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: Philadelphia Inquirer
4/8/19
The Historical Society cited operating deficits and a lack of financial stability as the reason for the layoffs.
Source: Labor and Working Class History Association
3/20/19
by Lara Vapnek
For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.
Source: The Atlantic
4/8/19
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
Source: Black Perspectives
4/8/19
by Marius Kothor
Why are African scholars conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies?
Source: Times Literary Supplement
3/19/19
by Manisha Sinha
Manisha Sinha on the long and eventful life of Frederick Douglass.
Source: Washington Post
4/4/19
The contribution of an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark.
Source: inside Higher Ed
4/9/19
Reichman argues, the “time for engagement is now."
Source: Quartz
4/7/19
Scientific historians are coming to terms with the fact that science thrived in part because of the transatlantic slave trade of the 1500s to 1800s.
Source: Washington Post
4/5/19
by Howell Raines
An illuminating ook review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.”
Source: Pacific Standard
4/1/19
Ken Woodley recounts the shameful history of resistance to civil rights in Prince Edward County, Virginia—and how, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the county finally began to make amends.
Source: CNN
3/29/29
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced their legislation Friday.
Source: NY Times
3/29/19
From an 80-year-old tiger trainer to the motorcycle queen of Miami, these are the stories of trailblazing women you likely didn’t learn about in school.
Source: Pacific Standard
3/27/19
When universities short change grad students, undergrads suffer too.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/1/19
Their move is casting doubt on a big faculty-diversity initiative.
Source: The Brown Daily Herald
4/1/19
The Department may revive program in future with extra year, stronger thematic focus.
Source: Air & Space Magazine
Accessed 4/2/19
by Marc Wortman
The First Airplane to Cross an Ocean
Source: Wate.com
3/27/19
The bill states that people of the Appalachian Mountains are misunderstood and their dialect is often seen as uneducated. If the bill passed, it would legitimize the Appalachian dialect.
Source: Colorado College
3/26/19
His life not only touched those who are associated with Colorado College, but his presence in the world had been one that was remarkable and inspirational.
Source: NY Times
3/29/19
From Betty Friedan to Sonia Pressman, Bella Abzug and Gerda Lerner, Jewish women had an outsize role in the feminist struggle.
Source: Black Perspectives
3/25/19
Dr. Rose’s book aims to fill an important gap in the literature on Martin Luther King Jr. by exploring King’s notions of political service.
