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: Harvard Gazette
6/19/2020
Legal scholar and historian Annette Gordon-Reed puts the push to remove Confederate statues in context.
Source: Florida State University News
6/22/2020
"Jim used to laugh that students would approach him to say that he’d taught their parents, to which Jim would reply, ‘and how’s your grandmother/grandfather, whom I also taught?’"
Source: San Francisco State University
6/22/2020
The historian and author of “The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History” answers questions about the past, present and future of LGBT pride parades.
Source: USA Today
6/21/2020
The biographer and intellectual historian was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in 2007 for William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism.
Source: France 24
6/21/2020
Hebrew University president Asher Cohen hailed Sternhell, a professor emeritus there who was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for political science in 2008, as "among the most important researchers" to emerge from the institution.
Source: New York Times
6/21/2020
Her writing paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history.
Source: Champaign (IL) News-Gazette
6/21/2020
University of Illinois professor Peter Fritzche has written a recent book on the first 100 days of the Third Reich which considers the balance of Hitler's influence and prevailing currents of antisemitism and authoritarianism in the German public.
Source: American Constitution Center
6/22/2020
TODAY join a Zoom webinar featuring Joanne Freemand and Edward Ayers on Congressional responses to crisis.
Source: ProPublica
6/19/2020
Schools often teach the Civil War in terms of “free states” and “slave states.” Illinois complicates those definitions. We spoke with a historian and high school teacher about slavery’s legacy in Illinois.
Source: NBC News
6/21/2020
Geoff Ward, Cameron McWhirter and Saje Mathieu examine the parallels between the notorious "Red Summer" of 1919 and the present.
Source: CNN
6/21/2020
Douglas Brinkley comments on Trump's political strategy on CNN.
Source: Public Books
6/19/2020
by Jeff Sparrow
As Australia considers government support to artistic workers inspired by the US New Deal, important differences in context should be observed.
Source: New York Review of Books
7/2/2020
by Brenda Wineapple
Wendell Bird argues that the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were used more broadly than historians have recognized, and reflect a shakier foundation of free speech in the early Republic.
Source: Wolfson History Prize
6/15/2020
David Abulafia's book tells the global history of humanity through its relationship to the oceans.
Source: National History Center
6/12/2020
The National History Center event was moderated by Eric Arnesen and featured historians Chad Williams (Brandeis), Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown), Michael Flamm (Ohio Wesleyan), Cheryl Greenberg (Trinity), and Thomas Sugrue (New York University).
Source: Frank Interviews
6/18/2020
"I've been very fortunate in choosing the right topic."
Source: The Guardian
6/16/2020
According to New York University historian Timothy Naftali, Trump's mimicry of Nixon's '68 campaign is "based upon a fundamental misreading of history."
Source: PolitiFact
6/16/2020
We wondered why the bases have these names in the first place, so we checked with eight military historians.
Source: History Extra (BBC)
6/16/2020
In this podcast, Kevin Gaines speaks with History Extra on the history of the civil rights movement, racial tensions in America, and the history behind the police violence of recent weeks.
Source: Slate
6/17/2020
He wore a suit, went on talk shows, and tried to mimic the push for black civil rights.
