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: Mother Jones
5/4/2020
As COVID-19 rages around the world, archivists, librarians, oral historians, and activists have spun up oral history projects to document their communities’ everyday experiences during an extraordinary social, political, cultural, and historical moment.
Source: NPR
5/4/2020
In this podcast, medical historian Dr. Howard Markel shares lessons to be learned from the 1918 flu outbreak, and podcast host shares 102-year-old letters from her aunt's family.
Source: Washington Monthly
4/30/2020
Historian Allen C. Guelzo reviews Fergus Bordewich's new book "Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America," which argues that the 37th and 38th Congresses had a bigger role in the abolition of slavery than the 16th president.
Source: The Hill
4/30/2020
Medical historians Howard Markel and Frank Snowden note how pandemics, including the present one, have to power to completely upend daily life.
Source: WBUR
5/3/2020
An interview with science historian Naomi Oreskes on the impact of the coronavirus on the relationship between science and politics.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
5/3/2020
Historians are collecting archival documents related to COVID-19 in real-time to ensure that no experience with the virus is forgotten.
Source: Washington Post
5/2/2020
More than a hundred years ago, germ theory — the discovery that microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses caused disease — had a profound impact on almost every aspect of human behavior, just as the novel coronavirus could do after the current pandemic ends.
Source: Daily Beast
The author's encounter with a family trove of news clippings from V-E day was cause for reflection on victory as a process, not an event.
Source: WCMU
5/1/2020
Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.
Source: National Catholic Register
5/1/2020
German historian and Catholic Priest Father Hubert Wolf has claimed that recently opened Vatican documents show Pope Pius XII was complicit with Nazi atrocities. Other Church historians dispute the novelty or veracity of his evidence.
Source: Bloomberg
5/3/2020
When historians rank the worst presidents in American history, indecision and inaction in the face of crisis are common attributes. Until now, most of the worst served before or after the Civil War.
Source: Prospect (UK)
5/1/2020
History matters as much as economics, statistics, and, yes, even science. Events of the last few months and years show this conclusively.
Source: National Parks Conservation Association
5/1/2020
Hundreds of people were once enslaved at the opulent Hampton estate, but for decades after the site became part of the National Park System, their stories remained hidden. That is changing.
Source: The Pulitzer Prizes
5/4/2020
Historian Greg Grandin's book on the history and symbolism of the border (and border walls) has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Source: The Hill
5/3/2020
John Barry's book The Great Influenza demonstrates how federalism can work effectively in a crisis. By that standard, the current response leaves much to be desired.
4/30/2020
The Society of American Historians has recognized an outstanding group of scholars, writers, and public champions of history with membership.
Source: Washington Post
4/29/2020
A team of resesarchers led by Hubert Wolf discovered documents suggesting Pope Pius XII knew at an early stage of the Nazi efforts at genocide, concealed those facts from the United States government and others, and concealed documents to protect the Church's image.
Source: HowStuffWorks
4/29/2020
Author Kristin Downey covered Social Security for years, which has driven her to correct the tendency to overlook Frances Perkins's key contributions to the most important social welfare program in America.
Source: WBUR
4/9/2020
During the Great Depression, art became a part of people's everyday lives, notes art historian Jody Patterson.
Source: The Academic Minute
4/29/2020
In this podcast, Melanie Pavich discusses the research and service-learning based courses for undergraduate students she developed centered on the study of African American communities and schools in coastal Georgia.
