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: The Guardian
6/8/2022
The pioneering educator recognized that Black students needed a curriculum that transmitted knowledge but also countered the prevailing ideology of racial hierarchy. A new biography shows how progress in education is never fully secure.
Source: The Varsity
6/3/2022
A postdoctoral researcher investigating the involvement of two of Cambridge's colleges in the slave trade reported pressure from senior fellows who objected to focus on the past faults of the institution.
Source: N + 1
6/1/2022
by Erik Baker
New books wrestle with the rise and collapse of the 1960s New Left and the gulf between its aspirations and achievements, and assess whether 1960s radical intellectuals are responsible for present-day neoliberalism.
Source: The New Yorker
6/4/2022
by Jelani Cobb
Mamie Till's decision to place her son's open casket in the national media shone a light on Jim Crow atrocities, but it's unclear that showing the victims of gun massacres – even children – is making any difference. Photos of hundreds of lynching victims only encouraged their killers.
Source: Tablet
6/6/2022
by Ari Hoffman
Books by Omri Boehm and Yossi Shain take diametrically opposed positions on the historical and contemporary merits of Zionism as institutionalized in the Israeli state, and signal the growth of a polarization in the American Jewish community.
Source: Christianity Today
6/7/2022
by Daniel N. Gullotta
Thomas Kidd's intellectual and spiritual biography of Jefferson engages with the contradictions of the ideals he proclaimed and seeks to engage with the ambiguities of his subject in ways that defy both iconoclasm and hagiography.
Source: Dissent
6/1/2022
A new book looks at a planned Black-led city in North Carolina as a missed opportunity for establishing political and economic power; a left critic says the project proceeded from bad premises that liberation could be achieved through capitalism.
Source: Forbes
6/3/2022
by Marybeth Gasman
Historian Ellen Schrecker's new book examines how the antiwar movement led the right to mobilize against universities, and the costs of that battle.
Source: The Atlantic
6/2/2022
The bicycle since its invention has found itself at the center of debates about who public space is for.
Source: Vox
5/27/2022
Despite its characterization as liberal and cosmopolitan, the film industry has eagerly embraced the military in the pursuit of box office.
Source: The Atlantic
5/31/2022
The Senator says that large-scale student debt relief would leave in place the dysfunctional features of higher education. Find out what he, presumably in a position to do something, thinks would work better.
Source: Crooked Media
5/2/2022
Former Barack Obama Communications Director and Pod Save America host Dan Pfeiffer is joined by Professor of History at Princeton University Kevin Kruse to break down the Most Famous Political Ads of All Time.
Source: Public Books
5/30/2022
The author of a popular and rigorous history of modern conservatism discusses the influence of the prolific public intellectual on his research and writing.
Source: The New Yorker
6/2/2022
American cyclists and pedestrians are the victims of a century-long political campaign to reorganize public space around the needs of drivers, according to historian Peter Norton. Activists including the families of traffic victims are fighting to change that.
Source: KCUR
5/31/2022
The lead industry's trade association encouraged the public to think of lead poisoning as a problem affecting the urban poor as a strategy to stop regulation of their hazardous product, argues historian Gerald Markowitz.
Source: The Nation
5/24/2022
"In terms of repression and resistance, it takes people and communities time to understand what is happening to them."
Source: NPR
5/27/2022
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Russian history professor Sergey Radchenko of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, about the state of the Russian economy after three months of war.
Source: Salon
5/31/2022
by Kathryn Gin Lum
Under the banner of "classical education" and civics, the far right is funding a growing number of academic centers to advance conservative views. Historians Michael Butler, Nancy MacLean and Bethany Moreton comment.
Source: The New Republic
5/30/2022
by Audrey Clare Farley
White evangelicals need to come to grips with the way that institutional racism gives rise to sexual abuse.
Source: Washington Post
5/24/2022
by Gillian Brockell
When the District abolished slavery, it compensated more than 900 former enslavers for the emancipation of more than 3,000 people. The formerly enslaved got nothing.
