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: Black Perspectives
11/22/2019
by J. T. Roane
An interview with Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019).
Source: USA Today
December 2, 2019
by Hillel Italie
Robert K. Massie was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specialized in best-selling and critically praised history of Russian tsars.
Source: The Nation
December 1, 2019
by Michael Kazin
Eric Foner’s story of American freedom, The Second Founding, sheds new light on how the Civil War and Reconstruction influenced the Constitution.
Source: New York Times
11/27/2019
Marilyn Yalom, a feminist author and historian, died on Nov. 20 at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. She was 87.
Source: NPR
11/25/19
The U.S. has a long and largely forgotten history of violence against Latinos, says Monica Muñoz Martinez, an assistant professor of American studies at Brown University and author of “The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas.”
Source: NY Times
11/21/19
He documented the often overlooked contributions of black people in books for young adults, helping to refashion social studies curriculums across the country.
Source: Brown Daily Herald
11/19/19
Robert Douglas Cope remembered for compassion, engaging lectures.
Source: The Guardian
11/14/19
In a letter to the Guardian, they said: “To ignore it because Brexit looms larger is to declare that anti-Jewish prejudice is a price worth paying for a Labour government.”
Source: Washingtonian
11/14/19
A conversation with Allan Lichtman, who's correctly predicted every election since 1984.
Source: Washington Post
11/20/19
Seymour praised his wife, then known as Dorothy Z. Seymour, for her “indispensable” work in his acknowledgments, but her contributions turned out to be much greater than most people realized.
Source: LA Review of Books
11/21/19
by Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper reviews Anthony T. Kronman's new book, The Assault on American Excellence.
Source: Literary Hub
11/13/19
by James Loewen
James W. Loewen Wonders What Happened to Vietnam.
Source: World Wide Socialist Web
11/18/19
"Collectively their work has prompted some very strong criticism from scholars in the field. My concern is that by avoiding some of the basic analytical questions, most of the scholars have backed into a neo-liberal economic interpretation of slavery."
Source: NPR
11/17/19
NPR's Michel Martin poses listener questions about the impeachment inquiry to historian Jeffrey Engel, co-author of Impeachment: An American History.
Source: Politico
11/16/19
Historians Frank O. Bowman III, Timothy Naftali, Allan J. Lichtman, Brenda Wineapple, and David Priess weigh in.
Source: Washington Post
11/15/19
“All too often, we look at history as these singular events that happened long ago. We sometimes try to connect many of those events to the present, but we fail to realize sometimes that the events that are unfolding around us every day are historic, too."
Source: Smithsonian.org
11/15/19
by Erin Blakemore
Packed with ordinary objects made and used by American women, Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection considers their contributions to the nation’s history through the lens of the things they invented, created and owned.
Source: NPR
11/14/19
'Who Is An Evangelical?' Looks At History Of Evangelical Christians And The GOP
Source: The Guardian
November 14, 2019
by Tobias Jones
A gripping narrative within A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead of four extraordinary women who delivered intelligence, letters and weaponry in the cause of resisting the German occupation of Italy
Source: National Archives News
11/14/19
by James Worsham
Worsham summarizes the thoughts portrayed by panel on women suffragists and men who supported them with scholars like Johanna Newman, Brooke Kroeger, and Susan Ware.
