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
Jul 26, 2021
by Michael Kazin
Eric Rauchway's book on the New Deal stresses that FDR believed democracy could survive only if people accepted, and government supported, their mutual dependence on one another. Preserving the New Deal political order means recognizing and celebrating its tangible achievements.
Source: WNYC
Jul 26, 2021
Postal historian Philip Rubio joins The Takeaway to discuss new service standards that many fear will undermine the public standing of the Postal Service without meaningfully improving the agency's financial standing.
Source: Smithsonian
Jul 26, 2021
From classical civilization to Olga Korbut to Tokyo 2020, here’s what you need to know about gymnastics’ evolution over the past two millennia.
Source: Public Books
Jul 26, 2021
"Of course this society was male-dominated; it was a patriarchal society, like all other historical societies. But it was possible to talk explicitly about sex, sexual pleasure, sexual desire, for both men and women."
Source: The New Yorker
Jul 25, 2021
“Women think all of this is the Bible because they learn it in their churches,” Barr told me. “But it’s really a post-Second World War construction of domesticity, which was designed to send working women back to the kitchen.”
Source: Cross Cultural Solidarity History Project
Jul 25, 2021
A historical project aims to highlight not the attitudes or words but the deeds of White Americans who have made meaningful contributions to the cause of racial equality.
Source: New York Times
Jul 25, 2021
“We won’t be able to truly absorb the lessons of history, and history may just repeat itself,” Mr. Yu said in an interview from Hong Kong. “It couldn’t possibly be exactly like the Cultural Revolution, but something similar can’t be ruled out.”
Source: Mother Jones
Jul 22, 2021
In 1829, South Carolina and Georgia responded to a series of fires they assumed were set by enslaved people by banning both the abolitionist literature they blamed for inciting rebellion and the teaching of literacy to slaves. Today's battles over curriculum are likewise about ideas deemed threatening to social hierarchies.
Source: New York Times
Jul 20, 2021
Historians Daniel Immerwahr and Stephen Wertheim are among the experts quoted on the rise of the idea of American interventionism and its reconsideration after twenty years of the War on Terror.
Source: New York Times
Jul 18, 2021
The South Korean government's efforts to police discussion of historical events, aimed at suppressing right-wing theories about the country's democratization movement, are an exceptional example of the tension between allowing free debate and the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories.
Source: Radio Open Source
Jul 15, 2021
African American Studies scholar Daphne Brooks tells the back stories of Black women in music and the cultural impact of their songs.
Source: The New Yorker
Jul 14, 2021
German author Jenny Erpenbeck's work is an exercise in preserving the objects that place a person's memory in history, particularly her own childhood in East Germany.
Source: TIME
Jul 13, 2021
by Olivia B. Waxman
Historian Raúl A. Ramos discusses the way that the myth of the Alamo has supplanted the real history, and how new state laws stand in the way of the teaching that a multiethnic Texas needs.
Source: LitHub
Jul 12, 2021
Mark Hamill: "George said, 'Look, it’s just a way to keep the merchandising fresh in people’s minds and it’s really a favor to me for those merchandisers.' So I said, 'Oh, all right, but I’m not singing'.”
Source: History.com
Jul 12, 2021
Read an overview of the centrality of the river to Egyptian civilization and the history of efforts to harness the life-sustaining and destructive capacity of the Nile.
Source: NPR
Jul 12, 2021
Hasan Kwame Jeffries: "If you don't teach about race and racism in American history, past and present, I don't know what the hell you're teaching. It's not the truth."
Source: Phenomenal World
Jul 12, 2021
While New York's mayoral campaign has invoked the "bad old days" of the 1970s, the city today is still experiencing the political-economic crisis that erupted 50 years ago.
Source: Salon
Jul 12, 2021
"The notion of multiracial American democracy is very new and very fragile, and people are still fighting about it."
Source: New York Times
Jul 12, 2021
“Anti-urbanism is an American religion, practiced widely and frequently in ordinary times, and passionately when cities are actually in trouble,” wrote Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at N.Y.U.
Source: NPR
Jul 11, 2021
Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history.
