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: Valley Public Radio
Dec 11, 2020
Historian Mario Sifuentez discusses the photographs of Ernest Lowe and the activism of Central Valley farm workers.
Source: NPR
Dec 11, 2020
Historian David Stein argues that social movements can't expect the Biden administration to voluntarily commit to deep reforms of juvenile justice systems; they must organize and exert pressure to force those changes.
Source: The Economist
Dec 11, 2020
A new book focuses on the generation of the body of Enlightenment thought through debate and dispute which foreshadows many of today's debates about the merits of universal humanism and liberal democracy.
Source: The Metropole
Dec 10, 2020
by Tracy Neumann
A new collection of essays seeks to develop a historical understanding and grounding for the often vague term "neoliberalism" through its transformation of urban space and politics.
Source: New York Times
Dec 9, 2020
Cultural historians Stephanie Coontz, Betty Boyd Caroli and Katherine Jellison discuss the historical roles occupied by First Ladies and the ways the position has and will change.
Source: Contingent
Dec 9, 2020
History Phd Spencer McBride describes his work on the Joseph Smith Papers project, which poses unexpected challenges to learn about the world of the LDS founder.
Source: American Enterprise Institute
Dec 9, 2020
To mark the centennial of Prohibition, please join AEI’s Kevin R. Kosar for a conversation exploring how alcohol has influenced America’s economy, politics, and culture.
Source: Yale University
Dec 9, 2020
Notre Dame professor Sophie White's "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor and Longing in French Louisiana" is the winner of the 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on the history of slavery, resistance and abolition.
Source: American Heritage
Dec 9, 2020
by Richard Bell
An excerpt from Richard Bell's award-winning book "Stolen" which tells the story of five free Black boys sold into slavery.
Source: New York Times
Dec 9, 2020
Historian Martha S. Jones led an internal investigation into whether Johns Hopkins owned slaves after a researcher in the Maryland State Archives discovered evidence in the 1850 Census.
Source: New York Times
Dec 9, 2020
Kevin Kruse is among the scholars of Atlanta who offer insight on how the growth of the metro area has overcome the division between the city and its suburbs and turned Georgia purple.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Dec 8, 2020
After administrative decisions at the University of Mississippi were reported to be influenced by the preferences of donors, the administration has sought confidential records from the University Ombuds. Faculty fear retaliation.
Source: TIME
Dec 8, 2020
Historian Lisa Tetrault argues that the idea of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention as the birthplace of the American women's movement was a retroactive story used to include white, respectable, moderate suffragists and exclude both more radical women and women of color from the movement.
Source: WBUR
Dec 8, 2020
Historian Julian Zelizer suggests Kamala Harris will make history not just because of her ethnic identity but because of her likely considerable involvement in White House policymaking.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 8, 2020
Atlantic writer Amanda Mull turns to fashion historians Marley Healy and Valerie Steele to place the growing social acceptance of sweatpants in a pattern of clothing standards changing in response to cultural influences and social conditions.
Source: New York Review of Books
Dec 8, 2020
World War II was bookended by the infliction of mass suffering on Poles at the war's beginning and on German civilians at the war's end, with the worst years of Europe's history in between.
Source: PBS News Hour
Dec 7, 2020
Beverly Gage of Yale University explains how presidential transitions have tested the nation in the past.
Source: 3AW (Australia)
Dec 7, 2020
Arizona State historian Catherine O'Donnell tells an Australian interviewer that 2020 may be bad, but humanity has seen worse years. Listen for a little perspective?
Source: TedEd
Dec 7, 2020
by Riché D. Richardson
A brief video examines Rosa Park's work as a racial justice activist before the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Source: Confederates in My Closet
Dec 6, 2020
by Ann Banks
Ann Banks is interviewed along with Karen Orozco Guttierez about the two women's shared roots in antebellum Alabama.
