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
9/20/2022
Pekka Hamalainen describes a four-centuries long continental war between settlers and indigenous Americans during which the indigenous frequently won. Critics, including Native historians, contend he doesn't reckon with the ultimate consolidation of conquest.
Source: Washington Post
9/20/2022
Sports have long served as a means of inculcating the values of the dominant groups in American society, and sometimes to challenge them. The first sports-related exhibition at the National Archives Museum curates documents and artifacts to tell the story.
Source: The New Yorker
9/21/2022
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò argues that the rhetoric of diversity has allowed an "elite capture" of racial justice movements that strips those movements of the impulse to transform society. Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews his new book of essays.
Source: War on the Rocks
9/16/2022
Christopher McKnight Nichols, Raymond Haberski, Jr., and Emily Conroy-Krutz join host Jeremi Suri of the University of Texas, Austin to discuss what ideology is, and explore the ways in which it has shaped, and continues to shape, America’s role in the world.
Source: New York Review of Books
9/17/2022
"I’m always interested in the connections between past and present. The questions that interest me historically tend to come out of the moment I’m living in."
Source: The Atlantic
9/15/2022
Labor historian Erik Loomis says Biden is spending limited political capital to support workers and strikers, and that the bar for pro-labor presidencies is set extremely low.
Source: The Bulwark
9/16/2022
Concern about what happens to democracy when a society buried in information gives up on the truth and embraces alternate realities is nothing new. What does the work of Walter Lippmann tell us today?
Source: Christianity Today
9/20/2022
by Paul Emory Putz
A reviewer notes that a new book by a leading interpreter of American evangelical culture may raise important awareness about the wonderment and faith inherent in sports fandom, but leaves out some discussion of how sports support an increasingly masculinist Christianity.
Source: NPR
9/16/2022
Will other former British colonies follow the recent example of Barbados and dissociate from the postcolonial Commonwealth?
Source: Washington Post
9/16/2022
The segregationist White Citizens Councils hoped to use the media to dunk on northern liberals by sending poor African Americans north with false promises of jobs, housing and services.
Source: TIME
9/17/2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Historians involved with the PBS project wrestle with the question of whether the United States could reasonably have done more to offer asylum to Europe's Jews or to stop their mass-scale murder.
Source: New York Review of Books
9/16/2022
by Bench Ansfield
“Riotsville” was the name the Army gave to the training grounds it built, beginning in 1967, to school police departments and military personnel in the art of domestic counterinsurgency. Sierra Pettengill's new documentary tells its story.
Source: The New Yorker
9/16/2022
Is partnership with repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia a good strategy to reduce antisemitism in the Middle East?
Source: NBC News
9/12/2022
Joseph McGill Jr. links the history of the Stono Rebellion and subsequent slave uprisings to the current effort to suppress so-called Critical Race Theory in schools.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/8/2022
The historian of science has examined the social relationships of credibility that must prevail for scientific expertise to exist, and also critiqued the evolving conventions of wine-tasting terminology from "Old BS" to "New BS."
Source: American Scholar
9/14/2022
A Belgian poet took on a morbid project: a book about 13 buildings that, as matters of fact or fable, drove their architects to suicide.
Source: The Nation
9/15/2022
Along with baristas and warehouse workers, minor leaguers are organizing to fight back against poor pay and a lack of respect on the job, says labor historian Peter Rachleff.
Source: NPR
9/11/2022
Historian Arianne Chernock says that much of the late Queen's perception as a successful monarch can be attributed to her embrace of the British value of stoicism and, less positively, of stereotypically feminine qualities.
Source: NPR
9/10/2022
Art crime expert Erin Thompson wonders why museums, including the Met, have not been proactive about initiating the process of returning looted antiquities. `
Source: New York Times
9/10/2022
Clover lawns are trendy on social media. Historian Ted Steinberg says this is a reversal of a half century of industrial marketing and cultural values that have made the grass lawn a suburban goal. Environmentalists hope it continues.
