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: Washington Post
3/7/19
In her research and teaching, she pored over the records left by women who received little if any public attention during their lives but whose diaries, letters and other writings vividly revealed the eras in which they lived.
Source: Forbes
3/7/19
“To paraphrase Harriett Tubman,” she says, “you want change in your life, don't be afraid to trouble the waters.”
Source: Inside Higher Education
3/6/19
Professor at university Dinesh D'Souza says "nobody's heard of" instructs him on the mission of smaller, access-oriented private institutions.
Source: NPR
3/6/19
Modern Indigenous American history is a history of resistance.
Source: Them
3/5/19
by Hugh Ryan
From a gay Nazi spy sex scandal to its WWII antifascist queer intelligentsia scene, a new book reveals that Brooklyn has always been a surprisingly queer haven.
Source: The Guardian
3/3/`9
The authors detail the life of a woman who refused to be a possession of the nation’s first president and the Michigan city’s troubled past.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
3/4/19
New video shows exactly what was said during a heated discussion at the annual gathering of classicists in January. Does it change anything?
Source: The Guardian
3/4/19
Only by engaging with ‘real ugliness’ can healing begin, Liza Dale-Hallett says.
Source: Black Perspectives
3/4/19
Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history published by an AAIHS member in 2018.
Source: Smithsonian.com
3/4/19
Before hot Lincoln, there was ripped Washington, nude Napoleon and muscular ancient Greek sculptures
Source: New Yorker
Accessed 3/5/19
What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.
Source: New York Times
3/1/19
For more than 20 years Mr. Li was deputy director and then director of the Institute of History, part of the Chinese Academy of Social Science — positions of unusual influence.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
3/1/19
Read articles about the trailblazers, scroll through timelines of women’s achievements, view videos, test your knowledge in quizzes, and discover the key issues.
Source: New York Times
3/1/19
Rutger Bregman is part of a wider wave of young thinkers who will not accept piecemeal technocratic responses to the economic and ecological challenges of our age.
Source: The Activist History Review
Accessed 3/4/19
by Bill Horne
"Their work shows a way in which we might rethink history 'from below,' not just as academic research on marginalized groups, but as scholarship written by non-scholars, activists, and members of disenfranchised communities."
Source: NY Times
2/26/19
Her New Book Speaks Plainly About the Large Role White Women Played in Perpetuating Slavery.
Source: Washington Post
2/26/19
In addition to writing two books on jazz history, Mr. Gitler helped critic Leonard Feather compile the comprehensive “The Encyclopedia of Jazz,” first published in 1960.
Source: Forbes
2/26/19
His most depressing observation is that we may be stuck in a downward spiral.
Source: Columbia Spectator
2/25/19
After decades of activism surrounding the University’s lack of dedicated scholarship to issues of race and ethnicity, Columbia approved its first African American and African Diaspora studies department last fall.
Source: Patheos
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