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: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jun 2, 2021
Georgia is the latest state in which conservatives have staked out social studies curricula as a culture war battle front.
Source: New York Times
Jun 2, 2021
The damaging import from the US isn't "cancel culture" but a politicized and defensively narrow nationalism. Journalist Cole Stangler says "culture wars are America’s true gift to France."
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 2, 2021
When an insect emerges from the ground en masse every 17 years, it's bound to connect with some significant changes in culture and society.
Source: Slate
Jun 1, 2021
The social rituals of the white elite of St. Louis are historically difficult to separate from the rituals of white supremacy, as a social media blowup involving the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt actress showed this week.
Source: New York Times
Jun 1, 2021
The local council in Reading has been thus far rebuffed in its efforts to purchase Reading Jail, the site of Oscar Wilde's incarceration for "gross indecency," to make it publicly accessible as a historical monument.
Source: New York Times
Jun 1, 2021
"From school boards to the halls of Congress, Republicans are mounting an energetic campaign aiming to dictate how historical and modern racism in America are taught."
Source: Washington Post
Jun 1, 2021
DC leaders are concerned that new police recruits are disconnected from the history and culture of Black communities in the District. Will history lessons help?
Source: BBC
May 31, 2021
The BBC editorializes that the German government's apologies for its genocidal repression in southwest Africa is more public relations than reparation.
Source: ABC News
May 29, 2021
"The decision comes as event organizers reckon with the legacy of brutality and abuse against the LGBTQ community by police that they say still continues today."
Source: Washington Post
May 28, 2021
"We will from now on officially call these events what they are from a contemporary perspective: a genocide.”
Source: Mother Jones
May 28, 2021
Eleanor Holmes Norton has always advocated for DC statehood and full representation in Congress, but today places a higher priority on comprehensive voting rights legislation.
Source: Defector
May 28, 2021
Photographer John Margolies' images of the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk are a peek into the past of the shore town and the history of the tacky beach t-shirt.
Source: TIME
May 27, 2021
Anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield discusses her family’s ties to this history, what the excavation entails, and how the search for the remains of Tulsa Race Massacre victims fits into a long and troubling history of the careless treatment of Black bodies.
Source: The New Yorker
May 27, 2021
Los Angeles County will return title to land that once was "Bruce's Beach," one of the only Southern California oceanfront resorts welcoming Black visitors, to the descendants of the owners from whom the property was taken by eminent domain in 1927.
Source: Associated Press
May 27, 2021
Since desegregating after World War II, the military has cultivated an image of meritocracy. Personnel have always charged that that image masks discrimination and a climate of hostility to servicemembers of color. Military justice procedures make measuring the problem difficult.
Source: Oklahoman
May 26, 2021
by Todd Pendleton and Mason Callejas
The Oklahoman presents an illustrated history of the Greenwood community and the Tulsa race massacre with primary accounts.
Source: New York Times
May 26, 2021
"A debonair Virginian, Mr. Warner was sometimes called the senator from central casting; his ramrod military posture, distinguished gray hair and occasionally overblown speaking style fit the Hollywood model."
Source: Politico
May 25, 2021
If Newt Gingrich is to be belived, the Republicans hope to win back Congressional majorities by focusing on culture war grudges that involve historians –particularly targeting the teaching of critical perspectives on American racism.
Source: War on the Rocks
May 25, 2021
by John Tierney and Samuel M. Hickey
A former Congressman and an arms control analyst argue that the key goal of upcoming meetings between Biden and Putin is nuclear arms control; the United States can afford to use its technological superiority in missile defense as a chip to ensure this greater goal.
Source: The Economist
May 25, 2021
What happened when BLM protest arose in Vidor, Texas, long a center of East Texas Klan activity?
