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
10/10/2020
No attorney general since John N. Mitchell, who served Mr. Nixon and brought conspiracy charges against critics of the Vietnam War, bent the Justice Department more in a president’s direction than William Barr.
Source: American Historical Association
10/13/2020
In response to the president’s recent executive order prohibiting the inclusion of “divisive concepts” in employee training sessions, the AHA has issued a statement urging the retraction of the order because it is “neither necessary nor useful.”
Source: Smithsonian
10/5/2020
Very few people are aware that there was once a sizeable population of American Indians, the Lumbee tribe, who lived in the neighborhoods of Upper Fells Point and Washington Hill.
Source: Vox
10/5/2020
West German society intially sought to repress evidence of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes, preserving a myth that German civilians were also victims. The work of owning up to those crimes took decades and encountered bitter resistance.
Source: NPR
10/9/2020
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is among the experts who argue that a belief in white supremacy connects the dots of Trump's recent declarations on subjects ranging from history to genetics to his own health.
Source: Paris Review
10/5/2020
by Imani Perry
Wideman's account of events leading to the bombing of MOVE by Philadelphia police "is not just a map of the city but of the nation and our collective condition."
Source: Smithsonian
10/8/2020
Lindsay Chervinsky announces a new collaborative podast "The Past, The Promise, The Presidency" to offer an accessible understanding of racism and the presidency.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
10/9/2020
Although he had dogs ranging from a Doberman pinscher to a cocker spaniel, young Newt Gingrich took particular delight in feeding hard-boiled eggs to his extensive collection of snakes. Julian Zelizer's new book on the Republican Revolution examines his appetite for conflict and political treachery.
Source: ABC News
10/6/2020
“A mass casualty event like the Oklahoma City bombing is … meant to provoke further violence," noted Kathleen Belew, a University of Chicago historian.
Source: Boston Review
10/7//2020
by Robin D.G. Kelley
Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.
Source: Los Angeles Times
10/6/2020
"Of this year’s 21 fellows across the arts, education, science, media, law and environmental studies, Molina’s work on race, gender, culture and citizenship is particularly timely, essentially at the heart of the national conversation as America undergoes a reckoning over systemic racism and grapples with questions of equity, inclusion and identity."
Source: NPR
10/7/2020
Historian Julie Reed (Cherokee Nation) discusses the 1835 Treaty of New Echota in the context of the escalation of indigenous removal from the southeastern United States.
Source: Boston Globe
10/6/2020
If anyone needed confirmation, a panel of historians agrees that this year is... special. No one even has the bandwidth to discuss Murder Hornets anymore.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
10/5/2020
Historian of Germany Anne Berg is among scholars warning that the combination of armed right wing groups and Donald Trump's suggestions that force may be needed to prevent fraudulent voting indicate a dangerous moment for democracy.
Source: The Progressive
10/5/2020
Historian Chris West notes that “driving in a racist society” persists as a “gut-wrenching horror" in a new PBS documentary "Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America."
Source: New York Times
10/6/2020
A new book demonstrates that the United States and western allies attempted to thwart the Bolshevik revolution and actually started the Cold War with an ill-fated 1918 invasion of Russia, but is on more speculative ground tracing an assassination attempt against Lenin to the US.
Source: Zocálo Public Square
10/6/2020
Historian Lon Kurashige joins US Senator Mazie Hirono and other guests to discuss rising racism against Asian Americans and Asians in America.
Source: National Book Foundation
10/6/2020
The National Book Foundation presents a discussion with Ibram X. Kendi, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the state of Black politics before the 2020 election and what's likely to follow.
Source: Keeping Democracy Alive
10/2/2020
American Studies scholar Ben Railton discusses his upcoming book "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism" and the political hijacking of the patriotic ideal.
Source: New York Times
10/6/2020
University of Southern California historian Natalia Molina is among the 2020 awardees of the MacArthur Foundation's prestigious award in recognition of her research on racism, immigration and American citizenship.
