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: Washington Post
5/8/2023
A prolific public intellectual, Steel wrote influential critiques of America's cold war foreign policy, calling military buildups wasteful and counterproductive. This led him to his masterwork, a biography of the influential newspaper columnist, a major shaper of 20th century American politics.
Source: Miami New Times
5/4/2023
"We will not allow DeSantis to kill our history," says Marvin Dunn. "We just won't allow it. We will take our history directly to the parents if that's what's required, and apparently, it is what is required."
Source: New York Times
5/5/2023
“There is a growing gap between Britain’s perception of its own empire and how it’s perceived everywhere else,” said William Dalrymple, a prominent historian of British India. “And that gap keeps growing.”
Source: WABE
5/8/2023
By outsourcing collection of delinquent taxes to private investors, Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, takes away incentives to keep people in their homes. Housing scholar Dan Immergluck says allowing private speculators to auction off properties is driving unaffordable housing and gentrification
Source: New York Times
5/8/2023
Historian Karin Wulf argues that the leadership of Colonial Williamsburg has steered an effective course through the conflicting imperatives of nostalgia, heroic storytelling, and the harsh inequalities of the colonial era.
Source: NPR
5/7/2023
The historian of Mexico notes that the US-Mexico border was formed by an American military invasion, and has been in a militarized state since politicians have linked migration to national security concerns like drugs and terrorism.
Source: The Guardian
5/6/2023
A DuBois biographer discusses the work of tracing the great intellectual's life and work, and the experience of reading an unpublished and unfinished manuscript.
Source: Galveston Daily News
5/3/2023
The suit by J.P. Bryan, a retired oilman and the executive director of the private Texas State Historical Association, which produces many important educational materials, claims that the board has too many academics and is too critical of the Anglo settlers of the state. Historian Nancy Baker Jones, the TSHA President, is the principal target.
Source: NPR
4/29/2023
Is the debt ceiling, which has been raised 78 times since being established by Congress during World War I, a useful periodic reminder of fiscal restraint or an outdated relic that has become a weapon for partisan extortionists? Kathleen Day discusses the ceiling with NPR's Scott Simon.
Source: The New Republic
5/4/2023
Political "orders," rather than election cycles, are a key way to understand big political shifts, like the rise and dismantling of the New Deal in America.
Source: Washington Post
5/2/2023
Vinson, who attended high school in Washington D.C. and was a dean at the George Washington University, returns to the District with goals of vaulting the university into the top ranks of research institutions.
Source: New York Times
5/2/2023
“Our country held hands with the U.S. in an alliance and we knew that its soldiers were here to help us, but that didn’t mean that they could do whatever they wanted to us, did it?”
Source: Washington Post
4/27/2023
Peggy O'Donnell Heffington makes an assertive argument that the United States has a long history of official involvement in motherhood, from making reproduction near-compulsory for white women on one side of the color line to eugenics and sterilization on the other.
Source: PEN America
5/2/2023
Matthew Garrett, a self-proclaimed conservative and tenured professor, was fired for cause by his institution after many cases of controversial speech and some alleged violations of university policy. The university's "kitchen sink" claim against him undermines academic freedom and faculty free speech rights.
Source: New York Times
4/28/2023
Germany stands alone among European nations in protecting many Soviet-era monuments in the former East Germany. Honoring victims of Nazis has long been a reason, but this has been complicated by German support for Ukraine after its invasion by Russia.
Source: Jacobin
4/30/2023
The defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964 was supposed to mark the demise of the conspiratorial right. Matthew Dallek's book explains how the fringe rose to dominate the Republican Party in 2024, in part because of the shortsightedness of liberal elites.
Source: Contingent
4/30/2023
The series editor for the Papers of John Adams at the Massachusetts Historical Society discusses her work as a public historian.
Source: The Conversation
4/25/2023
While hardly representative of all veterans, the far right in the 20th and 21st centuries has actively recruited former military members into their networks.
Source: Scalawag
5/1/2023
by Micah Herskind
A massive training facility for police to practice urban warfare reveals the decades-long abandonment of poorer Atlantans and the efforts of local business elites to use redevelopment and policing to cater to the wealthy and control the poor, as historians Dan Immergluck and Maurice Hobson help to explain.
Source: Sojourners
5/1/2023
by Matt Bernico
The events surrounding the 1886 Haymarket Affair, when a Chicago general strike for the 8 hour day became violent, revealed tensions present in Christianity today: what happens when Christians side with the bosses?
