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
10/17/2020
The term "white supremacy" has recently expanded to cover social phenomena beyond overt racial bigotry and discrimination. Historians and other scholars debate this usage.
Source: WBUR
10/16/2020
Historian Geraldo Cadava discusses why many Latinos have voted for Republicans and why many will again.
Source: American Historical Association
10/19/2020
This year’s finalists were selected from a field of over 1,400 entries by nearly 150 dedicated prize committee members.
Source: The New Yorker
10/19/2020
The literary scholar Saidiya Hartman's studies of the aftermath of slavery and the African diaspora point to the limits of archival records for understanding historical Black experience. Some historians question whether her methods fill archival gaps too creatively.
Source: CBC
10/17/2020
Canadian historian Charmaine Nelson says that many Canadians are overly accepting of the narrative of their nation as the endpoint of the Underground Railroad and unaware of the history of slavery in Canada. A new documentary by the famed actor highlights the need to push past comfortable understandings.
Source: WFSB TV
10/17/2020
Leah Wright Rigeur, Harry Truman Associate Professor of American History at Brandeis University discusses the state of voting rights in Connecticut and nationally.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/14/2020
Nathan D.B. Connolly and Harvey Kaye are among scholars asked to explain the stakes of the election for higher education.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio
10/17/2020
Historian Jeremi Suri suggests that the Trump administration has roused social movements that can revive American democracy.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
10/19/2020
by Matt Reed
In the wake of a political movement consciously designed to denigrate any expertise outside of making money, calming anxious trustees an uphill battle. But it’s necessary. Anyone with a grasp of history knows that there’s no appeasing a purity movement; one kill simply whets its appetite for the next one.
Source: Dumbarton Oaks Library
10/19/2020
Urban historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz discusses the impact of Latino immigrants on revived urban centers in the late 20th century, sponsored by the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library.
Source: New York Times
10/16/2020
by Jake Silverstein
Critics of the 1619 Project have identified changes and edits to the text of Nikole Hannah-Jones's article, which they claim were made surreptitiously to conceal errors. Editor Jake Silverstein addresses those criticisms.
Source: NPR
10/15/2020
NPR's Throughline launches its (mis)Representative Democracy series on the institutions of American elections with a focus on the Electoral College, featuring Alexander Keyssar, Carol Anderson and Akhil Reed Amar.
10/17/2020
by Bornet Family
Vaughn Davis Bornet, a frequent contributor to HNN, was writing history into his 103rd year.
Source: NorthJersey.com
10/16/2020
“Historically, most acts of racial terror have been enacted in rural communities, small towns or medium-sized cities,” said Khalil Muhammad, a history professor at Harvard University.
Source: The Bitter Southerner
10/14/2020
The Bitter Southerner magazine and PBS's The American Experience partner on a short film that examines the plot to murder the civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in 1964.
Source: Washington Post
10/15/2020
"As we spoke with historians and searched for the plague’s lasting marks, what stood out most were the similarities, 672 years apart."
Source: History Extra (BBC)
10/13/2020
A presidential historian discusses disputed elections in the past, and explains how they illuminate the possible paths of contestation for the 2020 results.
Source: Washington Post
10/12/2020
“The creation of this fellowship is an important opportunity to deepen our understanding of slavery’s enduring legacy in our nation’s capital,” said Stewart McLaurin, the association’s president.
Source: The New Yorker
10/12/2020
At its best, the "You're Wrong About" podcast transcends fact-checking and debunking to ask why so many of the stories we know are wrong, and why they persist nevertheless.
Source: NPR
10/12/2020
"This last spring, for the first time, I taught a class called Native Futures, and I thought that it would make sense to teach a class where Native people themselves not only are part of the past and the present, but they're going to be part of the future."
