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: TIME
5/22/2020
"What I’m trying to do in this book is to turn this narrative around, to show that actually, over thousands of years, people have actually evolved to be friendly," says Bregman.
Source: New York Times
5/22/2020
Recent books highlight the vast gap between perceptions and reality in warfare and foreground the gap between people who call for war and who fight it.
Source: Washington Post
5/24/2020
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust offers her insight on mourning and redemption.
Source: ABC (Australia)
5/25/2020
Thirty years ago, Stephen J. Pyne wrote the definitive history of fire in Australia and has just released an updated version of his book, Still Burning Bush.
Source: Axios
5/25/2020
On this podcast, the filmmaker and historian Geoffrey Ward discuss American leadership during moments of crisis.
Source: The Arts Fuse
5/25/2020
"The biggest argument, though, and the one into which I poured my best intellectual energy, was the argument at the center of the book: that politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy."
Source: The Hill
5/24/2020
Historian Julian Zelizer predicts Trump will continue to play to his base as the campaign heats up; the risk is that he'll fail to connect beyond that base.
Source: NC Policy Watch
5/25/2020
An economic historian contends that GDP is not the best indicator of economic success.
Source: Wall Street Journal
5/22/2020
In reviewing Robert Dallek's recent book, Robert Merry argues that the writer short-changes the agency of voters and the significance of the basic political and economic conditions in determining who wins a presidential election.
Source: New York Times
5/25/2020
Historians including David Kennedy, Martha S. Jones, and Brenda Stevenson, along with curators at national and local museums, discuss the assembly of artifacts to document the COVID crisis for posterity.
Source: New York Times
5/16/2020
David Carter's research clarified conflicting accounts of the events of June 28, 1969 and helped ensure that the portion of Greenwich Village surrounding the Stonewall Inn would be protected by the National Register of Historic Places.
Source: KJZZ
5/20/2020
Historian Peter Mancall tells interviews that applying lessons from past public health emergencies has been impeded by the imperative to exploit the labor of vulnerable workers for profit.
Source: School Library Journal
5/20/2020
School Library Journal recommends history and civics podcasts for kids.
Source: JSTOR Daily
5/20/2020
Historians Erk Loomis and Michael Goldfield are among an interdisciplinary group of scholars describing the process by which the New Deal transformed American society.
Source: The New Yorker
5/18/2020
Nicholas Lemann considers Walter Johnson's new book The Broken Heart of America in light of recent debates among historians about the relationship of slavery, capitalism and racism.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies
5/19/2020
Five history professors at two-year institutions have been recognized for their vital contributions to scholarship, teaching, and their communities.
Source: MediaPost
5/19/2020
The event series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment will feature historians Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay, and Susan Ware.
Source: The New York Times
5/19/2020
A review of Jia Lynn Yang's new work "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide," and Adam Goodman's "The Deportation Machine."
Source: CNN
5/20/2020
Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates weighs in on Trump's consistent antipathy towards Barack Obama.
Source: Carleton Newsroom
5/19/2020
Carleton University history professor Jennifer Evans was introduced to competitive powerlifting by a student and has moved to international competition.
