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: The Guardian
4/26/2020
Jon Weiner and Mike Davis's history of 60s Los Angeles traces the city’s turbulent era of rebellion, police brutality and rise of the counterculture.
Source: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4/24/2020
HNN salutes historians newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Source: The New Yorker
4/22/2020
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Professors James Morton Turner and Andrew Isenberg's recent book identifies the Reagan Revolution as the moment the Republican Party rejected environmental regulation and made further protective legislation politically unthinkable for a generation.
Source: Stanton Foundation
4/20/2020
The Stanton Foundation sponsors a weekly award for published essays that "illuminate current challenges and policy choices by analyzing the historical record, especially precedents and analogues."
Source: Tuscaloosa (AL) News
4/19/2020
Friends and colleagues of Alabama historian Sarah Wiggins echoed certain refrains time and again, among them: “She did not suffer fools gladly.”
Source: The Metropole
4/23/2020
by Richard Harris
For Americanists, the slave experience and its legacy has always been a major concern, but even here the specific impact of the urban environment, and urban size, has not always been well-appreciated.
Source: Time
4/21/2020
"Naming the great European void, recognizing its existence by remembering, is thus not only a moral duty but also the only way for us, as survivors, to maintain our own humanity," writes author Elisabeth Åsbrink.
Source: The New York Times
4/21/2020
Like other small, endangered arts organizations, the Tenement Museum in Manhattan has drastically cut its budget as it tries to weather the pandemic.
Source: Washington Post
4/17/2020
Kevin Mitchell Mercer prompted a revealing Twitter conversation among history teachers in K-12 and higher education about this moment and how to capture it for students in class.
Source: The Guardian
4/18/2020
Local protests and uprisings against landlords had happened before, but after the Black Death they became more common.
Source: Billy Penn
4/18/2020
The federal government in the 1930s established the housing policies that keep cities segregated even today, said author and historian Richard Rothstein.
Source: Times of Israel
4/17/2020
Yuval Noah Harari and husband Itzik Yahav say that while Trump has cut aid, ‘luckily, there are more than 7 billion other humans on this earth, and we can do better’.
Source: Citylab
4/20/2020
The ideology of “moral environmentalism,” as historian Alexander von Hoffman termed it, formed the foundation of U.S. urban planning and reform for decades by attributing urban problems to the urban environment rather than political and economic factors.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4/17/2020
A review of Walter Johnson's new book "The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States."
Source: New York Times
4/17/2020
Wherever we are heading, whatever your proclivities, historian of sexuality Kate Lister has this comment: “I promise, it’s all been done before.”
Source: Yahoo Finance
4/17/2020
On Cadence13-directed and produced five-episode podcast docuseries "Hope, Through History," the New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned historian Jon Meacham explores five pivotal moments of crisis in American history and how they shaped the nation.
Source: The Economist
4/16/2020
Because censuses helped governors subjugate the governed, most people resented them.
Source: The Economist
4/18/2020
The Economist under-reported the pandemic. Many victims were counted among the dead of the first world war.
Source: KCRW
4/16/2020
USC history professor William Deverell contextualizes California's unique response to the coronavirus.
Source: Marketplace
4/16/2020
Professor of history Nathan Connolly visited the travelling exhibit "Undesign the Redline."
