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: Bill Moyers
9/1/2020
HNN's Features Editor Robin Lindley was interviewed by Nibir K. Ghosh about the need for historical understanding today.
Source: Washingtonian
9/1/2020
A commission convened by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser recommends that the District rename many schools and city facilities that honor historical figures associated with slavery and racism, and asks the city government to pressure the federal government to do the same with federal properties in the district.
Source: Harvard Bookstore
9/4/2020
The Harvard bookstore sponsors a virtual event featuring Martha S. Jones discussing her new book "Vanguard" and the role of Black women in securing political equality. Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the conversation.
Source: Washington Post
9/1/2020
Historians John Barry and Howard Markel are among the medical and social science experts who explain that the 1918 pandemic didn't "end" so much as endure in an era of recurrent viral pandemics.
Source: New York Times
8/25/2020
Although the Soviet Union succeeded in testing a hydrogen bomb more than three times more powerful than the largest U.S.-tested weapon, most military leaders in the cold war sought to make the weapons smaller for strategic reasons. Recently declassified Soviet video shows the test.
Source: NPR
8/28/2020
Historian Lorena Oropeza discusses the Chicano Moratorium protests against the war in Vietnam and the denial of opportunity to ethnic Mexican people in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Source: Labor and Working Class History Association
8/31/2020
Historian Jacob Remes discusses the new book "An Intimate Economy" with author Alexandra Finley.
Source: New York Times
9/1/2020
Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer, along with political scientists William Howell and Terry M. Moe, offer context for growing concerns about the power of the Presidency.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/1/2020
Brandon Byrd argues that researching the African American intellectual tradition requires methodological flexibility and innovation to understand how Black thinkers have worked to produce ideas while being excluded from the spaces where intellectual work has typically been done.
Source: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
9/2/2020
The Urban History Association is preparing to showcase the best blogging by grad students. Check in next week to read.
Source: Cosmopolitan
8/28/2020
Many news outlets wrongly reported that John Lewis was the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This ignores the Black women who worked to organize the march and fought for even a few words at the microphone.
Source: New York Times
9/1/2020
Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery and Lauren McMillan discuss the evidence behind a new book's claim that the "lost" inhabitants of the Roanoke colony were absorbed by the Croatoan indigenous people of the area.
Source: David Harvey
9/3/2020
Political theorists David Harvey and David Graeber discuss Graeber's book "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2012.
Source: Chattanooga Times-Free Press
9/2/2020
A Dalton State (GA) history professor regrets his word choice in a series of tweets that was publicized by an anonymous user who sought disciplinary action by the college. Seth Weitz insists that he teaches history in the classroom, which involves challenging beliefs held by many of his students.
Source: Broadway World
8/31/2020
PBS will air a historical documentary examining the issue of mobility and freedom to travel as aspects of American racism.
Source: New York Times
9/2/2020
by Tom Hanks
The actor Tom Hanks reflects on the false narrative of closure of World War II. The forces unleashed by war and the struggle to reshape the world resonate today.
Source: BBC
9/3/2020
Anthropologist David Graeber, whose works included the influential book Debt: The First 5,000 Years has recently passed away. This 1996 BBC interview explores the terrain of that book and the significance of debt as a political force.
Source: Washington Post
9/2/2020
Historians Annette Gordon-Reed, Alexis Coe, and Seth Bruggeman describe a way forward out of the controversy over memorials to slaveholding American leaders.
Source: Forbes
9/1/2020
Historian Marcia Chatelain's book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" is key background to a discussion of a recent lawsuit filed against McDonalds by Black franchise owners, alleging the corporation discriminated against them in allocating franchise locations.
Source: Herald-Mail Media (From Los Angeles Times)
8/31/2020
At the 50th anniversary of the 2nd Chicano Moratorium protest against the Vietnam War, Mexican American veterans and historians reflect on how the war and the protests affected Mexican Americans.
