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: Washington Post
12/24/19
“What’s at stake is potentially losing the opportunity for the museum to be another instrument through which to build peace in Colombia,” said Rafael Tamayo, an academic who until recently served as the museum’s leader.
Source: LA Review of Books
12/13/19
by Jason S. Sexton
TONY PLATT’S Beyond These Walls provides a relentless critique of the United States’s carceral regime, prompting us to rethink how criminal justice institutions operate.
Source: Reuters
12/19/19
Indian police detained one of the country’s most respected historians and intellectuals, Ramachandra Guha, on Thursday during a demonstration in the southern city of Bengaluru against a new citizenship law based on religion.
Source: New York Magazine
12/18/19
“I’m a student of Watergate,” Brinkley says. “I was alive and doing cable TV and journalism during Clinton’s impeachment. What I see happening with Trump seems to me far worse.”
1/5/19
by Julia Brown
Director Sharon Grimberg discusses her new documentary "McCarthy," premiering on American Experience January 6, 2020.
Source: Ms. Magazine
12/16/19
by Keisha N. Blain
Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective in 1974—best known for its groundbreaking Combahee River Collective Statement, which called attention to racism in the feminist movement and sexual oppression in the Black community.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
12/12/19
Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum has spent her career studying black women’s history. So, when the Montgomery native and Florida A&M University history professor was approached last summer to serve as a model for a monument to legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks, she didn’t hesitate to say yes.
Source: AP News
12/12/19
The long-awaited American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City is getting a new name. City and tribal officials announced Thursday the facility will be called the First Americans Museum.
Source: Nursing Clio
12/17/19
by Bridget Keown
Music forms a critical part of every documented human culture, providing a functional and emotional form of communication.
Source: NY Times
12/13/19
The author of acclaimed biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass, he also helped establish Yale’s black studies department.
Source: NPR
12/14/19
Jonathan Rosenberg, a professor of history at Hunter College, has a new book that examines this phenomenon. It's called Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from The Great War through the Cold War.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
12/17/19
Louisiana Tech University briefly removed an instructor of history from teaching over class discussions on race and other topics before reinstating him this month.
Source: Wall Street Journal
12/16/19
by Elliot Kaufman
"The New York Times tries to rewrite U.S. history, but its falsehoods are exposed by surprising sources."
2/2/20
by Isabella DelPino
“You know what I love about Eleanor Roosevelt and the thing that I try to emulate the most about Eleanor Roosevelt? She had tremendous zest for life and for new experience and that animates me.”
Source: Black Perspectives
12/12/19
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stood in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently denied tenure at Harvard University.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
12/11/19
Graduate workers at Harvard are striking. Here’s what they want, and how they plan to get it.
Source: Slate
12/9/19
An interview with Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
The originals remain at the National Archives, but new 3-D scans showcase the ballistics in vivid detail
Source: BBC History Magazine
12/10/19
In the Christmas 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now, 11 historians selected their favourite historical page-turners published in 2019 .
Source: The Atlantic
Accessed 12/10/19
by Annette Gordon-Reed
"The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed."
