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 Nation
3/9/2022
Activist and police abolitionist Derecka Purnell's book draws on personal and academic history to push readers to question what they think an ideal society looks like, and whether police forces are an instrument for achieving it.
Source: Washington Post
3/8/2022
The Smithsonian will return works that it has legal title to own but that are linked to an infamous British raid on Benin City in 1897.
Source: Terra Nullius
2/22/2022
"Silicon Valley tech culture seems convinced that its projects and schemes are new, innovative and sui generis… and they are not."
Source: The Nation
3/4/2022
Does patriotism help people on the left engage with the democratic process, ensuring it isn't dominated by the right? Or does it stop people from developing the international consciousness needed to address the world's problems?
Source: New York Historical Society
3/6/2022
The Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce its spring 2022 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty.
Source: Vox
3/4/2022
Medical historian Nadja Durbach and philosopher Maya Goldenberg explain that challenges posed by vaccine resistance and mistrust of health authorities are not new; the lesson to learn isn't that resistance is inevitable, but that some of the social conflicts supporting it can be addressed.
Source: The Atlantic
3/8/2022
In absolute and relative terms, The United States has fared horribly in the coronavirus pandemic. Historians and social scientists help writer Ed Yong explain why the nation meets mass death with a collective shrug.
Source: Jerusalem Post
8/10/2008
by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Russian incursions into Georgia in 2008 gave strong clues to the playbook for the invasion of Ukraine and efforts to justify it.
Source: YouTube
3/4/2022
Historian Heather Cox Richardson talks with President Joe Biden about his views on American democracy in the 21st century.
Source: TIME
3/3/2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Omer Bartov and Jeffrey Veidlinger, discuss the specific history of postwar "denazification" and how that process has been misappropriated to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Source: The Atlantic
3/3/2022
Alex Wellerstein discusses how his interactive site allows users to see what would happen to a place hit by a nuclear warhead, and why this week many Americans have been "nuking" their own hometowns.
Source: Notches
3/3/2022
"People born with bodily differences that fall outside the bounds of “normal” have suffered tremendously, as physicians have tried to “fix” their bodies and their psyches to fit into a narrow conception of acceptability."
Source: Washington Post
3/2/2022
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds's response to SOTU was heavy on recent culture war themes. Historian Eric Rauchway says that if Biden can repeat the performance of leadership by FDR in the face of the rising threat of fascism, these tactics might be irrelevant.
Source: WTTW
2/26/2022
Both industry and local realtors were key players in the development of La Villita in southwest Chicago.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
2/28/2022
Dunn, among other achievements, founded what is now the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Source: American Historical Association
3/1/2022
David Engerman moderates a panel discussion of the histories of Russia and Ukraine, the impact of the end of the Cold War on relations between the nations, and how to understand the invasion in context. Of particular interest to students and teachers.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
2/27/2022
Putin's claims to be protecting Ukrainians from domestic fascism will fail as propaganda, says Jason Stanley, who calls Russian Christian nationalism the real threat to Jews in Ukraine.
Source: Jewish Journal
2/27/2022
"We strongly reject the Russian government’s cynical abuse of the term genocide, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, and the equation of the Ukrainian state with the Nazi regime to justify its unprovoked aggression."
Source: TIME
3/1/2022
by Gillian Brockell
The Dan David Prize has defined its focus as supporting historians, in recognition of the public significance of historical knowledge and the political and institutional attacks on the discipline and its practitioners.
Source: The Atlantic
3/1/2022
by John Dickerson
Michael Kazin's new history of the Democratic Party hints at a possible path for Biden to manage Democratic dissention, Republican intransigence, and challenges domestic and international.
