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: Politico
4/16/2022
"The other big story is that his agenda and his methods are being continued at the state level. These states are really laboratories of autocracy now, like Florida, Texas."
Source: Washington Post
4/18/2022
The firings suggest that there is a backlash by members of the Montpelier board against recent changes in the presentation of James Madison's participation in slavery.
Source: National Trust for Historic Preservation
4/18/2022
"The National Trust strongly condemns these actions against highly regarded and nationally recognized professionals, which will impede the effective stewardship of Montpelier and diminish important public programming at this highly significant historic site."
Source: Reason
4/18/2022
"In the century and a half after the founding, saloons continued to be a key social institution, places of business, leisure, and community for many men—until Prohibition wiped them out, destroying in one fell stroke the cultural and economic infrastructure they had long provided."
Source: The New Yorker
4/11/2022
by Louis Menand
Richard Cohen's "Making History: The Storytellers who Shaped the Past" puts the subjectivity of the historian at the center of how history becomes a modern society's set of myths about itself.
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
4/13/2022
A look at the Easter week headlines from a century ago shows the casual respectability of the Klan among white Texas christians.
Source: Washington Post
4/12/2022
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. is at the brink of winning the presidency in the Philippines, partly because of social media campaigns denying the atrocities committed by his father's regime.
Source: Slate
4/12/2022
by Paul M. Renfro
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump is an ambitious and compelling book, one that covers a great deal of territory, but sometimes is hindered by the ongoing tendency of its subject to focus on himself, says historian Paul Renfro.
Source: The Nation
4/13/2022
"Will new political movements emerge with the strength to compel a serious redistribution of wealth away from elites and toward the masses without reproducing the tyranny that became so intrinsic to communism? This is one of the key questions of our time."
Source: NBC News
4/13/2022
Historians Lillian Faderman, Hugh Ryan and Julio Capó, Jr. trace the links between the Christian entertainer's claims that gay teachers threatened children and the effort to portray them as "groomers" for child abuse today. Also, video of Bryant being hit with a pie.
Source: Mother Jones
4/10/2022
The acquisition of many skeletal specimens by museums was entangled with the harvesting of tissues from the bodies of the socially marginalized.
Source: WBUR
4/12/2022
Julian Zelizer is the editor of a collection of essays by an all-star lineup of historians taking stock of the Trump presidency. He discusses the book and the challenges of putting the recent, contested past in perspective.
Source: Age of Revolutions
4/11/2022
"I knew history buffs would want a narrative, and I was happy to provide one, since one of my main points is that women’s, Indigenous, military, and all the other histories transpired on the same timeline, constantly influencing each other."
Source: Washington Post
4/8/2022
by Aram Goudsouzian
Unlike a typical biography, Kostya Kennedy's "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson" looks at four years of the baseball legend's life and his changin civil rights advocacy.
Source: The New Republic
4/11/2022
Recent books on "strongmen" reduce the problem of authoritarianism to the phenomenon of charismatic leadership and ignore many of the structural factors contributing to democratic collapse.
Source: Axios
4/4/2022
The biography of Perales comes at a time when Texas conservatives are pushing to limit the teaching of histories of racial discrimination.
Source: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
4/11/2022
Today, Gary Gerstle discusses the fall of the neoliberal political order in a discussion with Lizabeth Cohen and Kristina Spohr as part of the National History Center's Washington History Seminar.
Source: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
4/8/2022
"On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals."
Source: Organization of American Historians
4/9/2022
The Organization of American Historians has released its 2022 honorees for scholarship, service, and contributions to history.
Source: Black Perspectives
4/6/2022
Justene Hill Edwards and Daniel Immerwahr discuss the relationship between the global transformations of capital, empire and slavery and the history of freedom and unfreedom.
