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: YouTube
Mar 4, 2022
Historian Heather Cox Richardson talks with President Joe Biden about his views on American democracy in the 21st century.
Source: TIME
Mar 3, 2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Omer Bartov and Jeffrey Veidlinger, discuss the specific history of postwar "denazification" and how that process has been misappropriated to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 3, 2022
Alex Wellerstein discusses how his interactive site allows users to see what would happen to a place hit by a nuclear warhead, and why this week many Americans have been "nuking" their own hometowns.
Source: Notches
Mar 3, 2022
"People born with bodily differences that fall outside the bounds of “normal” have suffered tremendously, as physicians have tried to “fix” their bodies and their psyches to fit into a narrow conception of acceptability."
Source: Washington Post
Mar 2, 2022
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds's response to SOTU was heavy on recent culture war themes. Historian Eric Rauchway says that if Biden can repeat the performance of leadership by FDR in the face of the rising threat of fascism, these tactics might be irrelevant.
Source: American Historical Association
Mar 1, 2022
David Engerman moderates a panel discussion of the histories of Russia and Ukraine, the impact of the end of the Cold War on relations between the nations, and how to understand the invasion in context. Of particular interest to students and teachers.
Source: TIME
Mar 1, 2022
by Gillian Brockell
The Dan David Prize has defined its focus as supporting historians, in recognition of the public significance of historical knowledge and the political and institutional attacks on the discipline and its practitioners.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 1, 2022
by John Dickerson
Michael Kazin's new history of the Democratic Party hints at a possible path for Biden to manage Democratic dissention, Republican intransigence, and challenges domestic and international.
Source: Vox
Mar 1, 2022
Historians and diplomats including Stephen Wertheim and Joseph Nye offer insight on the limits of what American power can achieve toward stopping Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Source: The New Republic
Mar 1, 2022
In her new book "Camera Man" Stevens shows how Keaton's career connected to the changes shaking up entertainment and society.
Source: Boston Review
Mar 1, 2022
by David Roediger
A suppressed history of conquest and expulsion pervades the state of Illinois; A new book seeks to recover it.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Feb 28, 2022
Dunn, among other achievements, founded what is now the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Source: mesana.org
Feb 28, 2022
The association is concerned that the University of Washington defunded an endowed chair in Israel Studies after donors complained about the faculty member's statements as a private citizen criticizing Israeli policies in Gaza.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Feb 27, 2022
Putin's claims to be protecting Ukrainians from domestic fascism will fail as propaganda, says Jason Stanley, who calls Russian Christian nationalism the real threat to Jews in Ukraine.
Source: Jewish Journal
Feb 27, 2022
"We strongly reject the Russian government’s cynical abuse of the term genocide, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, and the equation of the Ukrainian state with the Nazi regime to justify its unprovoked aggression."
Source: WTTW
Feb 26, 2022
Both industry and local realtors were key players in the development of La Villita in southwest Chicago.
Source: Globe and Mail
Feb 24, 2022
Olgah Martynyuk of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute spoke to journalists while preparing to leave the country by train to Poland, saying Ukrainians are determined to defend their democracy.
Source: NPR
Feb 24, 2022
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) professor discusses the post-Cold War paths of Ukraine and Russia as the context for this week's invasion, and argues that reviving lapsed treaties on intermediate nuclear forces and troop levels in Europe could support a cease-fire.
Source: Gilder Lehrman Institute
Feb 23, 2022
The Gilder Lehrman Institute announces a planned return to in-person events with its Teacher Symposium, featuring courses led by prominent scholars and other programming.
Source: CBS News
Feb 23, 2022
Chris Miller, an assistant professor of international history at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, joins CBS News' Tanya Rivero and Nikki Battiste to provide some historical context for the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
