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: JSTOR Daily
8/19/2020
Scholars like Philip Ziegler and Mark Senn have argued that the Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the first large-scale popular revolt in England.
Source: Washingtonian
8/24/2020
The Library of Congress's Web Department works to archive tweets and ephemeral websites that are significant to today's society so they are not lost to history.
Source: Vanity Fair
8/25/2020
by Eve L. Ewing
“How many unions are there where you’re assigned a gun and told you can shoot people?” Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner asked me during a phone interview. “I mean, they have superpowers. They are given superpowers over the lives and freedom of other people. Over the integrity of their bodies.”
Source: The Hill
8/21/2020
"Our society has never allowed African Americans to accumulate money and assets the way white families have,” Foner said.
Source: The New York Times
8/25/2020
A review of Harold Holzer's new book "The President vs. The Press."
Source: JSTOR Daily
8/24/2020
Women’s clubs were popular after the Civil War among white and Black women. But white clubwomen used their influence to ingrain racist curriculum in schools.
Source: Vanity Fair
8/24/2020
"A call for divestment involves an acknowledgment of the ways that museums rely on local police departments to do the work of mental health providers and emergency medical technicians, as well as the implicit ways contracts with police departments protect property over people," said MoMA curator Thomas J. Lax.
Source: The New Yorker
8/24/2020
Music historian Daniel Ira Goldmark counts more than a hundred Warner Bros. cartoons with Wagner on their soundtracks.
Source: Democracy Now!
8/24/2020
History professor Philip Rubio was a USPS mail carrier for 20 years. He believes that Postmaster DeJoy has "demoralized postal workers."
Source: WKOW
8/24/2020
"That 'I'm not alone' feeling is one of the biggest things that people get out of being in a protest," said historian Jonathan Pollack.
Source: KWTX
8/24/2020
Oveta Culp Hobby, a Killeen native, led the women’s Army corps during World War II.
Source: The Guardian
8/23/2020
Eric Foner: Rather than 2000, look to the election of 1876 to see what could happen if one party refuses to accept an election result.
Source: Associated Press
8/23/2020
A new documentary short highlights the journalistic and political career of Charlotta Bass, the Progressive Party candidate for Vice President in 1952.
Source: New York Times
8/23/2020
by Jon Meacham
Edward Alfred Pollard launched the "Lost Cause" mythology with an 1866 book whose legacy has endured as an emphatic defense of white supremacy.
Source: WESA
8/17/2020
Postal historian Richard John says that the USPS is not a business and should be treated as a public resource.
Source: New York Times
8/20/2020
After enduring internment, Japanese Americans were forced to resettle in a changed society with a dire housing shortage. The government's response was grossly inadequate.
Source: New York Times
8/24/2020
A recent study has examined a historical connection between racist redlining practices in urban planning and heat-trapping environments in present-day urban neighborhoods.
Source: JSTOR Daily
8/21/2020
The FBI recently tweeted out its archival copy of the notorious antisemitic conspiracy tract "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" without any context or explanation. Here's where it came from and a summary of its influence.
Source: New York Times
8/19/2020
A contemporary artist is recreating the final campaign of suffrage activist Inez Milholland through historical ephemera, primary documents, and photographic reenactments.
Source: The New York Times
8/18/2020
'Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980' is available now.
