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: New York Times
11/7/2022
Education historians Jack Schneider and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explain why there's a significant overlap between parents, especially conservatives, who objected to pandemic school closures and those who are demanding more control over curriculum decisions.
Source: History Today
11/5/2022
British historians explain the enduring appeal of a festival commemorating a failed coup-by-explosion—a fortuitous combination of spectacle, seasonal change, and anti-catholicism.
Source: The Atlantic
11/8/2022
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Kerri Greenidge's new history of the Grimke family of South Carolina shows that, while sisters Sarah and Angelina left the south to advocate abolition and feminism, the institution of slavery compromised all white people connected to it.
Source: The Atlantic
11/9/2022
Henry Gerber's Society for Human Rights complicates the narrative of a gay rights struggle emerging publicly in the 1950s. If gay and lesbian Americans were organizing in the 1920s, what happened in the decades between? Jim Elledge's book seeks to explain that gap.
Source: NextCity
11/10/202
"Organizers and community members hope the museum will document the history of Chicano Park and continue educating future generations about Barrio Logan’s history."
Source: Wall Street Journal
11/8/2022
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
David Marchick has headed the Partnership for Public Service's Center for Presidential Transition; he is the author of a new book that presents his practical knowledge of what is needed for the transfer of power to run smoothly between one administration and the next.
Source: The Intercept
11/6/2022
Historian Kathleen Belew says that war affects not only veterans, but makes an entire society more receptive to the possibility of violence.
Source: Cleveland.com
11/7/2022
“I don’t want to be defiant, said Russell. “My sole purpose as a teacher is to provide my students with a holistic education and I don’t believe -- through my lived experience -- that taking away certain subjects or certain books will do so."
Source: MSNBC
11/7/2022
NBC Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss and NYU History Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat discuss the concept of fascism and the danger facing the U.S with American Voices host Alicia Menendez.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
11/4/2022
Twitter heavyweight Kevin Kruse says there is a danger that proposed changes to account verification could erode trust on the site, which could make him bail out. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Mark Anthony Neal note many scholars like them have invested too much in their networks to make the decision lightly.
Source: The Atlantic
11/2/2022
Vann Newkirk, whose work inspired "Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power" examines how a conservative white minority fought to keep power even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act
Source: Banished (Substack)
11/1/2022
Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder discuss the implications of the Florida legislature's intervention into the teaching of history.
Source: New York Times
11/2/2022
Historian Matt Guariglia of the Electronic Frontier Foundation warns that the cozy relationship between tech companies and police departments threatens to make camera footage less private according to the wishes of law enforcement.
Source: Christianity Today
10/31/2022
Historian John Fea and other scholars discuss how the idea of Christian nationalism evokes different understandings of religion in history and how that history should guide the future.
Source: The Atlantic
11/2/2022
"Too Much Information" is a social error that arises from the need for individuals to determine their own boundaries and match their expression to others'. But longing for firmer rules of etiquette should be tempered by understanding how those rules were based in ideas about whose voices should be heard.
Source: Washington Post
11/2/2022
Peniel Joseph's book looks to the past struggles to define and achieve freedom and equality to ask what America's Third Reconstruction – begun with Obama's election and attacked since– must do to survive and advance.
Source: The Nation
10/26/2022
The podcasters insist on looking at how the lives of historical figures outside of the narrative of liberal progress shed light on LGBTQ history, from colonizer Cecil Rhodes to Nazi Ernst Röhm to McCarthyist Roy Cohn.
Source: The Ringer
10/27/2022
The noted legal scholar discusses Critical Race Theory, anti-intellectualism in politics, and new work in African American political studies with host Bakari Sellers.
Source: Harvard Gazette
10/27/2022
From Douglass to DuBois, African American intellectuals have pushed for the theory of American republicanism to wrestle with the conflict between racial domination and political equality.
Source: The New Yorker
10/26/2022
by Hua Hsu
Often wrongly called a "prophet of doom," Mike Davis worked to show how digging up the past could point the way to a humane future.
