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: Los Angeles Review of Books
7/20/2022
by Lauren Goldenberg
Isaac Butler has recently published an acclaimed book on the rise of the method school of acting and its origins with Konstantin Stanislavski's "system" of training the inner creative life of actors.
Source: New York Review of Books
7/21/2022
by Robert Kuttner
Gary Gerstle's new history aims to define the political order that began under Jimmy Carter and resulted in the overturning of New Deal liberalism for the empty promises of a market society, with the power of the state insulating capitalism from democracy.
Source: Slate
7/4/2022
The concept of heathenism has always served to distinguish Americans as a group deserving of their good fortune and apart from others in need of transformation, either by persuasion or by violence.
Source: Politico
6/25/2022
Historians Keisha Blain, Daniel K. Williams, John Fea, Leslie Reagan and Randall Balmer are among the scholars asked to explain how the Dobbs decision will remake American life for women, the poor, minorities, and those who might experience cultural conflict.
Source: The Atlantic
7/5/2022
"Wherever our current catastrophe is headed, it has been good to Adam Tooze, he tells me with some bewilderment."
Source: OAH
7/6/2022
"We expect that historians will continue to correct the Court’s misinterpretation about the history of legalized abortion in the US in their own research, teaching, and public speaking, while also addressing the multifaceted dilemmas presented by this decision."
Source: The Root
7/6/2022
Robert Cassanello is challenging Florida's "Stop WOKE" Act, contending it makes it illegal for him to teach his courses on civil rights history and Reconstruction.
Source: Politico
6/26/2022
by Joshua Zeitz
"The functional problem with originalism is that it requires a very, very firm grasp of history — a grasp that none of the nine justices, and certainly few of their 20-something law clerks, freshly minted from J.D. programs, possess."
Source: Nursing Clio
6/30/2022
This is a selection from an in-progress project to develop a collectively-sourced syllabus for the history of reproduction and reproductive rights and freedom.
Source: Legal History Blog
6/30/2022
This is a note identifying the legal history sources cited in both Elena Kagan's dissent and Neil Gorsuch's concurrence in the court's ruling limiting the power of the EPA to limit emissions.
Source: National Geographic
6/24/2022
Historians like Jules Gill-Peterson argues that the history of transgender people is often hiding in plain sight, and contains as many moments of joy as of discrimination or misunderstanding.
Source: CNBC
6/26/2022
Josh Lauer has researched a book on the history of credit reporting, which shows that for much of the history of personal credit decisions were subjective and decentralized.
Source: The New Yorker
6/23/2022
Isaac Chotiner interviews law professor and legal historian Adam Winkler on the selective use of history in the New York state gun rights decision.
Source: Governing
6/16/2022
The historian argues that the "creative class" explanation for urban resurgence focuses on affluent white professionals while ignoring the role of Latino immigrants in revitalizing urban communities.
Source: NPR
6/23/2022
Law professor Mary Ziegler explains how the anti-abortion movement upended the GOP establishment and helped push the courts to the right. Her new book is Dollars for Life.
Source: Dissent
6/27/2022
While the media pays significant attention to the influence of social media platforms, the structure of the internet is dicated by the privatization of the physical architecture of the internet since the 1990s.
Source: Current
6/27/2022
A panel of Evangelical scholars considers the impact of the end of the Roe v. Wade era.
Source: The Baffler
6/27/2022
Presented with the manifest failure of a peaceful global liberal order after the end of the Cold War, Fukuyama now simply argues that people have failed classical liberalism.
Source: MSNBC
6/15/2022
Kathleen Belew, an expert on white nationalist paramilitary groups, talks with Rachel Maddow about why individual incidents with racist extremist groups should be seen as part of a single, larger groundswell.
6/15/2022
by Alexandra Minna Stern
The alt-right groups represented at the Capitol on January 6 drew organizing power from online communities where grievance politics around race and gender flourished. Key features were heavy doses of irony that gave deniability to violent rhetoric and extreme misogyny.
