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: American Association for State and Local History
8/21/19
by Benjamin Filene
Three museums in Stockholm demonstrate how can historians “pull back the curtain” and reveal the process of history-making in action.
Source: Harvard Magazine
Accessed 8/20/19
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
Source: Washington Post
8/14/19
Cuccinelli’s off-the-cuff edit befuddled and concerned immigration historians who saw his comments as a distortion of one of the nation’s most symbolic ideals.
Source: NY Times
8/7/19
Part reference librarian, part gossip columnist, the hotel historian has become an increasingly popular figure in high-end hotels or inns with actual history.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/12/19
Segregation is not mentioned in a nine-minute video about the institution’s 125-year history, posted last week on YouTube.
Source: AP
8/17/19
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has received more than $400,000 in grants for a project that aims to publish every document written by the nation's 16th president.
Source: Tablet
8/14/19
A review of Sean Wilentz's No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding.
Source: The New Republic
8/16/19
Who wrote women out of Civil War history?
Source: Vox
8/19/19
The author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South explains why white women were not bystanders to slavery.
Source: NY Times
8/19/19
She collaborated with her husband, Harvey, on “It Happened in the Catskills” and other histories told in the voices of the people who were there.
Source: New Yorker
8/12/19
by Kalefa Sanneh
In “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description.
Source: Chris Riback's Conversations
Accessed 8/9/19
Chris Riback in conversation with Tim Alberta and Philip Mudd.
Source: Wall Street Journal
8/6/19
by Jonathan Rose
A new biography presents him not as a clockwork economic determinist but rather as a flexible analyst of capitalism.
Source: Good to Go
7/16/19
by Tony Platt
I’m encouraged that Schama thinks crime and punishment is a sufficiently important topic to bookend his 700-page tome.
Source: Huffington Post
8/6/2019
Trump is “a manifestation of the ugliness that’s in us,” Princeton’s Eddie Glaude Jr. told MSNBC.
Source: Wall Street Journal
8/4/2019
Among the men who signed a king’s death warrant were two who, in the American colonies, met with admiration and ambivalence.
Source: The New Yorker
8/2/2019
Tim Naftali was the first director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in Yorba Linda, California.
Source: Irish Central
8/2/2019
Sophie Hingst, a German blogger and historian who had studied at Trinity College Dublin, was found dead in her Dublin apartment on July 17.
Source: New York Times
8/6/2019
In 2016, he was a surprise National Book Award winner for a sweeping history of ever-mutating American racism. Now, he’s back with a new book that outlines how to fight it.
Source: USA Today
8/6/2019
If your summertime activity includes slapping away noisy insects while enjoying a fat beach book, you might relate to Timothy C. Winegard’s entertainingly educational new opus, "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.”
