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: Time
4/18/19
Featuring Heather Cox Richardson, Joanne B. Freeman, Manisha Sinha, Douglas Brinkley, Robert Dallek, Barbara A. Perry, and Julian E. Zelizer.
Source: AP
4/22/19
Rise Up Detroit is scheduled to officially launch with a kickoff event May 14 at Wayne State’s David Adamany Undergraduate Library. The program is expected to include a discussion with civil rights veterans and experts.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4/22/19
"By removing the GRE from our admissions form, we will be able to focus more on the qualitative assessments that better identify the most promising applicants: writing samples, personal statements, recommendations and the student’s complete record of course work and grades."
Source: D.C. Policy Center
4/23/19
For the past several years, Mapping Segregation in Washington DC has been documenting the historic role of real estate developers, citizens associations (white homeowner groups), and the courts in segregating the city.
Source: NY Times
4/23/19
“The heartland myth insists that there is a stone-solid core at the center of the nation."
Source: Slate
4/22/19
Why does the exhaustive biographer overlook Lyndon Johnson’s virulent misogyny?
Source: The Guardian
4/22/19
More than 2 million remembrance tourists expected to join veterans and world leaders for commemorations.
Source: Black Perspectives
4/23/19
by Ronald Angelo Johnson
Frederick Douglass belonged to an exclusive cohort of African American diplomats posted across the Caribbean at the end of the nineteenth century.
Source: The Chronicle Review
4/18/19
Featuring short essays by historians Keisha N. Blain, Marcia Chatelain, Gerald Early, Stefan M. Bradley, and Noliwe M. Rook.
Source: Black Perspectives
4/17/19
by J.T. Roane
As the Director of African American History at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, she is responsible for engaging local and national audiences in conversations about slavery and its legacies.
Source: UCONN
Accessed 4/17/19
Details about the conference and livestream.
Source: AHA Perspectives
4/15/19
by John R. McNeill
Even if in-person interviews yield more useful information than videoconferencing, the economic argument for abandoning the tradition is hard to resist.
Source: Process History
4/16/19
by Gale Kenny
The Women’s March and related activism are similar to the 20th century political organizing of the United Council of Church Women.
Source: New York Magazine
4/13/19
The new conspiracism is more than capable of spreading on its own, but it doesn’t help that even some political elites who surely know better haven’t exactly been forthright in debunking conspiracy theories lately.
Source: Washington Post
4/11/19
The Math in Focus workbook said in a math problem that Columbus landed in America in 1492. The students at Valleyview Elementary School in Oneonta knew that wasn’t true — and they wanted the publisher to fix the error.
Source: CNN
4/13/19
Theater historian Geoffrey Marsh spent a decade meticulously researching the home of the English dramatist and poet by cross-referencing official records to pinpoint where exactly Shakespeare lived during the 1590s.
Source: NY Times
4/15/19
Professor Davis wrote or edited 16 books, but paramount were the three that examined the moral challenges and contradictions of slavery and their centrality in American and Atlantic history.
Source: Esquire
4/13/19
Featuring Tiya Miles, Kevin Kruse, and Heather Cox Richardson.
Source: Popular Mechanics
4/15/19
"Today everybody believes fast is good. Sometimes slow is good."
Source: Time
4/11/19
I think after Emily became a successful writer after her death, people were worried that if the public found out she loved women, the public who adored the old-maid-recluse story would stop reading her poetry.
