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: Keeping Democracy Alive
5/2/19
Berger went on the Keeping Democracy Alive podcast to discuss.
Source: Time
5/1/19
The Civil Rights activists faced violence in multiple cities in their fight for equality.
Source: G&LR
4/27/19
by Marc Stein
Why did the Stonewall Riots occur when and where they did?
Source: NY Times
4/29/19
Thousands of articles of everyday women’s clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie?
Source: The Verge
5/4/19
Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History was commissioned by the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense.
Source: Washington Post
5/6/19
John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian and iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a best-selling tribute to Winston Churchill and produced a substantial and often despairing body of writings on the politics and culture of Europe and the United States.
Source: College Fix
5/6/19
Hoffer had called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “hate group,” and claimed that Black Lives Matter and radical Muslim terrorists are a bigger threat than the KKK and Neo-Nazis.
Source: The Nation
5/1/19
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman recovers the forgotten “sexual modernists” of 20th century black life.
Source: Boston Magazine
4/30/19
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian wants the nation to remember its better angels—and hopes his latest book might jog our memory.
Source: Time
4/25/19
For Joëlle Rollo-Koster — a professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island--Brienne has long drawn comparisons to Joan of Arc.
Source: Wall Street Journal
4/24/19
A company controlled by the couple says the archives are at risk after the recent bankruptcy of the magazines’ former publisher.
Source: The North Star
4/28/19
by Michelle Duster
Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of data journalism who worked relentlessly to shed light on the brutalities of lynching.
Source: AP
4/27/19
The film, a production of WETA Washington, aired Monday and examines the lasting social and political costs of the Korean War.
Source: Standford Daily
4/29/19
Leaders from Stanford Libraries and the Press are now in discussions about how to “develop a sustainable business model” supported by its revenue, modest philanthropy and general funds allocation.
Source: Undark
4/26/19
In “Midnight in Chernobyl,” Adam Higginbotham offers a thorough and readable account of one awful night in the Ukraine and its consequences.
Source: The Nation
4/26/19
“The more I have read his writings, the more I have come to admire and respect him not just as an historian but as a person.”
Source: The Guardian
4/28/19
From Pat Barker’s reworking of Greek myth to Anna Burns’s take on the Troubles, the finalists turn familiar stories on their heads.
Source: Epoch Times
4/29/19
Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ibn Khaldun.
Source: Slate
4/23/19
by Rebecca Onion
Race, and racism, were both hidden and ubiquitous in the show’s rhetoric.
Source: WWD
4/21/19
Rose, who wrote "For All the Tea in China" in 2011, was inspired by her personal connections to the military for "D-Day Girls."
