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: The Athletic
8/14/19
When a talented Princeton baseball player named Mike Ford needed an adviser for his senior thesis, Wilentz thought it could be a match.
Source: Hyperallergic
8/29/19
At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.
Source: NCPH
8/29/19
The handbook is a co-sponsored living digital resource designed to center inclusivity, diversity, equity, and public service in public history work.
Source: LA Times
8/27/19
Featuring Brian Murphy, Virginia Anderson, Robert Parkinson,
Source: Hyperallergic
8/28/19
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
Source: Hyperallergic
8/21/19
“If Sojourner Truth is added,” the letter reads, “it could obscure the substantial differences between white and black suffrage activists, and would be misleading.”
Source: National Geographic
8/22/19
The black underwater archaeology advocates searching for slave shipwrecks.
Source: Jacobin
8/24/19
by Keri Leigh Merritt and Robert Greene II
“Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason”
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
8/24/19
It's the “taking of my unseen and unrecognized expertise that hurts more than the taking of my words,” Parshall said.
Source: CBC News
8/24/19
Medical historian Whitney Wood is the new Canada Research Chair at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island University.
Source: Washington Post
8/23/19
For Ibram Kendi, being ‘not racist’ doesn’t cut it. He insists that we, and he, be ‘antiracist.’
Source: News @ Wesleyan
8/23/19
These essays offer both general readers and specialists a valuable study of how history itself has become a contested site within the wider national legal debate about firearms.
Source: Diverse Education
8/23/19
Dr. Carl Suddler, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, puts the intersection of race, gender, youth and incarceration under a searing spotlight in his new book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.
Source: Hyperallergic
8/24/19
Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.
Source: NY Times
8/23/19
A new wave of digital archivists is capturing the forgotten stories of Latinxs across the diaspora through vintage photos, newspaper clippings and other ephemera, including concert posters and magazines.
Source: In These Times
8/22/19
by Branko Marcetic
Biden wants to bring the parties together. But for 50 years, that's meant the Right winning every time.
Source: Tom Dispatch
8/11/19
by Tom Engelhardt
How Hollywood created a spectacle of slaughter at the movies in which colonial and imperial history was flipped on its head.
Source: Raw Story
According to historian Heather Cox Richardson, however, Trump isn't the first president to compare himself to Jesus, whom Christians believe was the son of God.
Source: The Conversation
8/19/19
by Ian Milligan
Our society’s historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow.
Source: Roll Call
8/21/19
Holt discusses duels, bathtubs and other Senate mysteries.
