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: The New Yorker
Jun 2, 2022
American cyclists and pedestrians are the victims of a century-long political campaign to reorganize public space around the needs of drivers, according to historian Peter Norton. Activists including the families of traffic victims are fighting to change that.
Source: N + 1
Jun 1, 2022
by Erik Baker
New books wrestle with the rise and collapse of the 1960s New Left and the gulf between its aspirations and achievements, and assess whether 1960s radical intellectuals are responsible for present-day neoliberalism.
Source: Dissent
Jun 1, 2022
A new book looks at a planned Black-led city in North Carolina as a missed opportunity for establishing political and economic power; a left critic says the project proceeded from bad premises that liberation could be achieved through capitalism.
Source: The Atlantic
May 31, 2022
The Senator says that large-scale student debt relief would leave in place the dysfunctional features of higher education. Find out what he, presumably in a position to do something, thinks would work better.
Source: KCUR
May 31, 2022
The lead industry's trade association encouraged the public to think of lead poisoning as a problem affecting the urban poor as a strategy to stop regulation of their hazardous product, argues historian Gerald Markowitz.
Source: Salon
May 31, 2022
by Kathryn Gin Lum
Under the banner of "classical education" and civics, the far right is funding a growing number of academic centers to advance conservative views. Historians Michael Butler, Nancy MacLean and Bethany Moreton comment.
Source: Public Books
May 30, 2022
The author of a popular and rigorous history of modern conservatism discusses the influence of the prolific public intellectual on his research and writing.
Source: The New Republic
May 30, 2022
by Audrey Clare Farley
White evangelicals need to come to grips with the way that institutional racism gives rise to sexual abuse.
Source: Vox
May 27, 2022
Despite its characterization as liberal and cosmopolitan, the film industry has eagerly embraced the military in the pursuit of box office.
Source: NPR
May 27, 2022
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Russian history professor Sergey Radchenko of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, about the state of the Russian economy after three months of war.
Source: The Nation
May 24, 2022
"In terms of repression and resistance, it takes people and communities time to understand what is happening to them."
Source: Washington Post
May 24, 2022
by Gillian Brockell
When the District abolished slavery, it compensated more than 900 former enslavers for the emancipation of more than 3,000 people. The formerly enslaved got nothing.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio
May 24, 2022
Stephen Berrey discusses the way that violent segregation took place outside the South in the 1890s and early 1900s.
Source: Politico
May 23, 2022
Politico's media columnist argues that the paper's outsize role in the culture is driving the anger of historians whose uncredited work was foundational to the paper's recent series on Haiti's debt payments to France.
Source: Business Insider
May 22, 2022
Cornell's Ilene DeVault says the organization of Amazon's Staten Island warehouse is more important that unionization at Starbucks for the reversal of the decades-long attack on organized labor in the US.
Source: The Guardian
May 22, 2022
What is the experience of Native American students at one of the few surviving government-run indigenous residential schools in the United States?
Source: Washington Post
May 20, 2022
by Nicole Hemmer
The book by two political reporters portrays the dire contrast between a Republican Party willing to do anything to hold power between November 2020 and January 2021 and a Democratic Party enmeshed in business-as-usual.
Source: Boston Review
May 19, 2022
Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and survivor/activist David Hogg discuss whether American politicians will ever confront the horrific combination of racism and guns.
Source: Los Angeles Times
May 18, 2022
John Mack Faragher's new book examines the rise of America's diversity and prosperity – and the conflicts attendant on both – in California.
Source: American Historical Association
May 18, 2022
Leonard Moore, Katharina Matro, Julia Brookins, Kathleen Hilliard, James Grossman, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and James Sweet describe how their ability to examine the past honestly and students' freedom to learn support democracy.
