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.
Throughout the regions where enslaved Africans were concentrated, certain culinary “common denominators” emerged, Twitty writes in his book. These dishes formed the basis for Southern cuisine and “soul food.”
Source: Associated Press
2/28/2020
Historian Matthew Delmont's website Black Quotidian features profiles of hundreds of African Americans taken from black newspapers mostly between the 1900s and the 1980s.
Source: Richmond News
2/25/20
How does history help explain the current panic about the novel coronavirus?
Source: Wall Street Journal
2/21/20
by Gordon S. Wood
What shocked colonists like George Washington into war? Britain’s imperious actions in Boston.
Source: Black Perspectives
2/20/20
by Brandon K. Winford
In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that centers on Black women in the largely male-dominated banking sector between the 1860s and 1930s.
Source: Washington Post
2/22/20
It has never been proved that the vanishing of the records, often undertaken by white officials, was intentional or coordinated, she said. Still, it had far-reaching consequences.
Source: AP
2/20/20
In announcing the release date Thursday, HarperCollins called “Battlegrounds” a “groundbreaking reassessment of America’s place in the world..."
Source: Washington Post
2/21/20
As has happened fairly regularly during the Trump administration, historians on Twitter expressed their displeasure after Trump praised Gone with the Wind.
Source: New York Review of Books Daily
2/20/20
by Sean Wilentz
"Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace"
Source: NY Times
2/23/20
24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life
Source: Salon
2/19/20
Historian and author of "Believe Me" on his struggle to reach the embattled evangelicals who oppose Trump.
Source: Vox
2/18/20
Featuring Shennette Garrett-Scott, LaGarrett King, Sowande Mustakeem, Douglas J. Flowe, Jason Allen, and Dale Allender.
Source: Washington Post
2/16/20
For all the iconic presidents she has profiled — Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson among them — Goodwin has never written a biography of George Washington.
Source: Newsweek
2/16/20
In this interview, Shugerman faults Barr for refusing to use special counsels, and calls for structural reforms to ensure greater Justice Department independence in the future.
Source: Washington Post
2/16/20
‘Something has to be done’: Trump’s quest to rewrite history of the Russia probe.
Source: BillyPenn
2/15/20
The gathering at Temple is totally free and open to the public.
Zara Steiner, a historian whose magisterial books on 20th-century diplomacy were considered authoritative studies of Europe from World War I to World War II, died Feb. 13 at her home in Cambridge, England. She was 91.
Source: Commonwealth Magazine
1/28/20
"Reading Buttigieg: A former teacher’s perspective"
Source: NY Times
2/14/20
The New York Times reviews THE PROFESSOR AND THE PARSON: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking by Adam Sisman.
Source: Diverse Education
2/13/20
Dr. David Canton, associate professor of history at Connecticut College, is working on a biography of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, which will focus on the mid-20th century when an increasing number of African Americans earned doctorates and entered the faculties at predominantly White colleges and universities (PWIs).
