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: BerkeleySide
2/13/20
Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Georgia earned her BA from Swarthmore College, her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University and her MBA from UC Berkeley.
Source: NY Times
2/13/20
"I thought their bond was indestructible. Now I’m mourning people who are still alive."
Source: Black Perspectives
2/14/20
An interview with abria Baumgartner, an assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Hampshire at Durham, author of n Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Education Activism in Antebellum America.
Source: Perspectives on History
2/12/20
by Dylan Ruediger
New History PhDs Awarded Continue to Decline as Academic Job Market Remains Flat
Source: New Yorker
2/10/20
His blockbuster “Sapiens” predicted the possible end of humankind. Now what?
Source: Democracy Now
Accessed 2/13/20
After a nearly 13-hour marathon session, the U.S. Senate approved by a party-line vote the rules for the impeachment trial of President Trump. This marks just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history.
Source: The Gazette
2/12/20
In addition to his longtime position as tenured professor of British social, imperial and religious history at the University of Iowa — where he also served in leadership positions including chair of the History Department and president of the Faculty Senate — Cox was widely involved in the community.
Source: Studies in Intelligence
2/10/10
by William J. Rust
“No Boy Scout: CIA Operations Officer Lucien Conein” tells the story of a polarizing French-American paramilitary specialist who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and in its postwar successor agencies.
Source: American Ancestors
2/10/10
The new Roosevelt family materials will comprise part of the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections at American Ancestors.
Source: NY Times
2/4/20
A review of SEDUCTION: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present by Clement Knox.
Source: Vox
2/6/20
by Ezra Klein
Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on The Ezra Klein Show. But in this episode of the show, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions. Hard ones.
Source: PBS Newshour
2/6/20
Judy Woodruff sits down with the University of New Hampshire’s Ellen Fitzpatrick, presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Carolyn Lukensmeyer of the National Institute for Civil Discourse to discuss.
Source: Black Perspectives
2/4/20
by Ahmad Greene-Hayes
The forum will offer pieces from scholars in African American religious studies who think critically about the show and its engagement with politics, performance, and African American religions in the early twentieth-century South, specifically in Tulsa, after the 1921 massacre.
Source: Renegade South
2/30/20
by Victoria Bynum
Part of the ongoing historical debate.
Source: Vogue
2/7/20
Alice Mayhew edited for Bob Woodward, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Walter Isaacson, among others.
Source: Nursing Clio
2/6/20
by Cara Delay
The policing of midwives’ bags and what was in them was central to the mission that would ultimately destroy black women’s traditional health networks.
Source: Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog
2/9/20
by Richard Cándida Smith
A review of Ann Laura Stoler's Duress: Imperial Durabilities In Our Times.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2/8/20
“We don’t know a lot about [coronavirus] right now,” said Ms. Webel, who has a PhD in history and teaches classes on the history of health. “But this is why it’s so important to think about what specific pathogen is causing the problem."
Source: Michigan Live
2/8/20
For Matt Lasseter, professor of history at UM, putting Earth Day and its ties to Michigan into historical context is key.
Source: Bozeman Daily Chronicle
2/7/20
Chernobyl should be seen, not as a one-time accident, Brown argued, but as part of a larger, still ongoing story of global nuclear contamination and Russian, American and the international officials hiding the truth.
