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 Times
10/27/2020
Heather Clark's new biography of the poet returns focus to her life and work rather than her afterlife.
Source: Merrittocracy
10/26/2020
Kevin Kruse joins host Keri Leigh Merritt to discuss his new book on the Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Era and the relevance of that history to the 2020 election.
Source: Smithsonian
10/26/2020
A prison employee named Irma Clifton was instrumental in preserving the site's legacy as the place where suffrage picketers in Washington DC were incarcerated, beaten and tortured in 1917.
Source: TIME
10/26/2020
by Olivia B. Waxman
“The Constitution does not tell you what should happen if there are disputed returns in a presidential election,” says Eric Foner. “We are in uncharted waters if disputes arise as to who carried a state.”
Source: Rest of World
10/26/2020
Museums dedicated to the struggle for civil liberties in Hong Kong face a crisis to preserve records in the face of new public safety laws aimed at curbing criticism of the People's Republic of China.
Source: CBS News
10/25/2020
As the United States celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, a heated competition between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden was rife with accusations of voter fraud and suppression.
Source: National Geographic
10/28/2020
“What happened with the Black Hills is so clearly theft in relation to the U.S.’s own laws,” says Christine Gish Hill, a professor of anthropology at Iowa State University.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review
10/26/2020
Rick Perlstein has been reluctant to do media appearances, perceiving that journalists may use historical analogy as a shortcut to investigating and explaining the present. He discusses his thoughts on history and the media with CJR.
Source: Charlotte Observer
10/26/2020
Donald Trump's chances in North Carolina depend on whether he can successfully deploy the politics of white resentment mastered by the state's longtime senator Jesse Helms.
Source: The New Yorker
10/26/2020
Priya Satia's new book “Time’s Monster” joins a dense body of scholarship analyzing liberal justifications for empire.
Source: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
10/29/2020
Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War--North and South, white and black, slave and free--showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas.
Source: Smithsonian
10/28/2020
“The Jesuits were prolific in their record keeping, but very little survived on the enslaved African Americans who worked the fields and served the Catholic Church,” says Julie Schablitsky, the highway administration’s chief archaeologist, in the statement.
Source: The Baffler
10/28/2020
by Hettie O'Brien
"Stoic practices may allow us to live more easily in the world as it is. But politics is as much about conflict as consensus, and depends, at least in part, upon people getting angry."
Source: Politico
10/27/2020
The Antebellum slave power suppressed democracy and abolitionism through control of the institutions of American government, from the Senate to the courts to the postal service. Only after secession and the start of civil war did the Republican Party fight back successfully with hardball tactics.
Source: New York Times
10/27/2020
In “The Kidnapping Club,” the historian Jonathan Daniel Wells describes the circle of slave catchers and police officers who terrorized New York’s Black population in the three decades before the Civil War.
Source: WGBH
10/26/2020
Fred Logevall, author of a new JFK biography, discusses the 1960 presidential debates between Kennedy and Nixon.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
10/26/2020
by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Despite Jackie Robinson's intercession, Richard Nixon's moment of indecision in 1960 allowed Jack Kennedy to connect his campaign with the cause of Martin Luther King and civil rights.
Source: The Guardian
10/26/2020
Time’s Monster is a book about history and empire. Not a straightforward history, but an account of how the discipline of history has itself enabled the process of colonisation, “making it ethically thinkable”.
Source: NPR
10/22/2020
In this episode, the process of voting; how it was originally designed, who it was intended for, moments in our country's history when we reimagined it altogether, and what we're left with today.
Source: Saturday Evening Post
10/26/2020
"The question of the Anti-Masonic Party’s legacy is anything but settled among political historians. Was it all a righteous democratic force for justice or a cynical conspiracy cult?"
