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.
Sep 13, 2017
The site features stories in the news with links to other relevant stories. In this video he explains what it's about.
Source: Smithsonian
Sep 12, 2017
by Christopher Wilson
Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.
Source: mlivecom
Sep 12, 2017
Tiya Miles’s op ed on the subject, “The South Doesn’t Own Slavery,” drew more than 500 comments in the NYT.
Source: Historians for Peace and Democracy (Press Release)
Sep 12, 2017
by Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD)
"From now on, we will be defending civil liberties, countering “alternative facts” and triumphalist narratives, and challenging militarism in its various forms." – Historians for Peace and Democracy
Source: WUFT
Sep 11, 2017
The University of Florida historian is upset that the administration is allowing Richard Spencer to speak on October 19.
Source: The Dartmouth
Sep 11, 2017
The college rebuked him without giving him a chance to clarify that he doesn’t embrace violence except as self-defense.
Source: Hartford Courant
Sep 11, 2017
“In another two years, my students are going to have absolutely no emotional connection or memory of 9/11 at all. The subject is merely going to be another history class to them." – Matthew Warshauer
Source: NYT
Sep 10, 2017
The writer and historian arrived in Afghanistan in 1962 and devoted decades of her life to preserving the country’s heritage during some of its darkest times.
Source: LA Times
Sep 8, 2017
by Mark Oppenheimer
"A small group of self-appointed vigilantes has mounted a scurrilous campaign demanding [David] Myers’ ouster, claiming without any basis, that he holds anti-Israel views."
Source: Vanity Fair
Sep 7, 2017
The list includes: A. Scott Berg, Robert Dallek, Jon Meacham, Edmund Morris, Stacy Schiff, and Garry Wills.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Sep 6, 2017
The digital humanities pioneer forges on with multiple projects, including an update to his acclaimed Valley of the Shadow project.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 6, 2017
by Christopher Petrella
Bates College’s Christopher Petrella says DACA is vulnerable not because it’s amnesty, but because it’s amnesty for Latinos.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 5, 2017
by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
By holding a mirror up to society and reflecting its aspirations and shortcomings, alternative histories can advance our national dialogue about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, says Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 5, 2017
by Max Boot
"The result of all this hate-mongering is that for the first time, I no longer feel like a “real” American.”
Source: edgeeffects.net
Sep 5, 2017
by Leah Webb-Halpern
In his new book, "God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America," he rescues the Ghost Dance from a narrative of tragedy.
Source: Black Perspectives
Sep 4, 2017
by Michael Guasco
Historian Michael Guasco says it’s a mistake, noting that by then 500,000 blacks had already crossed the Atlantic against their will.
Source: CNN
Sep 4, 2017
by Karen L. Cox
"Today, humanities scholars are roundly criticized for being irrelevant. But this is simply not true as recent events have shown."
Source: The Baltimore Sun
Sep 3, 2017
by Christine Adams
"Tyranny does not arrive in one fell swoop.”
Source: Salon
Sep 2, 2017
by Jim Sleeper
One line of attack: He’s playing into the hands of a well-funded conservative campaign to highlight examples of political correctness that distract us from real injustices.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 1, 2017
by Jefferson Cowie
We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.
