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: CNN
8/18/2020
Susan B. Anthony was found guilty for voting in 1872. According to historians Deborah Hughes and Ann Gordon, Anthony "absolutely" did not want to be pardonned.
Source: Washington Post
8/18/2020
Historian Ann Gordon, who has edited the papers of Susan B. Anthony, says that Trump's pardon is an especially misguided example of today's politicians trying to use Anthony's legacy for their own purposes.
Source: WAMU
8/18/2020
Historians Adele Logan Alexander and Lisa Tetrault discuss the complicated history of women's suffrage including racial divisions in the movement.
Source: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
8/17/2020
“You’re robbing an entire nation of people of their history by pretending Croatoan is a mystery on a tree,” said Scott Dawson.
Source: Roanoke (VA) Times
8/18/2020
Christine Henry, an assistant professor of historic preservation at UMW, will contribute to this project with her fall semester upper level seminar “Diversity in Historic Preservation.”
Source: Politico
8/13/2020
If the USPS slows down, mail-in ballots won’t be the only collateral damage, says historian Philip Rubio.
Source: The New York Times
8/19/2020
In 1973, the House Armed Services Committe, led by a segregationist, believed that "reforms were the problem" in the wake of racial strife, notes Navy historian John Sherwood.
Source: Black Perspectives
8/19/2020
Mike Jirik reviews historian Kellie Carter Jackson’s new book, "Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence."
Source: Black Perspectives
8/20/2020
"'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North' is a major milestone in the growing historical literature on racial discrimination and the civil rights struggle outside the South," writes Joshua Clark Davis.
Source: Yale News
8/18/2020
Trachtenberg is best known as one of the most distinguished and authoritative interpreters of what photographers have shown about history through the camera lens.
Source: New York Times
8/14/2020
Many of the women who fought for representation were rebels living nonnormative, queer lives.
Source: The New York Times
8/18/2020
Ph.D. candidate in history Jemar Tisby reviews "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity."
Source: Greenville (SC) Post and Courier
8/17/2020
“My research shows that Black lives hardly mattered at all at Clemson until after desegregation, and the discovery we made in this burial ground tells me that Black deaths mattered even less,” Dr. Rhondda Thomas said Monday. “The thing that I found was that Black labor mattered the most on this land where Clemson was built.”
Source: JSTOR Daily
8/18/2020
The effort to secure and refine aluminum ore for war materiel was environmentally damaging and previews the globalized impact of commodity supply chains.
Source: The New York Times
8/17/2020
A report from the Transition Integrity Project predicts that, come November, Trump “is likely to contest the result by both legal and extralegal means.”
Source: Daily Beast
7/27/2020
“The Birth of a Nation” was based on a Kappa Alpha member’s book. The frat—which still hails Robert E. Lee as its “spiritual founder”—praised the film for showing its Klan ties.
Source: Washington Post
8/14/2020
D.C.'s Black Lives Matter protests taught historian Graham H. Cornwell and his son that the Civil War cannot be studied in abstraction.
Source: Black Perspectives
8/18/2020
A review of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s new book "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow."
Source: Spectrum News
8/17/2020
"It shouldn't have taken so many infections," said UNC-CH history professor Jay Smith.
Source: CNN
8/17/2020
"Just because we are in England … that's not an excuse to be able to commemorate individuals who were involved in keeping other people in chains," said historian Laurence Westgaph.
