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: Mother Jones
3/28/2022
Historian Paul Renfro explains the rising fears of child abduction in the 1980s and the way those fears have been used politically.
Source: The New Republic
3/28/2022
by Jack Sheehan
Fintan O'Toole's acclaimed popular history of modern Ireland delivers a sharp indictment of child abuse by Catholic priests and the operators of reform schools and institutions, but substitutes national-level psychoanalysis for research in other areas, a historian argues.
Source: Washington Post
3/28/2022
Betsy Prioleau's book details the scandalous life and political impact of Mrs. Frank Leslie, who legally changed her name to that of her late husband and built a publishing empire.
Source: New York Magazine
3/28/2022
For a certain left-leaning online audience, Tooze's rigorous approach is beating out ironic smartassery and the shallower efforts of some self-styled "explainers" to build a potent public intellectual brand.
Source: Jewish Currents
3/28/2022
A team of historians and Jewish and Russian Studies scholars introduce a project to examine the more recent history of Jews in the former Soviet Union.
Source: American Historical Association
3/28/2022
"The AHA, its members, and other historians find ourselves on the front lines of a conflict over America's past, up against opponents who are actively promoting ignorance in the name of unity."
Source: The Metropole
3/28/2022
by Bob Carey
A new book examines the growth of the Kiryas Joel community of Hasidic Jews in rural New York State, and the tension between religious community and secular power.
Source: Rolling Stone
3/27/2022
"In a very real sense, Clarence and Ginni Thomas are answerable only to Clarence and Ginni Thomas. The Trump Administration gave us all a hard lesson in how few actual rules bind the behavior of our national leaders."
Source: San Francisco Classical Voice
3/20/2022
"Our information and cultural history may not be as secure as we believe it to be."
Source: CBN
3/22/2022
A panel of historians and other experts in the Netherlands concluded that the investigators had relied on poor readings of sources and fabrication to name a fellow Amsterdam Jew as the person who betrayed the Franks' hiding place to the Nazis.
Source: The Atlantic
3/23/2022
Is the relative weakness of today's Russian state compared to the Soviet Union a risk factor for escalation that was missing during the Cold War?
Source: Public Books
3/22/2022
"Marchiel’s narrative paints the picture of a remarkably powerful national reinvestment campaign against an almost unstoppable force of ever more inventive flows of capital. Perhaps the lesson should have been that capitalism refuses to work for people."
Source: Washington Post
3/24/2022
Did Putin interpret the January 6 attack on the Capitol as evidence that American democracy and the Biden administration were too fracture and weak to coordinate a response to the invasion of Ukraine?
Source: Der Spiegel
3/17/2022
"For Putin, Russia has long since ceased being a country in the standard sense; it is a kind of historic, 1,000-year-old body."
Source: Current
3/11/2022
"American secularism was the result of a layered religious conflict in the 20th century that played out in the courts and that left the U.S. Supreme Court with no option but the adoption of a secular order as a condition of social peace and political equality."
Source: War on The Rocks
3/22/2022
by Michael J. Mazarr
When foreign policy decisions are presented as imperative – that some action must be taken – consideration for the consequences is often neglected.
Source: Democracy Now!
3/21/2022
The historian of international relations predicts that the Ukraine invasion and NATO's response will have the effect of tying Russia and China together in an alliance that will reshape the dynamics of international relations, trade, and military power.
Source: Washington Post
3/18/2022
by David Greenberg
Historian Lily Geismer's book is meant as a sharp criticism of Clintonian economic policy, but ignores the broad range of policies and the record of reduced poverty, says one reviewer.
Source: The Atlantic
3/14/2022
O'Toole's "personal history" of Ireland shows that the Republic sought both modern prosperity and traditional values, but could secure only one.
Source: The.Ink
3/17/2022
Historian of America in the world Stephen Wertheim and Anand Giridharadas discuss the invasion of Ukraine and the way that American policymakers are wrestling with the limits of American power against a nuclear rival.
