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
September 21, 2016
They know each other so well they finish each other’s sentences.
Source: MacArthur Foundation
September 21, 2016
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
September 20, 2016
Roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony Platt, and Heather Ann Thompson.
Source: Haaretz
September 20, 2016
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
September 19, 2016
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
September 19, 2016
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.
September 19, 2016
His publisher -- Henry Holt -- is credited with the ad.
Source: UVA Today
September 18, 2016
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
September 17, 2016
"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
September 16, 2016
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
September 15, 2016
This unlikely too-good-to-be-true story happened. Meet Douglas Hunter.
Source: New York Review of Books
September 15, 2016
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
September 14, 2016
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
September 14, 2016
The AHA cites a report that the book is “a polemic attempting to masquerade as a textbook.”
Source: The Nation
September 13, 2016
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
October 11, 2016
The book is by Cait Murphy.
Source: Process
September 6, 2016
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
September 10, 2016
by Corey Robin
At issue: whether unionizing students would lead to strikes.
Source: Democracy Now
September 8, 2016
On September 3, 1863, the U.S. Army massacred more than 300 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Source: NYT
September 6, 2016
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?
