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: Nursing Clio
Jun 30, 2022
This is a selection from an in-progress project to develop a collectively-sourced syllabus for the history of reproduction and reproductive rights and freedom.
Source: Legal History Blog
Jun 30, 2022
This is a note identifying the legal history sources cited in both Elena Kagan's dissent and Neil Gorsuch's concurrence in the court's ruling limiting the power of the EPA to limit emissions.
Source: Dissent
Jun 27, 2022
While the media pays significant attention to the influence of social media platforms, the structure of the internet is dicated by the privatization of the physical architecture of the internet since the 1990s.
Source: Current
Jun 27, 2022
A panel of Evangelical scholars considers the impact of the end of the Roe v. Wade era.
Source: The Baffler
Jun 27, 2022
Presented with the manifest failure of a peaceful global liberal order after the end of the Cold War, Fukuyama now simply argues that people have failed classical liberalism.
Source: Politico
Jun 26, 2022
by Joshua Zeitz
"The functional problem with originalism is that it requires a very, very firm grasp of history — a grasp that none of the nine justices, and certainly few of their 20-something law clerks, freshly minted from J.D. programs, possess."
Source: CNBC
Jun 26, 2022
Josh Lauer has researched a book on the history of credit reporting, which shows that for much of the history of personal credit decisions were subjective and decentralized.
Source: Politico
Jun 25, 2022
Historians Keisha Blain, Daniel K. Williams, John Fea, Leslie Reagan and Randall Balmer are among the scholars asked to explain how the Dobbs decision will remake American life for women, the poor, minorities, and those who might experience cultural conflict.
Source: National Geographic
Jun 24, 2022
Historians like Jules Gill-Peterson argues that the history of transgender people is often hiding in plain sight, and contains as many moments of joy as of discrimination or misunderstanding.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 23, 2022
Isaac Chotiner interviews law professor and legal historian Adam Winkler on the selective use of history in the New York state gun rights decision.
Source: NPR
Jun 23, 2022
Law professor Mary Ziegler explains how the anti-abortion movement upended the GOP establishment and helped push the courts to the right. Her new book is Dollars for Life.
Source: Governing
Jun 16, 2022
The historian argues that the "creative class" explanation for urban resurgence focuses on affluent white professionals while ignoring the role of Latino immigrants in revitalizing urban communities.
Source: MSNBC
Jun 15, 2022
Kathleen Belew, an expert on white nationalist paramilitary groups, talks with Rachel Maddow about why individual incidents with racist extremist groups should be seen as part of a single, larger groundswell.
Jun 15, 2022
by Alexandra Minna Stern
The alt-right groups represented at the Capitol on January 6 drew organizing power from online communities where grievance politics around race and gender flourished. Key features were heavy doses of irony that gave deniability to violent rhetoric and extreme misogyny.
Source: The New Republic
Jun 15, 2022
by Ed Burmila
"Gerstle makes an all but indisputable case that neoliberalism has had its lamentable time in the sun. The question that remains is: What comes next? As things stand at present, you’re probably not going to like it."
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 15, 2022
For decades, the political idea that social services aimed at supporting parents and children constitute a governmental intrusion on the family has been used to thwart the kinds of supports that parents and children in the rest of the industrial world enjoy.
Source: CNN
Jun 15, 2022
The arrest of neonazis in Idaho who planned an attack on a Pride event echoes a 1937 raid on a Miami gay nightclub by the KKK, says historian Julio Capo, Jr.
Source: Democracy Now!
Jun 15, 2022
Garrett Graff, author of "Watergate: A New History" argues that both January 6 and Watergate were the logical culminations of the broader politics of the Trump and Nixon administrations and the movements that sustained them.
Source: Reason
Jun 14, 2022
A researcher argues that passages from other published works are closely reproduced in the thesis.
Source: The Nation
Jun 13, 2022
by Malcolm Harris
From LSD to the computer revolution, Stewart Brand appeared in some way in the biggest cultural trends to emerge from California in the late 20th century. A new authorized biography tells a version of his story, but is it the whole story?
