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: Smithsonian Magazine
May 2020
From kitsch to cool, ride the waves of undulating popularity of a tropical fashion statement.
Source: AHA Perspectives on History
4/15/2020
Historian Adam Goodman discusses his new book entitled, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants."
Source: CapRadio
4/19/2020
Have you been wearing sweatpants everyday? Listen to fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell discuss how the coronavirus may impact people's style choices.
Source: Oregon Live
4/20/2020
Pellom McDaniels, 52, became a college professor after his football days, earning a PhD in American Studies. He was an assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University, as well as a curator of African American collections for the school’s library.
Source: Perspectives on History
4/14/2020
by James Grossman
AHA President James Grossman says that as historians, we work hard to understand people—the people we study and the people we teach, in the classroom and beyond. This perspective will inform the AHA's efforts to help historians affected by this emergency.
Source: Jacobin
4/16/2020
"The COVID-19 outbreak is essentially a reaping of what we’ve sown with mass incarceration, from a public health perspective."
Source: CityLab
4/14/2020
Mab Segrest explores the history of blaming black people for bad health outcomes in her new book, “Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum.”
Source: TIME
4/14/2020
by Deirdre Mask
“The poor were dying in disproportionate numbers not because they suffered from moral failings,” Steven Johnson writes. “They were dying because they were being poisoned.”
Source: New York Times
4/15/2020
An author of 12 books and countless articles and a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, Professor Henry Graff was best known as a keen observer of the men who occupied the White House — 17 of whom presided during his lifetime.
Source: Smithsonian
4/13/2020
Historians including Kevin Levin, Nancy Bristow and Lora Vogt reflect on what people today can do to help historians of the future understand life during the COVID crisis.
Source: University of Washington History Department
4/15/2020
William Rorabaugh, known to his colleagues as Bill, was a popular teacher and prolific scholar whose legacy will be felt for many years to come.
Source: TomDispatch
4/12/2020
The coronavirus crisis is putting America's flaws into the spotlight.
Source: TomDispatch
4/14/2020
Historian Tom Engleheart uses his past book "The End of Victory Culture" to propose how politics may function in a post-coronavirus world.
Source: Washington Post
4/13/2020
In 1932, President Hoover was also wary about government spending during an economic crisis.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
4/14/2020
L.A. has a rich history, and it deserves to be told.
Source: The New York Times
4/7/2020
A review of German historian Gotz Aly's new book "Europe Against the Jews: 1880-1945."
Source: Vanderbilt News
4/8/2020
Harrington is a Vanderbilt University professor and a European historian.
Source: Duluth News-Tribune
4/12/2020
"That practice, even if it is only a ritual formality, it nevertheless, I believe, sets a tone that makes for a more civil society in a land where a settler society lives alongside Indigenous peoples," said Tom Isern, a history professor at North Dakota State University.
Source: The Guardian
4/8/2020
Dr Li Wenliang tried to sound the alarm about the coronavirus outbreak. For centuries, doctors have been doing the same – leading to backlash and even death.
Source: Harvard Gazette
4/13/2020
Historian Nancy F. Cott tells the story of the interwar period through the lives of four American foreign correspondents.
