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: Minnesota Public Radio
Feb 13, 2019
Thomas Jefferson said the press had become "servile to the government," Nickerson says, and newspapers were used as a vehicle for political organizing and advocacy.
Source: The Atlantic
Feb 12, 2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
"Here’s my own anti-racist reading list for Northam and my fellow Americans who are truly awakening after their own blackface moment. It is for people realizing they were taught by their relatives and friends and the media how to be racist."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Feb 12, 2019
American Historical Association says hiring committees shouldn't ask for letters of recommendation until candidates pass a first look.
Source: Black Perspectives
Feb 12, 2019
Featuring articles from Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Kim Gallon, and Fred Carroll.
Source: Jezebel
Feb 11, 2019
"It had such a broad and long-lasting impact on American politics that it’s just impossible to overstate."
Source: Columbia Journalism Review
Feb 11, 2019
"For reporters from underrepresented communities—reporters of color, queer and transgender reporters, disabled reporters, poor reporters—taking a neutral stance on their own humanity isn’t an option."
Source: Washington Post
Feb 11, 2019
Featuring Annette Gordon-Reed, Eric Foner, Caroline Janney, Grace Hale, Stephanie Smallwood, Sarah Milov and many others!
Source: BBC
Feb 11, 2019
Arguments over the whole concept of the museum, and the content of the exhibitions and educational centre which will operate there, have long delayed the opening.
Source: NPR
Feb 10, 2019
Massachusetts students and their teacher are identifying the people buried in nameless graves at a cemetery associated with a now-closed state school for disabled people.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 8, 2019
by Eric Foner
'“Separate' reminds us that our history is not simply a narrative of greater and greater freedom."
Source: Mother Jones
Feb 8, 2019
Professor Peter Wallenstein explains how the present mess in Virginia connects to the state’s past.
Source: Duke Today
Feb 6, 2019
Across three decades of scholarship, Scott helped usher in the field of women's history.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Feb 4, 2019
The popular and pious wife to President James Polk had little use for the nascent suffrage movement
Source: USA Today
Feb 4, 2019
Ehrenreich made a comment about fellow author Marie Kondo that quickly went viral.
Source: AP
Feb 2, 2019
The 4-part documentary will air on PBS starting April 9th.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 2, 2019
National Gallery’s 1450 portrait by Rogier van der Weyden was created in the 1960s by Eric Hebborn, says art historian.
Source: NY Times
Jan 31, 2019
He had spent most of his academic career at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Source: Time
Jan 31, 2019
The official theme of Black History Month 2019, “Black Migrations,” is a fitting one: not only is migration one of today’s most pressing political issues, but it’s also a key part of the annual observance’s own history.
Source: NPR
Jan 31, 2019
"We want to bring history to life and make it feel urgent," said co-host Rund Abdelfatah.
Source: New Yorker
Jan 31, 2019
Rosenfeld discusses whether it is healthy for a democratic society to debate issues like evolution and global warming, why people distrust experts, and whether public fact-checking is a good solution to the problem of fake news.
