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.
1/19/20
by Sam Mastrianni
An interview with the President of The Supreme Court Historical Society.
Source: Nursing Clio
10/31/19
by Lara Freidenfelds
A review of Brian Rosenwald’s Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States.
Source: The Guardian
10/30/19
Olivette Otele says she wants to ‘facilitate dialogue that needs to take place’ at University of Bristol.
Source: Wall Street Journal
10/29/19
How much influence did the Great Awakening, driven by evangelists like George Whitefield, have on the cause of American independence?
Source: NY Times
10/27/19
Thousands of letters and other artifacts from the life of the radical prankster of the counterculture are sold to the University of Texas at Austin.
Source: The Atlantic
10/26/19
Jung Chang is one of the most celebrated chroniclers of modern China. Her life spotlights the threat that writing still holds for the country’s rulers.
Source: NPR
10/24/19
"It's a stunning moment in Thai history."
Source: The New Republic
10/24/19
The publication of Kevin M. Levin’s excellent book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, is nothing less than a declaration of war.
Source: CBS
10/26/19
"I think what people don't understand about Prohibition are the very serious and long-lasting legacies of the law."
Source: Washington Post
10/27/19
Among Nationals fans, Teddy Roosevelt is a favorite in the ballpark’s Presidents Race. But in real life, he deplored the sport as a ‘mollycoddle game.’
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
10/24/19
During the early 1960s — an intense period of racial strife in the South — the Millers were arrested and jailed after protesting segregation at the lunch counter of a railroad station in Houston.
Source: Washington Post
10/24/19
In “Cabinets of Curiosities,” Patrick Mauriès tells the history of some truly awesome collectors.
Source: AP
10/22/19
Historian Anthony Pitch's quest for the truth about a gruesome mob lynching of two black couples is prompting a U.S. appeals court to consider whether federal judges can order grand jury records unsealed in decades-old cases with historical significance.
Source: The Atlantic
10/24/19
by Ibram X. Kendi
Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young.
Source: Michigan News
10/18/19
We’re poised for positive change with incredible energy to make our criminal justice system more just, and nowhere are we seeing that more than in Detroit.
Source: NPR
10/18/19
No Stopping Us Now makes clear, for example, that two particularly challenging times to be an older woman in America were the youth-obsessed 1920s and 1960s.
Source: Black Perspectives
10/23/19
by Ida E. Jones
In Rosalyn Terborg-Penn direct confrontation with the sexism of some African American male scholars and racism of some white women scholars, she co-founded the Association of Black Women Historians.
Source: NY Times
10/22/19
A former journalist, she spent nearly 50 years producing an acclaimed six-volume work on the Fourth Republic. Her own life held plenty of drama of its own.
Source: Indiana Gazette
10/15/19
After inviting listeners to step into a historical world on each episode, Horrocks and Mahoney launch into debates about the problematic aspects of American Girl, draw links to pop culture and talk about the lessons that the characters learn.
Source: The Art Newspaper
10/15/19
He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
