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: Boston Review
9/30/2020
A reviewer of Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" stresses that Donald Trump today presides over a corporate oligarchy that Reaganism helped build by drawing new, politically active corporate lobbyists into coalition with social conservatives.
Source: New York Times
9/22/2020
A new book addresses the glaring oversight of sexual assault and abuse of women as an aspect of war and conflict.
Source: JSTOR Daily
9/28/2020
Political forces pushing for mass incarceration have been closely connected to those restricting the power of labor and pressing to keep wages low.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
9/29/2020
Washington and Lee University offered a strong defense of its faculty when they were vilified in right-wing media and received threats and online abuse.
Source: New York Magazine
9/27/2020
Leading academic scholars suggest parallels from American and world history for the present situation.
Source: New York Times
9/28/2020
“Historians have different views on taking down statues,” said Gregory Downs, a professor at the University of California, Davis, and one of the organizers. “But that debate doesn’t really capture what historians do, which is to bring more history.”
Source: Golf Digest
9/29/2020
Historian Adam Domby comments on pressures faced by many golf courses in the South to change their names to remove Confederate associations (he's in favor).
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/28/2020
Debates catalyzed by a policy statement on the police killing of George Floyd illuminated political and generational rifts in the Puerto Rican Studies Association and led to a turnover of leadership.
Source: YouTube
9/29/2020
by Katie Hemphill
Historian Katie Hemphill's recent crash course in video editing for Zoom teaching let her fulfill a longtime goal: set the bawdiest Civil War letters she found in her research to the stirring sounds of documentary music. Content Warning: Cuss Words.
Source: WBUR
9/29/2020
Historian Keisha Blain joins "On Point" to discuss the decision not to charge most of the police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor during a botched search warrant at her residence.
Source: New York Times
9/29/2020
As primary education has gone remote for another term, women professors with children argue that uneven distribution of domestic labor means their scholarly work is at a disadvantage compared to male and childless colleagues. "“I don’t need a clock extension,” Dr. Magdalena Osburn said. “I need an acknowledgment that this year is trash.”
Source: Washington Post
9/26/2020
by Gillian Brockell
Ken Burns's Civil War documentary series sparked tremendous interest in history, but the series has a big Shelby Foote problem.
Source: New York Times
9/27/2020
Indigenous groups in the Southwest are imbuing their activism this year with commemorations of the 340-year-old Pueblo Revolt, one of Spain’s bloodiest defeats in its colonial empire.
Source: Outside
9/28/2020
Governments have recently addressed the problem of memorializing the Confederacy on public land. Why should monuments in cemeteries like Arlington or on Civil War battlefields be treated differently?
Source: San Antonio Express-News
9/22/2020
Alonso Perales may be one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the 20th century who’s still relatively unknown; historian Cynthia Orozco hopes to correct that.
Source: JSTOR Daily
9/24/2020
McCarthyite attacks on the political left also pushed women out of policymaking positions in the federal government, the historian Landon Storrs argues.
Source: The New Republic
9/24/2020
Lisa Levenstein's book assesses a shift in the women's movement in the 1990s into digital spaces and professionalized issue organizations. A reviewer considers what that shift enabled women to achieve and what it cost.
Source: The Hill
9/23/2020
Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and Jacobin contributor Matt Karp said on Hill TV’s “Rising” Wednesday that Democrats should learn from former President Abraham Lincoln to work around a conservative-majority Supreme Court.
Source: her
9/23/2020
Documentarian Ciara Hyland draws on historical research to examine the suppressed stories of sexual violence against women that pervaded all sides of the Irish war for independence.
Source: Washington Post
9/24/2020
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Media Studies scholar Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.
