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 Nation
5/21/19
The political odyssey of Sean Wilentz.
Source: Slate
5/20/19
Teachers with no sense of perspective tried to make history personal and ended up reinforcing white supremacy in the name of “learning.”
Source: Fast Company
5/20/19
Buried in 1999, the capsule contained the 1992 proposal for the World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee–and Microsoft’s first product.
Source: Daily Mail
5/19/19
How did double agent Oleg Gordievsky stop Russia launching a nuclear strike on the West?
Source: Black Perspectives
5/16/19
by Ralph Callebert
There is thus an extensive literature on dockworkers and their activism. Peter Cole’s Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area fits in this tradition.
Source: USA Today
5/21/19
"I get to get people excited about the past, I get to tell stories of resiliency of optimism, I get to actually do the thing I love most – talk about American history."
Source: AP
5/19/19
A trove of historical records tells us Fort Monroe in Hampton was built on the backs of thousands of African slaves. But little was known about their identities or who they were — until now.
Source: Daily Mail
5/21/19
This sketch of the Seated Man is said to be the earliest-known Michelangelo, created when he was aged around 12.
Source: Wall Street Journal
5/14/19
Featuring Philip Balson, Olivia Daniels, Ethan Ehrenhaft, Max Minshull, and Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
5/15/19
Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.
Source: Slate
5/14/19
The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.
Source: AP
5/15/19
With his latest book, “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” McCullough is seeing some of the sharpest criticism of his career.
Source: Wall Street Journal
5/14/19
Richmond’s Monument Avenue is lined with Confederate statues, but an exhibition filled with proposals to replace them struggles to find a road forward.
Source: AP
5/12/19
The Alabama Historical Association has elected Wetumpka native Franzine Taylor as president for the upcoming year.
Source: NY Times
5/8/19
Knott, a professor at Indiana University, uses her own path to motherhood, which includes a miscarriage and two successful pregnancies, as the scaffolding for her engaging and pleasingly radical “unconventional history” of this subject.
Source: The Atlantic
Accessed 5/14/19
An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
Source: Space.com
5/14/19
An interview with Roger Launius.
Source: WGBH
4/13/19
The case study method was popularized at Harvard Business School to help graduate business students understand how captains of industry made critical decisions.
Source: New Yorker
4/13/19
by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore on the "Confessions of a Presidential Candidate."
Source: Washington Post
5/3/19
Lewis teaches art history and African American studies at Harvard.
