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 New Republic
3/19/2020
The ancient roots of communal liberty.
Source: Ohio State News
3/21/2020
The alt-right take on the book, in a nutshell: The fact that some white Christians were once held as slaves by black Muslims essentially excuses slavery in America.
Source: Milwaukee Magazine
3/18/2020
“Historical institutions commit to opening their doors and taking in documents and records that might help preserve the community’s memory for future generations.”, says historian Christopher D. Cantwell.
Source: The Gotham Center for New York City History
3/23/20
Erickson is the co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, a new book from the Harlem Education History Project.
Source: The New Yorker
3/23/2020
by Casey Cep
In Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith established a theocracy, ran for President, and tested the limits of religious freedom.
Source: Michigan Radio
3/23/2020
Markel and his cohorts designed a study of the 1918-19 flu pandemic to compare cities that did flatten the curve--with those that didn't.
Source: The Atlantic
3/21/2020
Tuberculosis sanatoriums offered patients fresh air, entertainment, and socialization—for those who could afford them.
Source: The Nation
3/24/2020
by Ed Morales
In her new book historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords' influence as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.
Source: New York Times
3/18/2020
The scholars Joseph P. Reidy and Lizabeth Cohen have won the prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.
Source: Citylab
3/14/2020
by Brentin Mock
As Dr. Rana Hogarth wrote in her book Medicalizing Blackness about the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia: “The idea of innate black immunity placed an undue burden on the city’s black inhabitants."
Source: New York Times
3/17/2020
A researcher stopped working for a German museum after she says she lost faith in its commitment to return works with tainted provenances.
Source: Washington Post
3/17/2020
by Gillian Brockell
Most of the thousand New Yorkers who got typhoid each year were poor people with bad water supplies. The few dozen people that Mallon “attacked” were rich.
Source: Washington Post
3/18/2020
Be thankful we no longer use corn cobs and rope ends.
Source: NPR Codeswitch
3/17/2020
The introduction of the term opened the floodgates for a debate about class, womanhood, and Puerto Rico's long history of reggaeton production.
Source: Vox
3/17/2020
by Constance Grady
Hand-washing as a social responsibility is a fairly new concept.
Source: New York Times
3/17/2020
by Peter Sagal
Like a good crossword, her book challenges us to back away from our assumptions, allows us to think differently and apply ourselves again.
Source: Washington Post
3/13/2020
Bynum, a white Republican in deeply red Oklahoma, said he would not back down from trying to find answers to what happened.
Source: History.com
3/17/2020
Here’s how five of the world’s worst pandemics finally ended.
Source: Washington Examiner
3/12/2020
by Angela Nagle
All the way back in 2010, Turchin warned that the historical patterns were lining up to indicate a coming period of instability and violence in America, which he expected to peak in the 2020s.
Source: Washington Post
1/27/2020
“The Greater Generation” was a conscious retort to decades of boomer bashing. “Hating boomers,” Steinhorn recalls, “had become the last acceptable prejudice.
