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 Mag
3/9/2020
by Meilan Solly
A new public history initiative spearheaded by historians Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan is poised to bring a series of guidebooks for gay travelers into the digital age, drawing on more than 30,000 listings compiled between 1965 and 1980 to visualize queer spaces’ evolution over time.
Source: Jewish Exponent
3/9/2020
According to historian Melissa R. Klapper, Pinzer’s story has been of great interest to scholars of gender and working-class women because her letters are among the only firsthand accounts of prostitution during the early 20th century. “She was also quite self-aware about the role that gender norms and limitations on women, especially economic, had played in her life.”
Source: New York Times
3/10/2020
“We are changing the narrative at this moment in history,” said Michele Pecoraro, executive director of Plymouth 400. Today, she said, “it is all about a shared history among four nations, that looks at it from that perspective probably for the first time. The Wampanoag involvement is a first. The Netherlands involvement is a first. Those added perspectives offer more of a balanced picture.”
Source: WBUR
3/09/2020
“It’s eerie, the familiarity,” says historian Frank Snowden, as a disease from Asia once again creeps across the world — wreaking particular havoc on Italy.
Source: New York Times
3/10/2020
by Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff
Mr. Sanders is right: All these countries provide universal coverage. But what he doesn’t talk about is the excruciating battle they went through to get there.
Source: New York Times
3/9/2020
American airmen who took part in the 1945 firebombing missions grapple with the particular horror they witnessed being inflicted on those below.
Source: The Atlantic
3/5/2020
Vera Golubeva spent more than six years in one of Joseph Stalin’s gulag camps. Her crime? “To this day, I still don’t know,” she says.
Source: New York Times
3/6/2020
Dr. Steiner dug into the letters and other papers of civil servants and interviewed prominent and not-so-prominent historical players to flesh out the picture of how momentous events were shaped.
Source: Time
3/6/2020
by Olivia B. Waxman
To shed light on other lesser-known female history-makers, we asked historians to name a woman from the American past whose story should be better known. Here are their picks.
Source: Washington Post
3/8/2020
In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal with a terror that bordered on hysteria.
Source: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
3/4/2020
by Anthony Chaney
In his new book, Grandin traces the idea of limitless expansion in American history, and he suggests that the era of that ideology has ended.
Source: History.com
3/4/2020
To the end of his life, David A. Nichols says, “Eisenhower never admitted that the White House was behind this.” Yet he couldn’t help but gloat a bit in private. On at least one occasion, he reportedly repeated a joke that “it’s no longer McCarthyism, it’s McCarthywasm.”
Source: UC Santa Cruz
3/4/2020
Professor Elaine Sullivan's publication is among the first to include interactive 3D models that can be navigated both spatially and temporally.
Source: The New Yorker
3/3/2020
In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines the ways in which disease outbreaks have shaped politics, crushed revolutions, and entrenched racial and economic discrimination.
3/4/2020
"Slavery and the American Revolution: A Historical Dialogue" will continue some of the vigorous discussion surrounding "The 1619 Project."
Source: Jewish News of Northern California
2/26/2020
Craig-Norton’s findings offer parallels to the migrant child-parent separation issues of today and provide valuable lessons.
Source: The Atlantic
3/1/2020
When you put everything together, we’re likely living through the most rapid change in family structure in human history. The causes are economic, cultural, and institutional all at once.
Source: Gainesville Times
2/29/2020
Brittany Rhodes, now 30, first found the keys as she was disposing of leftovers from an estate sale. A tag on the keys read, “If found return to Warden J.E. Smith, Milledgeville, GA. State Prison Farm.”
Source: Boston Globe
2/27/2020
“What happens when we think of this as an event that is populated by women and children as well as just guys with guns?”
Source: New York Times
2/29/2020
If in 2020, we agree that all lives matter, then all lives mattered then, too, so we should find a way to demonstrate that. One way is to democratize our landscape.
