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: Washington Post
Jan 24, 2022
As nuclear readiness is increased in response to North Korean tests and the territorial goals of China and Russia, it's time to revisit times when an accidental nuclear war came close to happening.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 24, 2022
“We shouldn't shy away from this more complicated, more accurate picture,” historian Kevin Kruse told me. “Democracy is an ongoing project, and we should all be wrestling with whether our actions live up to our ideals.”
Source: The Metropole
Jan 24, 2022
by Claire Dunning
Benjamin Holtzman's new book asks readers to reconsider the role of local community organizations and their liberal allies in creating the turn to market processes and entrepreneurial social programs associated with neoliberal urban policy.
Source: PEN America
Jan 24, 2022
The sloppiness of many of the new gag order laws, including factual errors, contradictory language and vague definitions, will create more than confusion; it will create fear.
Source: NBC News
Jan 24, 2022
“The victims of this censorship are history and the truth,” J. Michael Butler said. “The end game is they’re going to make teaching civil rights into ‘critical race theory,’ and it’s not.”
Source: New Hampshire Public Radio
Jan 24, 2022
Rep. Eric Gallagher, the bill's sponsor, argued that instead of focusing on the workforce development needs of employers the state's curriculum should inform students about "what sort of skills they might need to stand up to their boss."
Source: The Guardian
Jan 23, 2022
David Hendy's book was built on complete access to BBC archives, but a reviewer finds that it's long on bureaucratic history and short on analysis of the programming that made the Beeb a national institution.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 23, 2022
by E.J. Dionne
Democratic politicians and their allies must commit to fighting for voting rights and stronger safeguards to the electoral process despite the crushing defeat in the effort to reform the filibuster.
Source: Thirteen
Jan 21, 2022
Denim touches the history of American slavery, immigration, industrialization and counterculture. An upcoming "American Experience" feature tells the story.
Source: Sh!tpost Podcast
Jan 20, 2022
Wikipedian Ksenia Coffman, who has established herself as an expert at rooting out propaganda, Nazi apologetics and misinformation from the internet's encyclopedia, joins far-right watchdog Jared Holt to discuss her work and the tensions between accuracy and accessibility in online history.
Source: World Socialist Website
Jan 20, 2022
The Stanford historian emeritus gives a wide-ranging interview about his career, the American revolution, writing history, and his disagreements with the 1619 Project.
Jan 20, 2022
Historians had thoughts on their subfields – click in the embedded Tweet to read the replies.
Source: YouTube
Jan 19, 2022
The Michigan professor defends a controversial course intro video that resulted in his suspension, saying his purpose was to provoke thought and make students aware of the risks and dangers of in-person instruction.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 19, 2022
“If you haven’t read, in entirety, his speeches, you’ve been miseducated and I hope that you will,” Hannah-Jones said on Twitter.
Source: EdWeek
Jan 18, 2022
The organized campaign to demonize and ban "Critical Race Theory" has resulted in legislation that is disrupting the crafting and implementation of curriculum standards in multiple states, a review of state education standards and public comments on them reveals.
Source: University of Mississippi
Jan 18, 2022
Historian Garrett Felber and his students began a project to document the experiences of Mississippi students arrested in 1970 and sent to the notorious prison farm.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 17, 2022
Despite its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, efforts to publicly document the history of Rio's Valongo Wharf have run into opposition from the country's right-wing government and those who wish to diminish the significance of slavery in Brazil's history.
Source: WBUR
Jan 17, 2022
McKay Jenkins of the University of Delaware's new book tells the story of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, how they fought on the slopes of Italy, and helped develop the modern sport of skiing.
Source: WBUR
Jan 17, 2022
The late leader's opposition to militarism, economic injustice, and white supremacy, which sustained a broad critique of capitalist society, have been sanitized and reduced to platitudes by people who would prefer not to recognize the equality of all people, the historian told the annual MLK Memorial Breakfast.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 17, 2022
Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker's book assembles essays from historians who undermine myths of Maryland history shaped by Confederate sympathizers.
