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: The Nation
8/25/2020
by Marcia Chatelain
"As Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows in Race for Profit, we are also only beginning to reckon with the complex network of bankers, real estate agents, and federal agencies that used the rhetoric of equality to obscure a set of race-to-the-bottom schemes that sought to extract as much wealth as possible from poor Black Americans."
Source: SpeakOut: The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture
8/26/2020
HNN contributor James Loewen and David Pilgrim will discuss the politics and history of mascots, memorials, and everyday symbols.
Source: American Historical Association
8/26/2020
The bibliography includes commentary and publications by historians in both scholarly and popular periodical literature; recorded lectures and webcasts; and digitized primary source materials from past epidemics and pandemics.
Source: Tacoma News Tribune
8/26/2020
Managing director of the Tacoma Historical Society Michael Lafreniere never expected to unearth a glimpse into the Klan’s history in Washington state, and more particularly Tacoma.
Source: Washington Post
8/27/2020
Historian Clayborne Carson notes that this incident marked a shift in the nature of racist backlash during the sit-in movement.
Source: Times of Israel
8/27/2020
In new book ‘Twilight of Democracy,’ Anne Applebaum describes how her former friends helped bring about the Trump era, Brexit, and authoritarian governments in Poland and Hungary.
Source: ColorLines
8/26/2020
Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another rationale.
Source: TCU 360
8/26/2020
“We want to provide critical perspective, we want to deepen understanding so that we can really take on this idea of reconciliation and healing,” said RRI chair Frederick Gooding Jr.
Source: NPR
8/26/2020
Author Rick Perlstein chronicles the events that propelled Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980. He says that a certain "viciousness" has always been part of the conservative Republican coalition.
Source: WUNC
8/26/2020
Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes talk about watching films that gloss over the darker parts of Southern history, but they also explore how more contemporary films resonate with viewers as true to their own experiences.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/27/2020
When navigating online education, faculty should stray away from traditional exams and opt for innovative assignments that will engage students rather than stress them out.
Source: The New Yorker
8/26/2020
by Nicholas Lemann
Fifteen years ago, New Orleans was nearly destroyed. A new book by Tulane historian Andy Horowitz suggests that the cause was decades of bad policy—and that nothing has changed.
Source: The Metropole
8/26/2020
Alex Sayf Cummings reviews Grace Elizabeth Hale's "Cool Town" on the rise of 1980s alternative culture in Athens, Georgia, for the blog of the Urban History Association.
Source: The Atlantic
8/25/2020
Historian Johann N. Neem, an immigrant from India, decries the white supremacy unleashed by Trump but questions whether trendy antiracism discourse is encouraging white progressives to uphold the ideal of an America open to all in an interview.
Source: The New Yorker
8/21/2020
In 1876 norms governing fair elections broke down beyond the ability of the courts to resolve. The partisan deadlock that ensued was resolved with political dealmaking that relegated Black Americans to second-class citizenship for a century. Anyone who fears a repeat of the 2000 election had better prepare for a repeat of 1876.
Source: Washington Post
8/21/2020
Richard John, Joseph Adelman, Winifred Gallagher and Devin Leonard offer insight into how Ben Franklin committed to innovation and service improvement to build up the colonial postal service and how the service became an institution tying the new nation together.
Source: Mother Jones
8/19/2020
Postal historian Philip Rubio explains that the agency has never been completely separate from politics, though legislation passed in 1970 was supposed to cement the agency's independence.
Source: Washington Post
8/21/2020
“It’s the dumbest thing in the world for Maryland, of all states, to have a racist, secessionist song,” Congressman Jamie Raskin said. “We were with the Union."
Source: Washington Post
8/21/2020
Historian Grace Elizabeth Hale reflects on a changing Georgia, where the diverse community of Stone Mountain sits just outside a park housing a prominent Confederate memorial.
Source: Black Perspectives
8/19/2020
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum in honor of Black August on the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition organized by incarcerated writer, activist and intellectual Stephen Wilson and historian and professor Garrett Felber.
