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: Vox
12/20/2022
Tech historian Margaret O'Mara says Musk, like other tech moguls, has long been supported by a myth of the individual genius that is only now being overturned by his erratic decisionmaking, boosting of right-wing conspiracy theories, and incredibly thin-skinned reaction to criticism.
Source: Associated Press
12/20/2022
The latest volume is planned to cover the years from Johnson's first full year in the presidency in 1964 until his death in 1973.
Source: EdWeek
12/15/2022
Hoping both to fight media panics over "indoctrination" and guide policymakers and teachers toward better practices, the AHA will undertake a two-year project to investigate state curriculum decisions and classroom activities.
Source: Catalyst
12/20/2022
by Sarah Babb
Henry Kissinger responded diplomatically to demands from Third World nations for changes in trade and investment rules to alleviate inequality with a pragmatic approach that recognized inequality as a major issue, but prevented poor nations from forming a united front or organizing around their more radical demands.
Source: Vox
12/20/2022
Does a ratings boost for Greg Gutfeld's late-night show mean that today's conservatives are the funny ones and liberals are too "woke" to laugh? Answering the question means looking past party loyalty to ask what makes humor, says humor historian Teresa Prados-Terreira.
Source: New York Times
12/20/2022
by Jamelle Bouie
Thomas Skidmore's critique of inequality held that the inequality of private property consigned the majority of humanity to toil for the enjoyment of a minority, a situation irreconcilable with democracy.
Source: Los Angeles Times
12/18/2022
"Till" shows that it is no longer possible for a movie about the civil rights era to put historical Black characters in the shadow of white protagonists.
Source: National Geographic
12/19/2022
It's unclear when medieval Germany's winter markets became affixed to nostalgic ideas of Christmas. But they've been adopted by ruling classes to offer prescriptive visions of class hierarchy, religion, and even Nazism.
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
12/16/2022
Beginning in the 1970s, Koelsch was one of the first professors to teach about the gay liberation movement and incorporated the HIV-AIDS crisis into his courses on health and disease.
Source: TIME
12/13/2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
From "Merry Christmas" to "classic" carols, much of what we consider "timeless" in fact has a traceable history.
Source: New York Times
12/12/2022
by Jeff Shesol
Jefferson Cowie's new book traces the current resurgence of racist and antigovernment radicalism through the history of George Wallace's Alabama home county.
Source: The New Yorker
12/15/2022
The historian of Nazism discusses the surprising arrest of German Reichsburger adherents for plotting a coup against the German parliament.
Source: KCRW
12/13/2022
Labor historian Lane Windham discusses the surge in pro-union activism among academics, journalists and other knowledge workers.
Source: New York Review of Books
12/16/2022
by Sean Wilentz
Protests movements have latched on to a misguided interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment that argues it allowed and even encouraged the system of mass incarceration as an extension of slavery. A new global history extends that critique to the age of emancipation in general.
Source: The Baffler
12/14/2022
by John Thomason
The mandate to fly the black banner over many government buildings across the nation reflects the organized power of a New Right faction that crafted a myth of soldiers left behind to air broader cultural grievances about militarism, masculinity, and a supposedly wayward nation.
Source: W
12/13/2022
Fashion historians Valerie Steele and Einav Rabinovitch-Fox explain the historic push and pull between designers and copycats, and how recent trends have blurred the lines between authenticity and fakeness and exclusivity and popular style.
Source: Minnesota Public Radio
12/13/2022
What led Camilla Hall to join the radical Symbionese Liberation Army after a Lutheran upbringing in Minnesota?
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
12/14/2022
Historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries talks about controversial statues: one removed in Richmond, and one uncovered in Philadelphia.
Source: The Atlantic
12/12/2022
Moments of creative innovation matter, but invention depends on a society that is prepared to take advantage and distribute the benefits.
Source: American Historical Association
It's not simple to gauge whether the desire to know about the past relates to wanting to solve community problems in the present.
