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: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
September 15, 2017
Books include Erica Armstrong Dunbar's “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge” and Nancy MacLean's “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.
Source: Black Perspectives
September 4, 2017
by Michael Guasco
Historian Michael Guasco says it’s a mistake, noting that by then 500,000 blacks had already crossed the Atlantic against their will.
Source: Inside Higher ED
September 14, 2017
by Jonathan Zimmerman
While we may not agree with what she says, we in academe should defend her right to say it, he argues.
Source: Process
September 14, 2017
by Christian G. Appy
He commends Burns for his long focus on history, but has reservations about the series.
Source: NYT
September 13, 2017
Harvard faculty accepted her too, but then school officials stepped in and overruled the decision.
Source: The Panorama
September 13, 2017
by John Fea
In class this historian is helping students grapple with the difference between history and nostalgia, and the way Trump’s campaign used the past as a tool to win supporters in the present.
Source: Smithsonian
September 12, 2017
by Christopher Wilson
Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.
September 13, 2017
The site features stories in the news with links to other relevant stories. In this video he explains what it's about.
Source: mlivecom
September 12, 2017
Tiya Miles’s op ed on the subject, “The South Doesn’t Own Slavery,” drew more than 500 comments in the NYT.
Source: The Dartmouth
September 11, 2017
The college rebuked him without giving him a chance to clarify that he doesn’t embrace violence except as self-defense.
Source: Hartford Courant
September 11, 2017
“In another two years, my students are going to have absolutely no emotional connection or memory of 9/11 at all. The subject is merely going to be another history class to them." – Matthew Warshauer
Source: Inside Higher ED
September 6, 2017
The digital humanities pioneer forges on with multiple projects, including an update to his acclaimed Valley of the Shadow project.
Source: NYT
September 10, 2017
The writer and historian arrived in Afghanistan in 1962 and devoted decades of her life to preserving the country’s heritage during some of its darkest times.
Source: Salon
September 2, 2017
by Jim Sleeper
One line of attack: He’s playing into the hands of a well-funded conservative campaign to highlight examples of political correctness that distract us from real injustices.
Source: LA Times
September 8, 2017
by Mark Oppenheimer
"A small group of self-appointed vigilantes has mounted a scurrilous campaign demanding [David] Myers’ ouster, claiming without any basis, that he holds anti-Israel views."
Source: The Washington Post
September 6, 2017
by Christopher Petrella
Bates College’s Christopher Petrella says DACA is vulnerable not because it’s amnesty, but because it’s amnesty for Latinos.
Source: Vanity Fair
September 7, 2017
The list includes: A. Scott Berg, Robert Dallek, Jon Meacham, Edmund Morris, Stacy Schiff, and Garry Wills.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
September 3, 2017
by Christine Adams
"Tyranny does not arrive in one fell swoop.”
Source: The Conversation
September 5, 2017
by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
By holding a mirror up to society and reflecting its aspirations and shortcomings, alternative histories can advance our national dialogue about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, says Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.
Source: The Washington Post
September 5, 2017
by Max Boot
"The result of all this hate-mongering is that for the first time, I no longer feel like a “real” American.”
