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: Mother Jones
10/13/2020
"There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."
Source: History.com
10/5/2020
Black Americans in the 1918 flu pandemic were anomalously less likely to catch the flu, but died disproportionately from it because of segregated medicine.
Source: The Atlantic
10/15/2020
A new biography of Malcolm X sets his political thought in the context of the midcentury Black communities where he lived and how his Black contemporaries saw him.
Source: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
10/15/2020
The Urban History Association announces its annual awards for best book, best journal article, and best dissertation.
Source: National History Center
10/14/2020
Julia Rose Kraut's "Threat of Dissent" examines major court decisions and legislation affecting the deportation of political radicals in the face of the First Amendment and America's stated ideals, while showing the lives of the people involved. She addressed the National History Center's Washington History Seminar this October.
Source: Washington Post
10/12/2020
by Valerie Strauss
The Nebraska Senator, who holds a PhD in US history, spoke of governing norms above politics and got harsh criticism online.
Source: History.com
10/9/2020
Hammurabi's governing strategies of building support through public works, pursuing information, and self-promotion are not unfamiliar to contemporary politics.
Source: The New Republic
10/13/2020
by Patrick Blanchfield
In a United States wracked by virus, mounting climate change, and ruthless corporate pillaging and governmental deregulation, the lessons from one tiny New Hampshire town are stark indeed. Plus, bears.
Source: Academe Blog
10/13/2020
by Hank Reichman
Experience suggests that when institutions issue these kinds of condemnatory statements the harassers are only encouraged to push harder, says Hank Reichman, Chair of the American Association of Univrersity Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
Source: Orange County Register
10/9/2020
A new digital project by Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan maps out places listed in gay travel guides from the 1960s to the present, giving new insight into how gay people outside of tolerant cities created social spaces.
Source: Washington Decoded
10/13/2020
by Sheldon M. Stern
As the anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis approaches, longtime JFK Library historian Sheldon Stern reviews Theodore Voorhees Jr.'s new book, which argues that Kennedy and Kruschev each assumed personal control of negotiations in a way that rendered threats of war from hawkish subordinates all bark and no bite.
Source: Washington Post
10/9/2020
Claire Bond Potter and Allison K. Lange weigh in on the long history of the term "likability" as a limit to women's political participation and power.
Source: The Guardian
10/8/2020
Hájková, who is researching the queer history of the Holocaust, said testimonies by survivors of the camps and legal documents from the guard’s trial led her to conclude that the two women might have had a lesbian relationship, either coercive or consensual. However, she acknowledged that there was no definite proof of this.
Source: Washington Post
10/13/2020
Interviewing project lead Nikole Hannah-Jones and numerous supporters and detractors, Sarah Ellison explores why the 1619 project, more than a year after its publication, is still making people argue about history.
Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
10/6/2020
Historian Tracy E. K'Meyer says that, despite the mutual misgivings of older and younger activists, Louisville's legacy of civil rights protests in the 1960s is highly influential today as activists seek justice and policing reform in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor.
Source: New York Review of Books
10/7/2020
Amid condemnation of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, much less attention is being paid to the case of Yuri Dmitriev, a tenacious researcher and activist who campaigned to create a memorial to the victims of Stalinist terror in Karelia, a province in Russia’s far northwest, bordering Finland.
Source: Washington Post
10/8/2020
Lincoln delayed in announcing a replacement to Chief Justice Roger Taney in large part because the leaving the appointment unresolved would help preserve his fragile coalition through the election, especially by inducing potential rivals to campaign for him.
Source: New York Times
10/6/2020
David Michaelis's new biography is an excellent resource for those unfamiliar with the life and work of Eleanor Roosevelt and her political partnership with FDR.
Source: TIME
10/9/2020
Historian Heather Ann Thompson says that the use of violence against peaceable protest has been historically common in the United States, though access to military weaponry by civilian police departments is a new factor.
Source: The New Yorker
10/5/2020
"There should, it seems, be a useful lesson to be learned from that frantic afternoon. But what, in God’s name, is it?"
