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: Organization of American Historians
4/6/2020
The Organization of American Historians has announced the winners of its annual prizes for scholarship and service.
Source: Washington Post
4/3/2020
How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.
Source: Haaretz
4/4/2020
Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes believes the coronavirus may be a 'dress rehearsal' for the climate catastrophe looming on the horizon – and suggests why people want to deny both threats.
Source: Art News
4/2/2020
Driskell's work, including the famous exhibition "Two Centuries of Black American Art," illustrated the importance of black artists in American art history.
4/2/2020
Larry Cummings was a history and geography professor at North Central Michigan College for more than 50 years.
Source: Quartz
4/1/2020
Governments, both federal and local, are already flirting with emergency powers to fight the spread of coronavirus that contravene the rights residents normally take for granted.
Source: Ashland Tidings
4/1/2020
In his new book, “Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels,” Southern Oregon University professor Edwin Battistella details the vicious, scurrilous and often laughable ways American political operatives have used name-calling to provoke and besmirch foes in the top job.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4/2/2020
Scholars are among those confronting the rise in anti-Asian and anti-Asian American racism that’s come with COVID-19.
Source: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
4/01/2020
by Richard Harris
For two generations, Lampard told urban historians that cities mattered especially, but not only, in economic terms.
Source: Crain's Cleveland Business
3/30/2020
Henry Louis Gates Jr., who chairs the Anisfield-Wolf jury, said in a statement that the winners "bring us fresh insights on race and diversity."
Source: AHA Committee on LGBTQ History
3/30/2020
In an effort to address member needs, we are announcing 10 CLGBTH Hardship Grants of $200 each to members of the Committee. First-come first-served, no questions asked.
Source: Vox
3/28/2020
Financial historian Adam Tooze on the lessons policymakers need to learn, and fast.
Source: Forbes
3/29/2020
Historian Nelson Lichtenstein compares Trump's response to coronavirus with previous presidents' handling of crises.
Source: The New Yorker
3/30/2020
Outbreaks have sparked riots and propelled public-health innovations, prefigured revolutions and redrawn maps.
Source: Bloomberg Quint
3/29/2020
How unprecedented is this situation, really? Business and military historian Mark Wilson, economist Mark Harrison, and political scientist Rosella Cappella Zielinski discuss.
Source: Perspectives on History
3/30/2020
by Mary Lindemann
Critical to the prospering of any academic group are the unwritten expectations that underlie and ground its workings. When they’re observed, organizations prosper; when they’re disregarded, things go terribly wrong.
Source: WFAE
3/27/2020
Local historian Pamela Grundy discusses the Rev. Dr. Darius Swann who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education. He died on March 8, at the age of 95.
Source: The Pantagraph
3/31/2020
"I didn't take this thing as seriously as I should have. No one here really did," said Jasper. "It got real bad, real fast."
Source: Science Magazine
3/30/2020
Recently, scientists have identified startling spikes of lead deposited in medieval times in Arctic ice cores and in lake sediments in Europe.
Source: Prospect Magazine
3/26/2020
There's a widespread assumption that the Soviet Union had no alternative to ending the Cold War in the way they did. But that's wrong, says the Oxford historian.
