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: Smithsonian
8/1/2022
The prize jurors noted the publication stands out given its “academic rigor, historical understanding and contemporary relevance that characterize the highest achievements in our field.”
Source: BBC
7/31/2022
On 9 February 1955 apartheid South Africa forcibly evicted residents from Sophiatown, a multi-racial suburb in Johannesburg. 65,000 people were ‘removed’ and Sophiatown was demolished and turned into a whites-only neighbourhood called Triomf.
Source: Museum of African American History
8/1/2022
The nominees reflect diverse scholarly approaches to Black history across time periods and subjects, including public health, slavery, public history, pedagogy, reproduction, and politics.
Source: Los Angeles Times
8/1/2022
LA Times Columnist Jean Guerrero checks with legal historian Ian Haney López about the resurgence of openly white identity politics on the mainstream right as pundits and candidates abandon the idea of protecting a level playing field to say whites need protection.
Source: The Nation
8/1/2022
by Jacob Bruggeman
The most striking lesson from the history of failed attempts to create societies without states is that the libertarian impulse to strip the state of its power to control capital has already profoundly reshaped every society on earth.
Source: Politico
7/26/2022
by Allison Orr Larsen
The Supreme Court's embrace of historical arguments for its decisions is dangerous, because motivated advocacy groups, not scholars, are the source of much of it.
Source: WDET
7/22/2022
Karen Marrero of Wayne State University discusses how oral traditions have kept indigenous histories alive even as many physical markers of that history have been destroyed.
Source: KERA
7/21/2022
Kidd's new book examines the ways that slavery and religion complicate the moral picture of the founder.
Source: History Today
7/28/2022
The loosening of state control over Cuba's economy has delivered most benefits to white Cubans with relatives sending remittances from the United States to start businesses in Cuba. Afro-Cubans and migrants from poorer provinces have suffered.
Source: New Books Network
7/12/2022
A fateful decision by American slaveowners shaped the landscape of the south: working to maximize the productivity of each enslaved laborer, instead of safeguarding the long-term productiveness of the land.
Source: Texas Standard
7/22/2022
Louis Dean Valencia realized during the pandemic that icebreaking conversations with students about pop music opened up many avenues for discussing historical subjects including the politics of celebrity.
Source: Newsweek
7/23/2022
Domestic politicians warning of the danger Russia faces from the stalled Ukraine war are partly trying to rally nationalistic fervor and partly positioning themselves for a possible struggle for power in the event that Putin loses control.
Source: San Francisco Examiner
7/19/2022
“What I expect Stanford to do, as I always expected, is that they’ll ignore it,” says Richard White, whose new book argues that the university's president David Starr Jordan covered up murder and spread the lie that founder Jane Stanford died of natural causes in order to preserve her bequest.
Source: Washington Post
7/19/2022
That initiative, led by Howard University’s Sterling Brown, included a plan to interview thousands of formerly enslaved people across the South before they died.
Source: CNN
7/21/2022
Historian Thomas Zimmer says that the wave of accusations that drag performers are "grooming" children for sexual abuse is part of a broader reactionary project that seeks to reinforce multiple rigid social hierarchies and put straight white men at the top.
Source: We've Got Issues Podcast
7/22/2022
Historian Thomas Zimmer tells Joshua Holland that there is a consensus among experts that American democracy is teetering on the brink of collapse -- but there is a reason for hope.
Source: Public Seminar
7/25/2022
Michael Hattem discusses his book which argues that the creation of a particularly American historical memory was a nation-building project that began from the first moments of independence.
Source: Public Books
7/19/2022
Robert Lee of Cambridge University discusses his work documenting the treaty-like arrangements by which universities appropriated indigenous lands to build their endowments, an understudied aspect of the land-grant university system.
Source: Religion News Service
7/18/2022
Since the early 1990s ascendancy of the Christian Right, the movement has drawn on David Barton's assertion that the separation of church and state is bogus. A new generation of conservatives is embracing this line on the campaign trail today.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
7/20/2022
Higher ed historian Davarian Baldwin says that Fairfield University's plan to develop a low-cost Associates Degree college will be an incomplete solution to the problems of uneven development in Bridgeport, Connecticut (a problem that is partly fueled by the operation of private universities).
