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: Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 12, 2022
A college campus can be a spectacular stage set, but it's ultimately people – professors, students, and administrators – who make the campus a dramatic space reflecting and influencing the wider society.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 12, 2022
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. is at the brink of winning the presidency in the Philippines, partly because of social media campaigns denying the atrocities committed by his father's regime.
Source: Slate
Apr 12, 2022
by Paul M. Renfro
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump is an ambitious and compelling book, one that covers a great deal of territory, but sometimes is hindered by the ongoing tendency of its subject to focus on himself, says historian Paul Renfro.
Source: WBUR
Apr 12, 2022
Julian Zelizer is the editor of a collection of essays by an all-star lineup of historians taking stock of the Trump presidency. He discusses the book and the challenges of putting the recent, contested past in perspective.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 11, 2022
by Louis Menand
Richard Cohen's "Making History: The Storytellers who Shaped the Past" puts the subjectivity of the historian at the center of how history becomes a modern society's set of myths about itself.
Source: Age of Revolutions
Apr 11, 2022
"I knew history buffs would want a narrative, and I was happy to provide one, since one of my main points is that women’s, Indigenous, military, and all the other histories transpired on the same timeline, constantly influencing each other."
Source: The New Republic
Apr 11, 2022
Recent books on "strongmen" reduce the problem of authoritarianism to the phenomenon of charismatic leadership and ignore many of the structural factors contributing to democratic collapse.
Source: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
Apr 11, 2022
Today, Gary Gerstle discusses the fall of the neoliberal political order in a discussion with Lizabeth Cohen and Kristina Spohr as part of the National History Center's Washington History Seminar.
Source: Mother Jones
Apr 10, 2022
The acquisition of many skeletal specimens by museums was entangled with the harvesting of tissues from the bodies of the socially marginalized.
Source: Organization of American Historians
Apr 9, 2022
The Organization of American Historians has released its 2022 honorees for scholarship, service, and contributions to history.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 8, 2022
by Aram Goudsouzian
Unlike a typical biography, Kostya Kennedy's "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson" looks at four years of the baseball legend's life and his changin civil rights advocacy.
Source: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Apr 8, 2022
"On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals."
Source: New York Review of Books
Apr 7, 2022
by David Cole
Is an all-or-nothing view of constitutional rights at the root of growing cultural clashes pitting civil rights against the free exercise of religion? A new book suggests alternatives.
Source: Black Perspectives
Apr 6, 2022
Justene Hill Edwards and Daniel Immerwahr discuss the relationship between the global transformations of capital, empire and slavery and the history of freedom and unfreedom.
Source: The Baffler
Apr 6, 2022
by Clinton Williamson
Neither utopian nor cataclysmic predictions about the effects of automation made in the 20th century have come exactly to pass; technology has changed, but not replaced, work. Several new books try to connect the past and future of work.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 5, 2022
by Steven Mintz
Zachary Schrag's new Princeton Guide to Historical Research is a fresh update to discussions of historical method that meshes with the urgent pursuit of relevance in the discipline and the involvement of history in public political debate.
Source: Axios
Apr 4, 2022
The biography of Perales comes at a time when Texas conservatives are pushing to limit the teaching of histories of racial discrimination.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 4, 2022
by Xochitl Gonzalez
The Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers' Organization encouraged its college-educated members to take on industrial work to support a labor union movement in crisis; the moment encouraged a broader sense of who is a worker. Today, are workers in health, service, and logistics coming to a similar recognition?
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 4, 2022
by Daniel Immerwahr
"Whatever else the Second World War was about, it was, on both sides, a war for empire."
Source: Boston Review
Apr 4, 2022
by Alan Wald
As the political thought of the Italian marxist is increasingly used and misused in popular discourse, including in right-wing attacks on "cultural Marxism," has the time come for this generation's biography of Antonio Gramsci?
