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
Oct 2, 2020
by Victor Ray
"Ironically, Trump’s most recent executive order banning racial sensitivity training confirms critical race theory’s central point: Racism is embedded in the law."
Source: Washington Post
Oct 2, 2020
Trump, 74, was diagnosed hours after it became publicly known that Hope Hicks, a top Trump aide who traveled with him on Air Force One and Marine One this week, tested positive Thursday morning.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 2, 2020
If Hope Hicks's test hadn’t leaked, would we even know about Trump?
Source: Los Angeles Times
Oct 1, 2020
Orange County's popular historian Gustavo Arellano recounts a 1988 election day featuring the kind of nativist fearmongering about fraudulent voting coming from the White House today.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 1, 2020
Critics of the Department of Education contend that its investigations into alleged free speech violations by university administrations are part of a conservative politics of grievance aimed at higher education institutions. The DOE says conservative groups are being singled out.
Source: New York Times
Oct 1, 2020
An examination of the centuries-old Black community in and around Sag Harbor on Long Island, first a working port, then a vacation destination for the Black elite during segregation, to a historic enclave threatened by redevelopment.
Source: Slate
Oct 1, 2020
A recent survey claimed to show widespread ignorance about the Holocaust among young American adults, but its methods may not support its most sensational conclusions. Regardless, other surveys show that Americans value learning about the history of the Holocaust. Educators should capitalize by encouraging students to go beyond memorizing facts to understanding the processes of ethnic vilification, political violence and genocide.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 1, 2020
Most of the wave of political books on the Trump administration fixate on the President's personality or disregard for norms and niceties instead of evaluating the structural factors that made his presidency possible.
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 1, 2020
It is difficult to know how many of the people--many retired or active military and law enforcement--listed in an Oath Keepers database are active members of the far right group, but the organization's history and the prospect of political violence mean it should be taken seriously.
Oct 1, 2020
by HNN Staff
I'm making a personal appeal on behalf of HNN contributor Ron Steinman for help locating a kidney donor.
Source: National History Center
Oct 1, 2020
The National History Center, The Woodrow Wilson Center and Politics & Prose Books prouldy host Martin Sherwin on Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962. Friday, October 2, 6:00 PM.
Source: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Sep 30, 2020
The coal magnate, who for decades ran the largest privately owned underground coal mining company in the United States, has also been at the forefront of combatting federal regulations that attempt to reduce black lung, an incurable and ultimately fatal lung disease caused by exposure to coal and rock dust.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 30, 2020
Since 2016, Kevin Young has been director of the Schomburg Center, a division of the New York Public Library and an important cultural organization in Harlem.
Source: Foreign Policy
Sep 30, 2020
Donald Trump's Proud Boy supporters and other far-right groups may not be able to seize power, but they don't need to. Political science research on episodes of political violence shows that creating and maintaining tension around the possibility of violence can intimidate the left, encourage law enforcement crackdown, and manipulate public opinion.
Source: American Historical Association
Sep 30, 2020
Join a panel of historians on October 8 for a discussion of the increasingly common postdoctoral fellowship and how to make the best use of it for professional and career development in and out of academe.
Source: New York Times
Sep 29, 2020
A look inside the subculture of "dusty hunters," collectors of old-stock liquor. Usually this means finding discontinued brands in the back of a liquor store, but sometimes it means buying a legendary film director's supply.
Source: The Intercept
Sep 29, 2020
A 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that officials had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years but failed to warn the public.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 29, 2020
Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin interviewed former Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid, who suggests the time has come to remove the filibuster from the Senate rules in response to the undemocratic nature of the chamber.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 28, 2020
A new book of found and collected photographs documents romantic love betwen men before the gay rights revolution.
Source: Made By History at The Washington Post
Sep 28, 2020
by Chang Che
Black activists have long leveraged American desires for international legitimacy to forge antiracist alliances with China. Today, the Black Lives Matter movement has received support from Beijing, but must consider the costs of an alliance with a regime with its own human rights issues.
