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: PBS News Hour
1/4/20201
"I think there is a good argument to be made that he violated both federal law, which prevents one person from trying to get another to procure fraudulent votes, as well as Georgia law, which makes election fraud, ballot box stuffing a crime."
Source: Boston Review
10/7//2020
by Robin D.G. Kelley
Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.
Source: TIME
https://time.com/5889051/history-curriculum-politi
by Olivia Waxman
"The teaching of U.S. History in public schools has always been political, and such concerns about whether curricula are “anti-American” are par for the course in moments of turmoil."
Source: Deadline
57/2020
“Understanding our past provides a pathway for our future, which is why I’m so glad to be partnering again with History to tell the remarkable stories of some of our best past presidents,” Doris Kearns Goodwin said.
Source: Renegade South
2/30/20
by Victoria Bynum
Part of the ongoing historical debate.
Source: Origins
December
by Amanda Lawson
In his book, historian David C. Kirkpatrick explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American Evangelical Left.
Updated 11/20/19
What historians are saying, tweeting and retweeting.
Source: AP
https://www.apnews.com/33adc66aee4c40cea19d6049bb6
Hurricanes, thievery and wrecks are taking out North Carolina's popular historical highway markers faster than the state can keep up.
Source: CNN
3/29/29
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced their legislation Friday.
Source: Diverse Education
3/1219
“History, for me, is a way to talk not just about the past, but to use the past for inspiration, for information, for a lot of different things,” says Higginbotham.
Source: The Guardian
3/3/`9
The authors detail the life of a woman who refused to be a possession of the nation’s first president and the Michigan city’s troubled past.
Source: Scholarly Kitchen
1/8/29
by Karin Wulf
Explore new resources that highlight the contributions of women historians.
Source: Edge Effects
April 7, 2107
"I honestly think we are the last explicitly narrative discipline left in the American academy (with the journalists, as well)."
Source: CNN
2=22=18
With tensions flaring between President Donald Trump and national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the Pentagon is considering options that would allow the President to potentially move the three-star general out of his current role and back into the military, according to half a dozen defense and administration officials.
Source: The University Daily Kansan
9-128-17
“I am mostly trained as a historian, but a historian of women, gender and sexuality.” – Nicholas Syrett
Source: The New Yorker
9-4-127 (accessed)
Even in a fractious era, the filmmaker still believes that his documentaries can bring every viewer in.
Source: Fine Books Magazine
4-2016
It’s a new position dedicated to serving as the top technical expert and adviser on the history of the Library of Congress
Source: University of Chicago Magazine
Jan-Feb- 2014
by Rick Perlstein
"On the subject of his college career, one of his mumbles follows the words “kids of doctors and lawyers.” His father sold paint. He felt out of place. Politics helped."
Source: Mosaic
10-6-124 (accessed)
by Robert S. Wistrich
"I have visited France countless times during recent decades; never before did I hear French Jews say so often that they consider Israel to be their homeland. "
Source: Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)
Summer 2014
by Gil J. stein
"We at the Oriental Institute are excited to be playing a part in this archaeological renaissance."
