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 Atlantic
Apr 26, 2021
The writer's personal experiences, in light of a historical review of ideas about female sexuality, suggests that more knowledge has reinforced the social control of women by making pleasure obligatory rather than prohibited (Note: contains frank, explicit and extensive discussions of sexual activity).
Source: Age of Revolutions
Apr 26, 2021
by Crystal Eddins
"Wicked Flesh" enriches understanding of the African diaspora by focusing attention on the intimate lives of women as political and significant.
Source: NPR Illinois
Apr 26, 2021
Historian Ara Sanjian says that the Biden Administration's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue.
Source: Smithsonian
Apr 26, 2021
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a surprising number of Americans thought moving the capital (and the Capitol building itself) to St. Louis was a good idea, say historians Adam Arenson and Walter Johnson.
Source: Car and Driver
Apr 25, 2021
Mia Bay's new book examines how the forces of Black freedom and White supremacy collided over freedom of movement.
Source: New York Times
Apr 25, 2021
by Thomas E. Ricks
Malcolm Gladwell's new study of the US Air Force unexpectedly rehabilitates the image of General Curtis LeMay.
Source: Jacobin
Apr 25, 2021
The growing far right has sought to draw a moral equivalency between Italian Fascists and the leftist partisans, including Communists, who fought to expel fascist forces from occupied Yugoslavia at the end of World War II. Historian Eric Gobetti says that victims of reprisals were targeted for fascist allegiance, not Italian ethnicity.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Apr 25, 2021
“Government doing something for people ... that was an idea that was disabled,” said Princeton historian Sean Wilentz. “He’s trying to bring it back.”
Source: New York Times
Apr 24, 2021
New research shows little evidence that the civilization centered around Cahokia in the Mississippi valley caused its own demise by environmental mismanagement, indicating that perhaps "stories of great civilizations seemingly laid low by ecological hubris may say more about our current anxieties and assumptions than the archaeological record."
Source: New York Times
Apr 24, 2021
The declaration, which has been long expected, was greeted with modest enthusiasm by human rights activists who view it as symbolic, and with denunciations by the Turkish government.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 24, 2021
The Polish Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in part after losing 49 family members to the Holocaust. But he was also motivated by his earlier study of the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.
Source: Black Perspectives
Apr 23, 2021
Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society seeks submissions of original work on the themes of racial violence, racial justice, wealth, inequality and reparations for a special issue commemorating 1921 Tulsa racist massacre.
Source: Boston Review
Apr 23, 2021
by Steven Hahn
Three books support a reconceptualization of the Age of Revolution from below, accounting for the way that struggles for emancipation shaped the world that emerged.
Source: Public Books
Apr 23, 2021
Frederick Wiseman's documentaries valorize not only the institutions but the labor that makes local government function against the odds.
Source: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
Apr 22, 2021
"James Banner’s book, the first full-length work on revisionist history since 1929, explains why, since the time of ancient Greece, historians have disagreed with others’ interpretations of the past."
Source: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Apr 22, 2021
Historians are represented among the 2020 electees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Apr 21, 2021
Cameron Blevins's new book documents the role of the postal service in enabling the westward expansion of the United States and the conquest of Native American peoples.
Source: New York Times
Apr 21, 2021
"In 'On Juneteenth' Annette Gordon-Reed leads by example, revisiting her own experiences, questioning her own assumptions — and showing that historical understanding is a process, not an end point."
Source: TIME
Apr 21, 2021
"They’re just picking up on these words and terms and phrases that have been used and misused for so long—but I do appreciate that people were really pushing back."
Source: Wolfson Foundation
Apr 21, 2021
The Wolfson Foundation announces its shortlist for the UK's most prestigious award for history writing.
