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: New York Magazine
11/4/2020
"In the increasingly likely event of a Joe Biden victory, please let us not tell each other now that we are on our way to 'healing'.”
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
11/4/2020
A new book on secession examines the politics of all 15 slave states and power of a reactionary slaveholding elite to force secession.
Source: New York Times
11/4/2020
"Contemporary society has built-in vulnerabilities that could allow things to go very badly indeed — probably not right now, maybe not for a few decades still, but possibly sooner."
Source: Curbed
11/3/2020
Bruce Shulman of Boston University identified riots after William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan in 1896 as one of the few instances of rioting directly inspired by an election.
Source: American Historical Association
11/4/2020
As of Wednesday, some important winners have been announced--the AHA's annual prizes for scholarship, teaching, and contributions to the historical profession.
Source: The New Yorker
10/29/2020
by David Rhode
Trump's indulgence of conspiracy theorists risks casting the government as the enemy of the people. A new social contract is needed to ensure that this breach doesn't widen.
Source: Washington Post
11/5/2020
by Gillian Brockell
While the nation waits for an outcome in the agonizingly close 2020 election, it’s worth examining how we came to rely on polls.
Source: Washington Post
11/4/2020
On the day the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore ruling was released, it was not immediately clear that it made George W. Bush the president-elect.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/05/2020
Anne Berg, historian of European nationalism, discusses how she conducted her class meetings on November 4 as the presidential election remained undecided.
Source: Forbes
11/2/2020
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to establish a 1776 Commission to advise the president on how America’s founding story should be taught in schools.
Source: Chicago Tribune
10/30/2020
“I think if people really understood and grappled with the fact that (Oklahoma City) was the work of a widespread terrorist movement that was deeply organized, had people in every region of the country,” she says in the interview, “I think that people would treat it very, very differently."
Source: Esoteric Political History
11/3/2020
Leah Wright Rigeur discusses the process by which Black voters shifted from loyal Republicans to Democrats.
Source: London Review of Books
11/1/2020
by Thomas Meaney
Two new books articulate a critique from a conservative perspective of American military intervention abroad.
Source: TIME
11/3/2020
by Olivia B. Waxman
Historians and election scholars explain the changes in the political media and the ideological composition of the parties that have made a small number of states politically decisive in presidential elections.
Source: The New Yorker
11/2/2020
New books by David Nasaw and Paul Betts examine the uncertain fate of Jewish Holocaust survivors in postwar Europe, the problem of massive human displacement, and the tension between interpreting Europe's refugee problem in universal terms or focusing on the specific consequences of anti-Jewish policies and prejudice.
Source: WNYC
11/2/2020
Historian Julian Zelizer discusses the history and fallout of FDR's 1937 plan to "pack" the court, and similarities and differences that might come into play in 2021.
Source: Boston Review
10/29/2020
by Samuel Clowes-Huneke
A new book by historian Monica Black suggests that the irrational was never absent from the postwar order—and, moreover, that florid eruptions of mystical thinking often accompany periods of extreme political upheaval.
Source: NPR
10/28/2020
Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez says Donald Trump's aggressively masculine political posture is dysfunctional because it requires enemies.
Source: The New Fascism Syllabus
10/31/2020
"We need to turn away from the rule by entrenched elites and return to the rule of law. We must replace the politics of “internal enemies” with a politics of adversaries in a healthy, democratic marketplace of ideas."
Source: The Guardian
11/1/2020
More than 80 signatories, including professors and other scholars at universities in the US, Canada, and Europe, do not agree on whether to label Donald Trump a “fascist."
