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
6/27/2019
by Adriana Chira
With chapters covering a broad geographic expanse (including the North and South Atlantic), the volume shows how Afro-descendants across the Western Hemisphere engaged with new liberal ideologies of inclusion while countering elite efforts to restrict the political openings created by these ideologies.
Source: Black Perspectives
7/1/2019
by J. T. Roane
The Lemonade Reader gathers a newer generation of Black feminist scholars to engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor around the Lemonade phenomena.
Source: Wall Street Journal
6/30/2019
Today’s overheated politics make prudent statesmanship seem hopelessly distant, but our future may depend on it—yet again.
Source: KUOW
6/28/2019
When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.
Source: Time
6/30/2019
While the nearly 250 years since 1776 have been chock full of major milestones, not every moment that shaped the country gets the credit it deserves.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6/28/19
While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past.
Source: The New Yorker
6/1/19
He’s just published a book called “Working.” It’s a gift, a collection of interviews and essays that talk about the craft of what he does.
Source: New Yorker
6/26/19
by Caleb Crain
Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law.
Source: Intelligencer
6/30/2019
Professor Michael Honey, who teaches civil-rights history at the University of Washington Tacoma, took strong issue with historian and former University of Pittsburgh professor David Garrow’s framing of the newly discovered file.
Source: The Bulwark Podcast
6/25/19
Princeton professor and famed #Twitterstorian Kevin M. Kruse discuss revisionist history on the right and many more issues in politics.
Source: Daily Mail
6/23/2019
In 2023, it will be brought together in a single-volume book, Britain: The Thread of History 1603-2016, published by Bantam Press.
Source: The Guardian
6/22/2019
Director hits back at critics who say the institution, backed by Poland’s populist party, will distort wartime history
Source: New York Times
6/24/2019
The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveal an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.
Source: Art News
6/22/2019
Peter Selz, whose enterprising curatorial vision helped shape the Berkeley Art Museum in California and the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the mid-20th century, died on Friday, according to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives.
Source: Black Perspectives
June 19, 2019
by Joshua Clark Davis
Read about the only African American historian to recieve a Presidential Medal of Honor.
Source: WHYY
6/5/2019
Marc Stein, a professor at San Francisco State University, explains why these demonstrations are a little-known piece of LGBTQ history and how they reflected a larger cultural shift in the U.S.
Source: The Gotham Center for New York History
6/13/2019
Today on the blog, we talk to Marc Stein about his new book, The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. In it, he compiles 200 documents that shed light on the years immediately preceding and after the events at Stonewall.
Source: The Atlantic
June 19, 2019
by Hannah Giorgis
Joan E. Biren’s images from the ’70s and ’80s—which appear in the new exhibit “Art After Stonewall”—reflect an effort to document and encourage lesbian love.
Source: Midas
Accessed 6/20/19
Reckonings is an affecting study of the legacy of the Holocaust, exploring the extent to which Nazi persecutors were brought to account, and how myths of justice being done developed in the years following the Second World War.
Source: Big Brains Podcast
Accessed 6/20/19
One of the leading scholars on the American presidency gives us insight into the Trump era, the history of impeachment, and the power of the office.
