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 New Yorker
May 30, 2022
Anthony Davis's 1985 opera "X" was slow to catch on in the American repertory, a fact that would have been no surprise to its subject.
Source: Places Journal
May 30, 2022
Gordon Parks's photographs showed the humanity of the workers in the nation's massive war mobilization, notably at a Pittsburgh grease plant.
Source: Washington Post
May 29, 2022
Baby formula companies have committed serious ethical lapses in the recent past, but that doesn't mean that a return to universal breastfeeding of babies is possible or even desirable.
Source: The New Yorker
May 26, 2022
Australia, Britain and Canada took decisive and successful steps to reduce mass shootings since the 1990s.
Source: TeenVogue
May 26, 2022
Patrick Purdy killed 5 children, all from Southeast Asian refugee families, and injured 30 others in a schoolyard gun attack in 1989, an incident that should be a reminder of the horrific combination of racism and guns in America. Gun violence scholar Pat Blanchfield explains how we've collectively forgotten.
Source: Smithsonian
May 24, 2022
An irony of the "Maus" controversy is that the government used the medium of comics to inform the public about the discovery of the Nazi death camps.
Source: CNN
May 24, 2022
West Point historian Ty Seidule was vice-chair of the renaming commission, and sought community input for the proposal.
Source: Smithsonian
May 24, 2022
Sculptor Sabin Howard's ambitious design for the memorial relied on the modern power of digital photography to capture motion and the old-school forming of clay to freeze it in time.
Source: The Racket
May 24, 2022
by Jonathan M. Katz
What can be taken away from the battle erupting between journalists and historians over the Times's blockbuster news event on Haiti's post-independence forced ransom?
Source: Jacobin
May 24, 2022
Moral panics are proving useful for a right-wing agenda of undermining public trust in public education; America's oligarchs are stoking them, argues a school social worker.
Source: NextCity
May 23, 2022
Outgoing governor Ralph Northam removed the graffiti-covered pedestal of the former Robert E. Lee monument, which has become a site of community gathering and a public forum to express alternative visions of history. Cities should try to encourage such openness (if not spray-painting).
Source: Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2022
by Kate Kelly
The ERA would anchor a constitutional right to gender equality that could support a legal defense of abortion rights, and has already met the technical requirements for ratification.
Source: The New Yorker
May 23, 2022
Do the gifts of the super-wealthy cancel out the damage done by the unequal system that allows them to accumulate it?
Source: Boston Globe
May 22, 2022
The renovation site will be a popup history museum as barriers will be decorated with recruitment posters, servicemen's letters, and other ephemera from the history of the Massachusetts 54th regiment of African American soldiers.
Source: The Bulwark
May 20, 2022
by Cathy Young
No – while the Democrats have been publicly (and perhaps unjustifiably) confident that demographic change favors their electoral interests, the right is bringing a racist conspiracy theory from the fringes to the mainstream.
Source: Academe Blog
May 19, 2022
by John K. Wilson
Boise State suspended multiple sections of a core course affecting nearly 1,300 students based on a lie told by a state legislator about the alleged mistreatment of a conservative student by fellow students and a professor; expect more of these attacks on higher education funding.
Source: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
May 19, 2022
The Washington History Seminar discusses Christopher Goscha's history of the Vietnamese war for liberation against French colonialism.
Source: Salon
May 18, 2022
The ideology links far-right authoritarianism with environmental concerns through the idea that an excess population of nonwhite and non-western people are responsible for overconsumption and waste.
Source: African American Policy Forum
May 18, 2022
"Racial terrorism would die out with the generations weaned on it—or so the more hopeful among us believed."
Source: The Atlantic
May 18, 2022
by Adam Serwer
Whether they blame a secret cabal of elites or the Democratic Party, proponents of "replacement" rhetoric share a belief that legitimate citizenship is racially exclusive and that legitimate elections require white voters to get what they want, echoing anti-immigrant and eugenics rhetoric of the early 20th century.
