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: Vanity Fair
9-21-16
They know each other so well they finish each other’s sentences.
Source: MacArthur Foundation
9-21-16
She is an art historian and curator deepening our understanding of contemporary art of the African Diaspora and securing its place in the canons of modern and contemporary art.
Source: OAH Process blog
9-20-16
Roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony Platt, and Heather Ann Thompson.
Source: Haaretz
9-20-16
Rokhl Oyerbakh and Deborah Lipstadt, featured in two upcoming films, testify to the Jewish life and culture destroyed in WWII and challenge Holocaust denial, a depressingly renewed presence in American politics.
Source: WBUR
9-19-16
Textbooks are often thought of as a critical tool for teachers in the classroom. But when it comes to teaching the history of race in the United States, WBUR has found that more and more teachers in Massachusetts are moving away from traditional textbooks.
Source: The Seattle Times
9-19-16
The documentary, “Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War,” tells the story of a Wellesley, Massachusetts, couple who rescued refugees and dissidents in Europe before and after the start of World War II.
9-19-16
His publisher -- Henry Holt -- is credited with the ad.
Source: UVA Today
9-18-16
Historian Peter Onuf started off the first panel discussion looking at the country’s founding and key lessons from slavery up through the Civil Rights Movement.
Source: NPR
9-17-16
"My favorite response when I give a talk is for somebody to say I hadn't thought of that or I didn't know that."
Source: NYT
9-16-16
by David Singerman
"If we want to check the power of Big Sugar, we’d be well served to acknowledge the long record — past as well as present — of the industry’s machinations."
Source: Canadian Association for Graduate Studies
9-15-16
This unlikely too-good-to-be-true story happened. Meet Douglas Hunter.
Source: New York Review of Books
by Hugh Eakin
One suggestion: Rely on local preservation experts to stem the attacks and save treasures. It's worked before.
Source: The Orange County Register
9-14-16
They claim she overstepped her authority as a department chairwoman and professor by taking down the posters, suggesting that if the group had been rallying for a more traditionally liberal cause, she would have left them untouched.
Source: American Historical Association website
9-14-16
The AHA cites a report that the book is “a polemic attempting to masquerade as a textbook.”
Source: The Nation
9-13-16
In The Slave’s Cause, she offers nearly 750 impassioned pages for considering abolitionism as a longstanding progressive force in American life.
Source: Basic Books: Special to HNN
10-11-16
The book is by Cait Murphy.
Source: Process
9-6-16
Until Trump came along, Van Gosse says he couldn’t imagine the US harking back to the dark times we’ve seen before.
Source: coreyrobin.com
9-10-16
by Corey Robin
At issue: whether unionizing students would lead to strikes.
Source: Democracy Now
9-8-16
On September 3, 1863, the U.S. Army massacred more than 300 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Source: NYT
9-6-16
by Gordon S. Wood
The question raised by Taylor’s book is this: Can a revolution conceived mainly as sordid, racist and divisive be the inspiration for a nation?
