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: Washington Post
6/9/2020
by Valerie Strauss
With police reform front and center in the national debate, it’s a good time to learn about the history of policing in the United States.
Source: The Guardian
6/10/2020
Inaction over figures such as Colston had bred anger that would be felt “all over Britain”, said Andrea Livesey, a historian specialising in the study of slavery and its legacies and who described the events in Bristol as “wholly justified”.
Source: Baltimore Sun
6/11/2020
Robert Forster, who passed away May 13, is remembered as a rigorous scholar and an organized, supportive teacher.
Source: Washington Post
6/11/2020
CeLillianne Green, author and historian, argues that Trump's plan to hold a rally on the June 19th--the anniversary of emancipation in Texas--just steps from the site of one of the nation's worst episodes of white supremacist terrorism is too much to take.
Source: National Review
6/10/2020
Retired history professor David Kaiser believes that faculty's tendency toward "politically correct" material causes students to lose interest.
Source: CBS Sports
6/7/2020
Nusbaum's book, released in March, details the human cost of the stadium's construction.
Source: Bill Moyers
6/5/2020
“All this open talk by Trump of dominance is pretty undisguised fascism," said Bernard Weisberger, a historian who lived through the rises of Hitler and Mussolini.
Source: TIME
6/9/2020
For some, they’ve symbolized heritage, but for many, many others, the statues have been a symbol of past and present racism in the U.S. Calls to remove them came once again at the forefront as thousands of people protest police brutality after the officer-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Source: Current Affairs
6/9/2020
Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity examines the ways in which capitalism, despite its purported scientific rationality, operates as a perverse kind of religion.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
6/9/2020
The black Chicago teenager’s lynching in 1955 ignited a civil rights movement. Historians say the Minneapolis man’s killing by a now-fired Minneapolis cop could do the same.
Source: Washington Post
6/5/2020
Historians Michael Beschloss, David Garrow, H.W. Brands, Max J. Skidmore and David Greenberg argue that LBJ is in fact second to Lincoln in this regard.
Source: Washington Post
6/5/2020
In their new book, Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch provide a remarkable and often riveting account of an alleged plot to kill Lincoln in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration in Washington in February 1861.
Source: CommonWealth
6/7/2020
Certain moments “hit a collective nerve,” said historian Heather Ann Thompson.
Source: WAMU
6/5/2020
In a very prescient interview from 2006, Foner argues that the failed promises of Reconstruction reverberate today.
Source: NBC News
6/6/2020
British and American historians objected to the White House's comparison of Trump's leadership to Churchill's.
Source: Vox
6/6/2020
“The problem is the way policing was built,” historian Khalil Muhammad says.
Source: History.com
6/5/2020
Scholars Nikki Jones, Michael Flamm, and Dominic Capeci describe what exactly unfolded during these riots, what motivated them, and what they represented.
Source: CityLab
6/5/2020
There’s a dissonance, locals say, between Minneapolis' progressive rhetoric and the reality of how people of different races experience completely different cities. Read how history professor William D. Green and others have experienced these divides, and how they propose to bridge them.
Source: The New York Times
6/9/2020
Marc Bloch's book "Strange Defeat," written in 1940 about France’s defeat in World War II, has taken on a curious resonance as the country gazes across the border at Germany and asks why it has weathered the pandemic better.
Source: CNN
6/4/2020
Historians David K. Johnston and Kassia St. Clair comment on the social and technological changes that helped make the color a secret, then open, political symbol.
