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: Public Seminar
Jul 25, 2022
Michael Hattem discusses his book which argues that the creation of a particularly American historical memory was a nation-building project that began from the first moments of independence.
Source: Newsweek
Jul 23, 2022
Domestic politicians warning of the danger Russia faces from the stalled Ukraine war are partly trying to rally nationalistic fervor and partly positioning themselves for a possible struggle for power in the event that Putin loses control.
Source: WDET
Jul 22, 2022
Karen Marrero of Wayne State University discusses how oral traditions have kept indigenous histories alive even as many physical markers of that history have been destroyed.
Source: Texas Standard
Jul 22, 2022
Louis Dean Valencia realized during the pandemic that icebreaking conversations with students about pop music opened up many avenues for discussing historical subjects including the politics of celebrity.
Source: We've Got Issues Podcast
Jul 22, 2022
Historian Thomas Zimmer tells Joshua Holland that there is a consensus among experts that American democracy is teetering on the brink of collapse -- but there is a reason for hope.
Source: KERA
Jul 21, 2022
Kidd's new book examines the ways that slavery and religion complicate the moral picture of the founder.
Source: CNN
Jul 21, 2022
Historian Thomas Zimmer says that the wave of accusations that drag performers are "grooming" children for sexual abuse is part of a broader reactionary project that seeks to reinforce multiple rigid social hierarchies and put straight white men at the top.
Source: New York Review of Books
Jul 21, 2022
by Robert Kuttner
Gary Gerstle's new history aims to define the political order that began under Jimmy Carter and resulted in the overturning of New Deal liberalism for the empty promises of a market society, with the power of the state insulating capitalism from democracy.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jul 20, 2022
Higher ed historian Davarian Baldwin says that Fairfield University's plan to develop a low-cost Associates Degree college will be an incomplete solution to the problems of uneven development in Bridgeport, Connecticut (a problem that is partly fueled by the operation of private universities).
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
Jul 20, 2022
by Lauren Goldenberg
Isaac Butler has recently published an acclaimed book on the rise of the method school of acting and its origins with Konstantin Stanislavski's "system" of training the inner creative life of actors.
Source: San Francisco Examiner
Jul 19, 2022
“What I expect Stanford to do, as I always expected, is that they’ll ignore it,” says Richard White, whose new book argues that the university's president David Starr Jordan covered up murder and spread the lie that founder Jane Stanford died of natural causes in order to preserve her bequest.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 19, 2022
That initiative, led by Howard University’s Sterling Brown, included a plan to interview thousands of formerly enslaved people across the South before they died.
Source: Public Books
Jul 19, 2022
Robert Lee of Cambridge University discusses his work documenting the treaty-like arrangements by which universities appropriated indigenous lands to build their endowments, an understudied aspect of the land-grant university system.
Source: Religion News Service
Jul 18, 2022
Since the early 1990s ascendancy of the Christian Right, the movement has drawn on David Barton's assertion that the separation of church and state is bogus. A new generation of conservatives is embracing this line on the campaign trail today.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
Jul 15, 2022
by Johann N. Neem
In "This Earthly Frame," Sehat examines the way that activists in the 20th Century pushed the nation from an implicit privileging of Protestant Christianity toward a posture of "negative secularism" that separated the functions of government from doctrinal belief, and the transience of that victory.
Source: New Books Network
Jul 12, 2022
A fateful decision by American slaveowners shaped the landscape of the south: working to maximize the productivity of each enslaved laborer, instead of safeguarding the long-term productiveness of the land.
Source: OAH
Jul 6, 2022
"We expect that historians will continue to correct the Court’s misinterpretation about the history of legalized abortion in the US in their own research, teaching, and public speaking, while also addressing the multifaceted dilemmas presented by this decision."
Source: The Root
Jul 6, 2022
Robert Cassanello is challenging Florida's "Stop WOKE" Act, contending it makes it illegal for him to teach his courses on civil rights history and Reconstruction.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 5, 2022
"Wherever our current catastrophe is headed, it has been good to Adam Tooze, he tells me with some bewilderment."
Source: Slate
Jul 4, 2022
The concept of heathenism has always served to distinguish Americans as a group deserving of their good fortune and apart from others in need of transformation, either by persuasion or by violence.
