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: Harvard Gazette
9/21/2020
Harvard scholars including legal historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin describe the contributions the late Justice Ginsburg made to gender equality under law and to the legal profession.
Source: National History Center
9/21/2020
The National History Center's Washington History Seminar features Eric Weitz's "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States." Monday, September 21 at 4:30 Eastern.
Source: Reuters
9/19/2020
Russian professor Valery Solovei was arrested by Russian police at a march in Moscow to protest the arrest of a Russian mayor on murder charges that dissidents believe are politically motivated.
Source: The New Yorker
9/21/2020
Adam Gopnik considers new books about Lincoln by David S. Reynolds and Sidney Blumenthal that address the personality and governing of the 16th president.
Source: Washington Post
Kevin M. Levin, Lalane Schmidt, Kevin Gover and George Derek Musgrove are among the scholars offering perspective on how local community deliberations about problematic memorials should proceed.
Source: Texarkana Gazette
9/19/2020
A local professor specializing in medieval history likely never thought he'd experience unprecedented times that somehow resemble living through a plague.
Source: New York Times
9/16/2020
Digitally restored and widely available for the first time on Friday, “Palo Alto” captures a band hitting a high note, even as Monk battled personal and professional turmoil. Historian and Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley puts the gig in context.
Source: Hyperallergic
9/16/2020
The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.
Source: Harvard Kennedy School
9/15/2020
Harvard professor Alex Keyssar's book examines the persistence of the electoral college against rising calls for its abolition, and the influence of racism on the institution.
Source: Untapped New York
9/16/2020
Though authorities blamed Italian anarchists and other radical sympathizers for the destructive bombing, the case was never solved.
Source: National Parks Traveler
9/16/2020
Ed Bearss was one of the most important figures in the preservation of Civil War battlefields as sites for the American public to learn about history.
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
9/17/2020
The Brennan Center for Justice, the NYU Brademas Center, and NYU Votes sponsor an online discussion of voting rights featuring Emory University Professor Carol Anderson and Brennan Center Senior Fellow Theodore R. Johnson.
Source: TIME
https://time.com/5889051/history-curriculum-politi
by Olivia Waxman
"The teaching of U.S. History in public schools has always been political, and such concerns about whether curricula are “anti-American” are par for the course in moments of turmoil."
Source: CNN
9/16/2020
Historians and ethnic studies and legal scholars Natalia Molina, Alexandra Minna Stern, Alan Kraut and Maybell Romero comment on recent whistleblower allegations that ICE detention facilities forced migrant women to have hysterectomies. American racism has long showed itself around questions of who gets to control their own bodies.
Source: Belt
9/1/2020
"Berlin had a wall, but they took to it with hammers and pickaxes and tore it down. Cleveland and Chicago have walls too, but not the kind you can tear down with a pickaxe. They’ve been erected in places that are harder to reach than a river or a street: bitter, entrenched hearts and minds, both black and white, going back for generations, on either side of town."
Source: The Atlantic
9/16/2020
Historians Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta and Federico Finchelstein offer insight into how the political right has used rumors of communist plots to maintain power in Brazil, and why the country's political culture today is vulnerable to fake news and conspiracy theories.
Source: The Conversation
9/13/2020
by Aretha Phiri and Michelle M. Wright
"Black folks are astonishingly diverse in their cultures, histories, languages, religions, so no single definition of Blackness is going to fit everyone. When we fail to consider this, we effectively leave many Black people out of the conversation."
Source: New York Times
9/16/2020
A new book uses the life story of ASPCA founder Henry Bergh to illustrate the interdependence of humans and non-human animals in urban society.
Source: Public Books
9/16/2020
Georgetown University Historian Marcia Chatelain talks research, publishing, podcasting, and connecting with first-generation college students in a wide-ranging interview.
Source: Catholic University of America
Historian Patrick Scallen offers a virtual lecture on the transnational history of the Salvadoran community in greater Washington, D.C., presented by the history department of the Catholic University of America.
