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: The Nation
Nov 27, 2021
by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Katrina Forrester's book shows the influence of John Rawls on the study of ethics, but also reveals the limits of abstract theory for understanding historical injustice.
Source: Times Higher Education
Nov 25, 2021
“These new history wars have the warped logic of a witch trial; their aim is to convince people that they are being oppressed by the irrefutable facts of their own national histories, such as slavery in America, or the British Empire,” University of Manchester historian David Olusoga said.
Source: The New Republic
Nov 23, 2021
Edward Miller's new book presents the case that the John Birch Society was not a retrograde reactionary force but the vanguard of modern conservative culture war politics.
Source: The New Republic
Nov 18, 2021
by Eric Herschthal
By shoehorning his recent book on the Revolutionary War into the space of the debate about slavery and the founding, critics of Woody Holton are missing important points about the importance of indigenous land to the founding and the global context of colonial independence.
Source: New York Times
Nov 18, 2021
The historian discusses the normalization of far-right ideology on Ezra Klein's podcast, featuring guest host Nicole Hemmer.
Source: NPR
Nov 17, 2021
"I'd be surprised to find any city that did not have restrictive covenants," said LaDale Winling, a historian and expert on housing discrimination who teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 17, 2021
Helen Roche has published the first comprehensive history of the Napolas, the schools Nazis established to train future leaders of the Reich, and notes deep patterns of exchange between teachers and students at British and German schools before the start of war.
Source: WNYC
Nov 17, 2021
With the release of the expanded book version of her 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones is back in the spotlight, for admirers and critics alike.
Source: New York Times
Nov 17, 2021
The judges described Miles's "All that She Carried" as “a brilliant, original work,” examining a compilation of lives “that ordinary archives suppress.”
Source: NPR
Nov 15, 2021
A new book discusses a women's pro football league in the 1960s, and the role of homophobia and sexism in undermining it.
Source: Texas Standard
Nov 15, 2021
"My number one biggest issue with white liberals: they assume that they know what’s best for Black people, and that’s why I titled that chapter specifically for them."
Source: New York Review of Books
Nov 15, 2021
by David Motadel
"Most of the perpetrators of the Holocaust have passed away, but German courts still have an opportunity to prosecute those who remain alive. It is the final chapter in the country’s long and not very successful history of ensuring justice for their victims."
Source: The New Republic
Nov 15, 2021
by James Chappel
"A politics that relies on young people to revitalize democracy and address inequality is likely to prove a disappointment."
Source: The Nation
Nov 15, 2021
by Nikhil Pal Singh
George Packer's commitment to liberalism prevents him from evaluating why it seems imperiled today.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 15, 2021
Colin Morris identified the beginnings of the concept of individualism two centuries earlier than had previously been believed, part of a career of groundbreaking scholarship on the Middle Ages.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 13, 2021
“America first” and “enemies of the people” are words that are consciously applied by people who wish to destroy democracy. If people don’t know how those words have been applied in the past, then that is dangerous.
Source: The Nation
Nov 13, 2021
by Erin Pineda
"Protesters may be a loud minority of citizens, a set of especially motivated and impassioned individuals who are in many ways not representative of the general public. But the silent majority of voters are not as disconnected from—or dismissive of—protest as many assume."
Source: New York Times
Nov 12, 2021
by Jamelle Bouie
Article IV requires the federal government to guarantee a republican form of government in every state; James Madison's writings in the Federalist and John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy should be touchstones for reviving the influence of the clause.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Nov 12, 2021
As the younger brother of the Austrian emperor, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian was a perfect figurehead for Napoleon III of France's efforts to create a puppet regime in Mexico. Things didn't go the way he hoped.
Source: Smithsonian
Nov 12, 2021
The discovery at Chan Chan is another important archaeological find in the UNESCO World Heritage site.
