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: Jacobin
Apr 4, 2022
"If you find out that, very early on, there’s somebody advocating emancipation, it just makes the narrative a little bit messier."
Source: The Nation
Apr 4, 2022
Academics and activists on the left in Eastern Europe say the American left views the Ukraine war through a lens of criticizing American imperialism, which leads to a skewed assessment of responsibility for the war.
Source: CNN
Apr 2, 2022
Peter DeSimone, Timothy Snyder and Ian Ona Johnson discuss the errors of logistics, diplomacy, and treatment of civilians that have hindered the achievement of Russia's goals in Ukraine.
Source: Dissent
Apr 1, 2022
Legal scholar Dorothy Roberts's new book argues that the child welfare system has historical roots in campaigns of oppression against Black and Native Americans; combined with the financial incentives of privatized social services, the system encourages abuse and exploitation today.
Source: HuffPost
Mar 31, 2022
"Black youth say they feel squarely in the crosshairs of the latest culture wars engulfing America’s schools — seeing themselves as collateral damage in a political firestorm."
Source: Austin American-Statesman
Mar 31, 2022
"Staley turned the archives into a global powerhouse that rivals the collecting achievements of Harvard University, Yale University and the British Museum."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 31, 2022
by John Samuel Harpham
"Like all ideas, race has a history. There was a time before it. In turn conceptions of it have shifted over time, and it has been charged with different meanings in different settings." Gates and Curran have identified a little-studied collection of 1739 essays on race that mark a key shift in the idea.
Source: Codastory
Mar 30, 2022
"Seen from an American perspective, Germany is often portrayed as the wise and capable professor of remembrance; the U.S its difficult student."
Source: The Chatner
Mar 29, 2022
by Daniel Lavery
"It’s the most prominent example of a type of book that fascinates me: The amateur/popular history of an entire field that’s largely beloved (or at least successful) outside of said field and widely loathed within it."
Source: The New Yorker
Mar 28, 2022
Historian Elizabeth Elkins's new book on the British Empire "contends that Britain’s use of systematic violence was no better than that of its rivals. The British were simply more skilled at hiding it."
Source: Mother Jones
Mar 28, 2022
Historian Paul Renfro explains the rising fears of child abduction in the 1980s and the way those fears have been used politically.
Source: The New Republic
Mar 28, 2022
by Jack Sheehan
Fintan O'Toole's acclaimed popular history of modern Ireland delivers a sharp indictment of child abuse by Catholic priests and the operators of reform schools and institutions, but substitutes national-level psychoanalysis for research in other areas, a historian argues.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 28, 2022
Betsy Prioleau's book details the scandalous life and political impact of Mrs. Frank Leslie, who legally changed her name to that of her late husband and built a publishing empire.
Source: New York Magazine
Mar 28, 2022
For a certain left-leaning online audience, Tooze's rigorous approach is beating out ironic smartassery and the shallower efforts of some self-styled "explainers" to build a potent public intellectual brand.
Source: Jewish Currents
Mar 28, 2022
A team of historians and Jewish and Russian Studies scholars introduce a project to examine the more recent history of Jews in the former Soviet Union.
Source: American Historical Association
Mar 28, 2022
"The AHA, its members, and other historians find ourselves on the front lines of a conflict over America's past, up against opponents who are actively promoting ignorance in the name of unity."
Source: The Metropole
Mar 28, 2022
by Bob Carey
A new book examines the growth of the Kiryas Joel community of Hasidic Jews in rural New York State, and the tension between religious community and secular power.
Source: Rolling Stone
Mar 27, 2022
"In a very real sense, Clarence and Ginni Thomas are answerable only to Clarence and Ginni Thomas. The Trump Administration gave us all a hard lesson in how few actual rules bind the behavior of our national leaders."
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 26, 2022
Bret Devereaux is trying to lead fellow historians to understand the influence a number of popular strategy games have for students understanding of both historical fact and the "mechanics" of historical change.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 25, 2022
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Hirshman focuses on the complex character of abolitionist editor Maria Weston Chapman, whose combination of moral fervor and racial prejudice pushed Frederick Douglass from the moralistic Garrisonian camp to a pragmatic and more effective strategy of political activism.
