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: National Geographic
May 17, 2022
Many scholars, including Carla Spivack and Lauren MacIvor Thompson have challenged Samuel Alito's historical research and argue that for much of American history abortion was neither outlawed nor particularly controversial.
Source: KVUE
May 17, 2022
A fragment discovered at the Las Pinturas pyramid site in San Bartolo, Guatemala connects the ancient site to a calendar system used by indigenous Mayan people today.
Source: Boston Review
May 17, 2022
by Marco Ramos
A historian of mental health reviews two new books and concludes that pharmaceutical and neurological approaches to mental health have failed and it's time to turn the lens onto society.
Source: Mellon Foundation
May 17, 2022
Historians Erika Lee and Mae Ngai discuss the history of Chinese Americans in the context of Asian American history and American multiculturalism with Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander on May 19.
Source: Black Perspectives
May 17, 2022
by Robert Greene II
"Black Americans and other marginalized groups in America and around the world have found ways to resist this reprehensible violence. We will all continue to do so. For now, AAIHS wishes to express its condolences to those harmed by the tragedy in Buffalo."
Source: Washington Post
May 16, 2022
“The personal is historical,” the blog’s authors declare — and its lineup of historians and authors proves that point again and again.
Source: Harvard Gazette
May 16, 2022
Professor Philip Deloria praised the repatriation of the artifacts as a "rebalancing" of accounts between the tribe and the university.
Source: NPR
May 16, 2022
"A man accused of killing 10 people in Buffalo, New York was allegedly motivated by a racist doctrine known as 'replacement theory.' It's just a new name for an old set of racial hatreds, Kathleen Belew told NPR."
Source: The Baffler
May 16, 2022
by Adewale Maja-Pearce
Self-serving stories of the civilizing mission of British Christianity paper over the brutality of colonialism.
Source: The New Republic
May 16, 2022
A reviewer calls a new book on the 1990s a sobering look at the effects of tying social policy to the market.
Source: The Nation
May 15, 2022
The roots of IMF and World Bank interference in the political and economic affairs of developing nations are found in the internationalism that emerged after the first world war, and its paternalist and racist worldview.
Source: The New Yorker
May 15, 2022
"The idea is simply that many different kinds of social change are connected to a plot by a cabal of élites to eradicate the white race, which people in this movement believe is their nation."
Source: NPR
May 13, 2022
Leslie Reagan explains that there's more to the history of abortion rights than the laws cited by Samuel Alito criminalizing the procedure.
Source: NPR
May 8, 2022
Kristin Kobes Du Mez discusses how Evangelical Christians came to drive the abortion debate in the US in the context of a backlash against feminism and a growing infrastructure of conservative voter mobilization.
Source: The Baffler
May 4, 2022
by Trevor Jackson
Historian Trevor Jackson reviews Brett Christophers's book on rent, which places the power of the rentier class at the center of the inequality and dysfunction of modern capital and brings Marx's original investigations into the 21st century.
Source: NPR
May 4, 2022
The professionalization of medicine in the 19th century empowered male doctors to usurp the personal judgment of pregnant women about when "quickening" of a fetus had taken place, and set in motion growing efforts to restrict abortion.
Source: PEN America
May 4, 2022
This event looks at historical moments where strident expressions of political thought, widely perceived to be anti-democratic in their own place and time, provoked new strictures.
Source: The Editorial Board
May 4, 2022
Faced with the toll of injury and death from their congregants desperately seeking illegal abortions, individual priests, ministers and rabbis in significant numbers were an unlikely but important source of help in obtaining safe abortion before Roe.
Source: Crooked Media
May 2, 2022
Former Barack Obama Communications Director and Pod Save America host Dan Pfeiffer is joined by Professor of History at Princeton University Kevin Kruse to break down the Most Famous Political Ads of All Time.
Source: America
May 2, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams offers a history of Black nuns at a time when the American church is grappling with its history of discrimination and exclusion.
