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
10/26/2020
Gettysburg's symbolic importance in the divided America of 2020 is not always rooted in the significance of the 1863 battle for the defeat of the Confederacy.
Source: Public Books
10/23/2020
"The consensus intellectuals of the ’50s plucked the term from 19th-century obscurity and redefined it. It is their redefinition that is still with us today."
Source: Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
10/24/2020
Jessie Serfilippi of the Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site examines Alexander Hamilton's relationship to slavery and challenges his image as a proto-abolitionist.
Source: Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
Regardless of the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court has already entered a new era. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Heather Cox Richardson for a big-picture conversation about what that means: minority rule and the court’s role, past and present, in changing visions of democracy.
Source: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
10/26/2020
This annual conference works to integrate both scholars and archives in Cuba to research on the Atlantic slave trade.
Source: Library Company of Philadelphia
10/26/2020
Historians Jim Downs, Carol Anderson and Kevin Kruse discuss voter suppression in a virtual event hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia, Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM.
Source: Woodrow Wilson Center
10/23/2020
Speaker Ellen DuBois will be joined by panelists Kimberly A. Hamlin and Marcia Chatelain to discuss the history of Woman Suffrage for the Washington History Seminar, hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the National History Center.
Source: The Atlantic
10/22/2020
by Adam Serwer
Historian Lawrence Goldstone supports the argument that today's Roberts Court is continuing the jurisprudence of the post-Reconstruction era by denying the racism of restrictions on voting even as nonwhite voters are disenfranchised.
Source: George Washington University Textile Museum
10/23/2020
The George Washington DC Mondays series supports discussion with local authors and historians about the DC region.
Source: Blooberg CityLab
10/21/2020
Land use planners in unlikely places-the Texas suburbs--are revisiting the idea of gridded street plans as solutions for car dependence and traffic.
Source: PBS
10/20/2020
Jelani Cobb investigates the Wisconsin primary election as a lens onto the ongoing struggle to protect voting rights.
Source: Democracy Now!
10/20/2020
A new Frontline documentary on Wisconsin's 2020 primary election illuminates the nature of current attacks on voting rights and showcases the national nature of the ongoing battle to secure the ballot.
Source: Merrittocracy with Keri Leigh Merritt
10/19/2020
Historian Carol Anderson joins Merrittocracy host Keri Leigh Merritt to discus Trump, racism, and the state of democracy leading up to the 2020 election.
Source: Reuters
10/19/2020
An organization advocating for the teaching of Black history in British schools has organized walking tours demonstrating the degree to which the city's financial and political institutions were tied to slavery.
Source: The City
10/20/2020
St. John’s University students posted adjunct professor Richard Taylor’s police complaint history after what they called a racist lesson. The school suspended him — fueling cops’ latest argument for keeping their records under wrap.
Source: KERA
10/21/2020
“I just wish I had become infamous for a more clever tweet,” Burnett said. “I have plenty of those.”
Source: American Historical Association
10/21/2020
Join an AHA sponsored webinar on the challenges facing graduate teaching assistants in remote, hybrid, and in-person classes during COVID. October 22, 2:00 PM Eastern
Source: Boston Review
10/19/2020
by Sam Lebovic
A review of Stephen Wertheim's "Tomorrow, The World" concludes the new book shows how American military supremacy moved in a generation from a novel idea to embedded common sense, and demands rethinking the resources spent to maintain it.
Source: American Historical Association
10/20/2020
"We trust that Collin College will respect and protect Dr. Burnett’s rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution."--Jim Grossman, AHA Executive Director
Source: NPR
10/19/2020
H.W. Brands discusses his new book "The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom" with NPR's Fresh Air.
