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 4, 2021
The term "conservatism" conceals and normalizes the radical anti-democratic tenor of the current Republican Party, argues Post columnist Margaret Sullivan, drawing on scholars including historian Heather Cox Richardson.
Source: New York Times
Jan 4, 2021
"A group of prominent American historians added their voice on Monday to the debate about President Trump’s effort to overturn the election, decrying what they called an undemocratic bid to unravel a free and fair vote that has no historical precedent in the long annals of the United States."
Source: nj.com
Jan 4, 2021
Historian Kevin Kruse discusses the lessons Americans should learn (and those they will learn) from 2020.
Source: New York Times
Jan 4, 2021
“Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, and his pressure tactics to that end with Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, are an example of how authoritarianism works in the 21st century,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
Jan 3, 2021
Los Angeles Times columinst Nicholas Goldberg says the roster of Trump's 1776 commission does not suggest a serious effort to wrestle with the complexity of American history.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 3, 2021
Romila Thapar's studies of the complexities of religion and ethnicity in India's history have made her a target for the nation's ruling right-wing ethnonationalist government.
Source: NPR
Jan 2, 2021
Since 2009, a nonprofit organization called Advancing Women Artists has worked to recover work by female artists and document the history of sexism in the arts.
Source: New York Times
Jan 2, 2021
Civil rights historian Calinda Lee places Atlanta at the center of political and economic changes in the south, but whether the change is deep or superficial remains to be seen.
Source: WDET
Dec 31, 2020
Enslaved.org is a searchable database that contains millions of records representing enslaved Africans and their descendants.
Source: Lowell Sun
Dec 31, 2020
An undergraduate honors course in history led by Robert Forrant is developing public history markers to commemorate the Le Petit Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Source: Mississippi Today
Dec 29, 2020
A multidisciplinary task force of scholars at the University of Mississippi is working to tell the stories of people enslaved at the university and examine the role of slavery in building the institution.
Source: New York Times
Dec 29, 2020
Ted DeLaney worked as a custodian at Washington and Lee before graduating at age 41, returned as a professor, became the school's first Black department chair, and pushed the school to confront the moral and ethical implications of venerating Robert E. Lee.
Source: TIME
Dec 23, 2020
All this happened since January 1. The year isn't over yet.
Source: National History Center
Dec 22, 2020
The National History Center announces the lineup for its Washington History Seminar for Spring 2021.
Source: New York Times
Dec 22, 2020
The New York Times has published a deep dive into the history of police union contracts, which, in the wake of protests in cities like Detroit, became extremely powerful shields for police departments and individual officers from accountability for misconduct.
Source: American Historical Association
Dec 22, 2020
The AHA sent a letter to the chancellor and provost of the University of Mississippi expressing concern about the university’s decision not to renew the contract of Garrett Felber, assistant professor of history, and the possibility that Professor Felber’s activism relating to racism and incarceration might have affected a decision on his employment status.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 22, 2020
by Gillian Brockell
Michael Flynn's casual mention that martial law has ben invoked "64 times" flagrantly ignores the context of those events. What he proposes for Trump to do is unprecedented.
Source: Haymarket Books
Dec 22, 2020
A group of scholars will convene a virtual event to discuss the case of Garrett Felber at the University of Mississippi and the status of activist scholarship in the U.S. academy, including historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Elizabeth Hinton.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Dec 21, 2020
The appointment of Confederate sympathizer Phil Bryant to Trump's "patriotic" history commission shows that it is an exercise in ideology and culture war politics, not a defense of historical rigor.
Source: Governing
Dec 21, 2020
Carole McGranahan, a professor of history and anthropology, says that social media need to be taken seriously as sources of insight into the actions of prominent and anonymous people alike, and need to be preserved as sources.
