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: South Bay (CA) Daily Breeze
8/9/2020
Alison Rose Jefferson had been scheduled to brief the Manhattan Beach City Council about how to commemorate a stretch of beach historically used by Black Californians barred from other parts of the coastline. Her participation ended under disuputed circumstances.
Source: History.com
8/5/2020
“The experience was very dispiriting for a lot of Black soldiers,” says Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College and author of "Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers."
Source: New York Times
8/5/2020
The library, in Springfield, Ill., said Black community leaders who previewed it feared parts of the traveling exhibition, created 15 years ago, were outdated and lacked context.
Source: New York Times
8/6/2020
by Lawrence Roberts
The antiwar movement had already helped turn public opinion against Mr. Nixon’s conduct of the war. He was determined to deny activists a victory that could cause further political damage.
Source: Irish Times
8/4/2020
‘His extraordinary impact reflects the exceptional political leader and person he was.’
Source: Jacobin
8/4/2020
Many modern open container laws derive from previous “public drunkenness” and “vagrancy” ordinances that criminalized not just alcoholism, but also poverty and homelessness.
Source: Politico
8/6/2020
Suburbs are getting more diverse, but that doesn't mean they’re woke. Historian Thomas Sugrue says if you want to understand where American politics is going, look how suburban whites are sorting themselves out.
Source: The New Republic
8/6/2020
They’re cheap, mass produced, and celebrate the Jim Crow South. So why do conservatives persist in calling them art?
Source: Forbes
8/5/2020
New digital collection tells the untold stories of Black women’s vital role in the suffrage movement.
Source: Stars and Stripes
8/4/2020
Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., author and blogger on atomic bomb history, said time has smoothed the wrinkles and simplified the facts that are often taught about the first and, so far, only wartime use of atomic weapons.
Source: National Security Archive
8/4/2020
Extensive Compilation of Primary Source Documents Explores Manhattan Project, Eisenhower’s Early Misgivings about First Nuclear Use, Curtis LeMay and the Firebombing of Tokyo, Debates over Japanese Surrender Terms, Atomic Targeting Decisions, and Lagging Awareness of Radiation Effects
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
8/3/2020
A European's belief that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a military necessity that ultimately saved lives correlates with less acceptance of nuclear disarmament. History is important for citizens' ability to judge issues related to the dangers of nuclear weapons.
Source: WBUR
8/4/2020
Julian Zelizer discusses the prospects of a major surprise announcement from the administration before Election Day.
Source: New York Times
8/5/2020
Allan Lichtman describes polls as "snapshots" which are fairly useless for predicting the outcome compared to stable "keys" reflecting how the President's party is perceived to be governing. Watch the video (if you dare) to see his 2020 prediction.
Source: CNBC
8/5/2020
Polls are “snapshots in time,” Allan Lichtman said. “None of this in the end has any impact whatsoever on the outcome of a presidential election.”
Source: Washington Post
8/5/2020
The Marshall Islands were exposed to the daily equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima-sized explosions between 1946 and 1958, if the impact were spread evenly.
Source: New York Times
7/31/2020
“Caste” lands so firmly because the historian, the sociologist and the reporter are not at war with the essayist and the critic inside her.
Source: The Metropole
8/5/2020
"Different sorts of urban disasters—terrorist attacks, floods, earthquakes, diseases—have elicited different responses, policy prescriptions, and behaviors." A bibliographical essay explains what cities have done and how historians have interpreted it.
Source: New York Times
8/4/2020
Drs. Robert Pianta and Myra Jones-Taylor expressed hope that parents’ pandemic experiences of working while juggling care and education will lead to a newfound appreciation for both elements, and the modern economy’s reliance on them.
Source: Vox
8/4/2020
Keisha N. Blain provides historical context for the high visibility of white moms in Portland, and the problems this posed for the city's protest movements.
