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: Perspectives on History
Sep 29, 2022
by James Grossman
By merging the National History Center with the AHA, both organizations hope to alleviate the burdens of cost and time associated with running separate organizations and enable the Center to diffuse historical knowledge through scholarship, writing and teaching.
Source: Gilder Lehrman Institute
Sep 29, 2022
“I enjoy witnessing students see themselves represented in their nation’s history. Through learning about groups and communities they identify with, they become passionate learners and understand the importance of learning history.”
Source: Washington Post
Sep 28, 2022
Scholar of the right Joshua Tait discusses the prospects of JD Vance and Blake Masters with Post columnist Greg Sargent. Can they put a moderate face on full-blown Trumpism?
Source: Washington Post
Sep 26, 2022
For most people, attempting to hijack a presidential election and killing the first Treasury Secretary in a duel would be capstones to a career of infamy. Not Aaron Burr.
Source: Civil Eats
Sep 26, 2022
The scholar discusses researching school lunch policies in the U.S., U.K., and Australia – and in his own household—and how nutrition policy relates to inequality, health, and learning.
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Sep 26, 2022
Raphael Rogers of Clark University notes that even in Massachusetts there are multiple possible "land mines" that social studies teachers need to navigate in lessons dealing with slavery.
Source: KERA
Sep 26, 2022
Historians concur that while the task of condensing the state's history into a dozen pages is a difficult task, the choices made by the state commission aim at preserving patriotic myths favored by the right.
Source: WBUR
Sep 26, 2022
Despite the violence and brutality of the subject matter, historian Keisha Blain calls the upcoming Emmett Till film essential viewing in a time when it can't be assumed that everyone knows the story.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 25, 2022
A labor agency in Mississippi experimented with a creative, if evil, solution to the problem of Black demands for labor rights at the turn of the 20th century: trick Italian farmers to sign contracts that shackled them with debt to their employers.
Source: News Talk
Sep 25, 2022
Patrick Geoghegan talks all things Cromwell with a panel of historians.
Source: NPR
Sep 25, 2022
Jonathan Gienapp says that the Framers made deliberate choices to make the Constitution a bulwark against what they saw as the danger of broad-based democracy.
Source: The New Republic
Sep 23, 2022
Historians Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams have edited a new collection of essays putting the pandemic in historical perspective, with contributors showing how the pandemic robbed us of both life and time.
Source: NPR
Sep 21, 2022
Putin's cautious declaration of a partial mobilization reflects his increasingly desperate military situation and the growing unpopularity of the Ukraine war in Russia.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 21, 2022
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò argues that the rhetoric of diversity has allowed an "elite capture" of racial justice movements that strips those movements of the impulse to transform society. Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews his new book of essays.
Source: New York Times
Sep 20, 2022
Pekka Hamalainen describes a four-centuries long continental war between settlers and indigenous Americans during which the indigenous frequently won. Critics, including Native historians, contend he doesn't reckon with the ultimate consolidation of conquest.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 20, 2022
Sports have long served as a means of inculcating the values of the dominant groups in American society, and sometimes to challenge them. The first sports-related exhibition at the National Archives Museum curates documents and artifacts to tell the story.
Source: Christianity Today
Sep 20, 2022
by Paul Emory Putz
A reviewer notes that a new book by a leading interpreter of American evangelical culture may raise important awareness about the wonderment and faith inherent in sports fandom, but leaves out some discussion of how sports support an increasingly masculinist Christianity.
Source: New York Review of Books
Sep 17, 2022
"I’m always interested in the connections between past and present. The questions that interest me historically tend to come out of the moment I’m living in."
Source: TIME
Sep 17, 2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Historians involved with the PBS project wrestle with the question of whether the United States could reasonably have done more to offer asylum to Europe's Jews or to stop their mass-scale murder.
Source: War on the Rocks
Sep 16, 2022
Christopher McKnight Nichols, Raymond Haberski, Jr., and Emily Conroy-Krutz join host Jeremi Suri of the University of Texas, Austin to discuss what ideology is, and explore the ways in which it has shaped, and continues to shape, America’s role in the world.
