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: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/19/2022
by Vanita Seth
Historians of the medieval and modern periods disagree about whether documented prejudices in earlier eras are "racism" or whether the term necessarily implies modernity.
Source: NPR
8/17/2022
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University, about Liz Cheney's political career after her Wyoming primary loss, and the political dynasties.
Source: Jacobin
8/21/2022
Although it is often linked to the rise of Black Power movements in the late 1960s, evidence shows that state authorities were working to eliminate civil rights organizing among Black prisoners as early as the 1950s.
Source: Salon
8/19/2022
Historian of fascism Federico Finchelstein says that the Trump World response to the search warrant exposes their core belief that Trump's leadership supersedes the rule of law and justifies any response to maintain it.
Source: TIME
8/22/2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Sixty schools are participating in a pilot of the first new AP course since 2014, which arrives at a time when teaching critical perspectives on American racism is under attack.
Source: New York Times
8/18/2022
“We were clearly aware of appraisal discrimination,” said Dr. Nathan Connolly, 44. “But to be told in so many words that our presence and the life we’ve built in our home brings the property value down? It’s an absolute gut punch.”
Source: Civil Eats
7/27/2022
The Elaine Massacre was one incident a longer process of land theft from Black farmers in Arkansas, using instruments ranging from fraudulent records to mob violence.
Source: The New Yorker
8/15/2022
by Louis Menand
In a review essay of several books diagnosing the maladies of American democracy, Louis Menand concludes that the system itself is working as designed: to thwart popular rule.
Source: BBC
8/15/2022
More than 500 princely states contained 40 percent of the population of British India. Independence depended on convincing their rulers to integrate to the new nation. VP Menon did more than almost anyone else to make that happen.
Source: WORT
8/12/2022
Will Alex Jones's expensive defeat in court slow down the spread of conspiratorialism in right-wing media?
Source: TIME
8/16/2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Meg Jacobs, Gregory Brew and Kai Bird discuss the similar economic and international contexts of the two presidencies, and suggest that Biden may, like Carter, ultimately be more effective than he is given credit for.
Source: The Trace
8/5/2022
Lax disclosure rules about who funds the groups filing amicus briefs means that the NRA has been able to use its wealth to flood the courts with briefs that exaggerate the strength of its radical pro-gun positions, says historian Patrick J. Charles.
Source: Washington CityPaper
8/11/2022
Rescued from a dumpster minutes before the arrival of the garbage truck, Ray Honda's photographs captured DC at the dawn of the civil rights era and the vibrant Black culture of the city.
Source: NPR
8/10/2022
Members of the Wampanoag nation say that Plimoth Patuxet Museums has failed to honor a pledge to create a truly bicultural museum depicting indigenous history respectfully.
Source: Washington Post
8/14/2022
As victory over Germany approached, Truman's economic and military advisors debated whether to begin to divert resources back into civilian production to ease what promised to be a difficult economic reconversion.
Source: Minnesota Public Radio
8/12/2022
"Many Americans don’t know that the histories of the United States and Mexico are inseparably intertwined. But historian Kelly Lytle Hernández says you cannot fully understand one without the other."
Source: Smithsonian
8/9/2022
A trade catalog for a grocery counter that could store bulk goods like beans and eliminate superfluous packaging was pitched as a patriotic way to save materials for the war effort, and speaks to contemporary desires to cut down on packaging waste.
Source: The Conversation
8/9/2022
"The archivists probably have a really keen idea of what is and what isn’t missing, based upon things that they’ve gotten out of other offices, like the vice president’s office and things that got deposited from the secretary of state, for example."
Source: The Nation
8/9/2022
Long overshadowed by compatriot (and brother-in-law) William F. Buckley, Bozell's aggressive advocacy of theocratic reaction was a key wellspring of resurgent Christian nationalism, particularly its Catholic varieties.
Source: ABC News
8/7/2022
Longone's recovery of cookbooks from immigrant and ethnic communities highlighted both diversity in American food culture and the labor of women in organizing it.
