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
Sep 28, 2020
Massimo Faggioli, a church historian and theologian at Villanova University, a Catholic school, studies these lay-led movements — also called “renewal” groups — that began popping up since Vatican II. While some are a source of spiritual energy, they may also reflect militance and untransparent leadership.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 28, 2020
"Art shouldn’t be polite. Guston’s work puts you into a headlock and forces you to stare into the face of evil, rearranging your sense of reality into a better one – and that’s what art needs to do more than ever."
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 28, 2020
As one of the first women to forge a successful career as a painter, Artemisia was celebrated internationally in her lifetime, but her reputation languished after her death.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 28, 2020
Graduate programs in humanities and social sciences, including in history, face difficult decisions about how matriculating new graduate students as the pandemic makes a bad job market eve worse and makes many established forms of research impossible to conduct.
Source: New York Times
Sep 26, 2020
“I’m learning a lot of this embarrassingly late in the game,” Mr. Levy said during the first discussion. “But ultimately these stories are crucial to the identity of our country.”
Source: New York Magazine
Sep 26, 2020
For Schlafly's successors in the Christian right, there is now one acceptable way to take a piece of male authority for themselves, and it runs through professional anti-feminism.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 25, 2020
Hinton’s work as a cinematographer and filmmaker achieved a similar balance between taking in the grander sweep of history and considering the nature, appearance, manner, and presence of the individual people making it.
Source: BBC
Sep 25, 2020
While advocates see reinterrment at the National Mausoleum as a recognition of gay contributors to French literary history, some opponents suggest the iconoclastic poets would have rejected any such honor.
Source: New York Times
Sep 25, 2020
Presidents throughout American history have strategized to influence the timing of justices’ exits to suit various White House priorities.
Source: New York Times
Sep 25, 2020
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power reviews Susan Glasser and Peter Baker's new biography of Republican Party stalwart James Baker III.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 25, 2020
Governing boards of public university systems have become partisan battlegrounds, putting politics ahead of academics on campus.
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 24, 2020
The Anti-Rioting Act was conceived as a way to suppress civil rights protests in the 1960s and today may be invoked to charge participants in protests with serious federal crimes.
Source: The New Republic
Sep 24, 2020
The conduct of the Trump administration shows a long trend of increased presidential power must be stopped.
Source: NPR
Sep 24, 2020
NPR's "Throughline" examines the growth of evangelical christianity as a political movement and its influence over the nomination of a Supreme Court justice and the election.
Source: Mother Jones
Sep 24, 2020
People of Praise evolved in response to the reforms of Vatican II and the spiritual energy of evangelical Protestantism; former adherents say that the control the group exerts over members makes questions about Amy Comey Barrett's membership legitimate.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 24, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's research trip to Sweden at age 29 challenged her to see that gendered divisions of labor and opportunity in American society were not automatic or necessary.
Source: New Statesman
Sep 23, 2020
Stephen Wertheim questions whether politicians will heed the overwhelming public desire to scale back military intervention and get the Pentagon's spending under control.
Source: Iowa Public Radio
Sep 23, 2020
Poet James Autry's newest book tells the story of his cousin, a white man who remained in Mississippi as a liberal advocate for integration and justice.
Source: New York Times
Sep 23, 2020
After 1960, much of history as many Americans experienced it — through popular culture on TV, on the radio and at the movies — is preserved and easily accessible online. With a few clicks around YouTube, history leaps into the present, often in ways that deepen and complicate the narrative.
Source: Associate Press
Sep 23, 2020
Letters between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon in the 1980s, recently released by the Nixon Library, show the two men bonded over themes that resonate today: a shared distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as “props,” and more.
