2019
Only by engaging with ‘real ugliness’ can healing begin, Liza Dale-Hallett says.
Source: Black Perspectives
Mar 4, 2019
Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history published by an AAIHS member in 2018.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Mar 4, 2019
Before hot Lincoln, there was ripped Washington, nude Napoleon and muscular ancient Greek sculptures
Source: The Activist History Review
Mar 4, 2019
by Bill Horne
"Their work shows a way in which we might rethink history 'from below,' not just as academic research on marginalized groups, but as scholarship written by non-scholars, activists, and members of disenfranchised communities."
Source: New York Times
Mar 1, 2019
For more than 20 years Mr. Li was deputy director and then director of the Institute of History, part of the Chinese Academy of Social Science — positions of unusual influence.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
Mar 1, 2019
Read articles about the trailblazers, scroll through timelines of women’s achievements, view videos, test your knowledge in quizzes, and discover the key issues.
Source: New York Times
Mar 1, 2019
Rutger Bregman is part of a wider wave of young thinkers who will not accept piecemeal technocratic responses to the economic and ecological challenges of our age.
Source: NY Times
Feb 26, 2019
Her New Book Speaks Plainly About the Large Role White Women Played in Perpetuating Slavery.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 26, 2019
In addition to writing two books on jazz history, Mr. Gitler helped critic Leonard Feather compile the comprehensive “The Encyclopedia of Jazz,” first published in 1960.
Source: Forbes
Feb 26, 2019
His most depressing observation is that we may be stuck in a downward spiral.
Source: Patheos
Feb 26, 2019
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