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: New York Times
3/16/2020
Border Patrol agents once ordered an elderly Hispanic man out of his vehicle and requested his identity papers, which showed that he was a Mexican-born immigrant named Raúl H. Castro. Turns out he was Arizona’s former governor.
Source: The Guardian
3/14/2020
Lidice’s survivors hit back at claims that Jewish woman was denounced to Nazis as academics resign over state interference.
Source: NPR
3/14/2020
Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds's new book is Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. Right from its first few pages the authors promise that "this is not a history book."
Source: TIME
3/16/2020
by Olivia B. Waxman
As captioning advocate Philip Bravin puts it, whenever people “watch captions in noisy environments such as gyms and bars, they have the deaf community to thank.”
Source: Salon
3/17/2020
A Truth and Reconciliation commission would be a necessary first step in documenting the Trump regime's crimes and assaults on truth, reality and America's collective memory.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
3/17/2020
“He was committed to this idea of democratization of knowledge, and making it accessible to as many people as possible, not confining oneself to just teaching a course at a university.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
3/16/2020
by Gustavo Arellano
Through letters, newspaper clippings, city council minutes, diaries, and photos, these collections offer lessons from the past that historians say can teach people today about how to confront coronavirus.
Source: Harvard Business Review
3/16/2020
In an email exchange hosted by the Harvard Business Review, Professor of Business Rebecca Henderson and Professor of History Jill Lepore discussed capitalism’s role in an increasingly populist world.
Source: Forward
3/15/2020
by PJ Grisar
Not that long ago, America welcomed its first Nazis.
Source: Politico
According to our experts, Bernie Sanders may not have won the debate, or the 2020 Democratic primary. But he changed his party, and Joe Biden, for the better.
Source: Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
3/16/2020
NARA approved ICE’s request to begin destroying the records in December 2019, despite ongoing concerns and reports of widespread mistreatment of individuals detained in ICE custody.
Source: Erie News Now
3/12/2020
For immigration historians and other scholars, the way US President Donald Trump is describing the coronavirus pandemic has a familiar ring.
Source: New York Times
3/11/2020
by Peter Baker
It is too early to say how President Trump’s actions in the coronavirus outbreak will affect his legacy, but history is filled with lessons.
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
3/11/2020
by John Fea
The New York Times Magazine offers some nuance. It appears that a recent panel featuring Alan Taylor, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others had something to do with this.
Source: Futurism
3/10/2020
Science has progressed, sure, but leaders have ignored other lessons, argues historian Graham Mooney.
Source: Politico
3/9/2020
Historians Julian Zelizer and Douglas Brinkley evaluate President Trump's decision to use the coronavirus for political ends.
Source: The New York Times
3/8/2020
Vermont’s Rokeby Museum has both exposed and experienced the effects of racism at its preserved historic site on a former sheep farm.
Source: The New York Times
3/8/2020
A room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the story of tea and politics, from China to Britain and that “party” in Boston.
Source: CNN
3/8/2020
With a death toll as high as 100,000 people, mostly civilians, the firebombing of Tokyo on March 10th, 1945 should be a more widely-known part of World War II history.
Source: Buzzfeed
3/7/2020
"The history here is so deep and I’ve got a little bit of everything here to tell its story. "
