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: mesana.org
2/28/2022
The association is concerned that the University of Washington defunded an endowed chair in Israel Studies after donors complained about the faculty member's statements as a private citizen criticizing Israeli policies in Gaza.
Source: Vox
3/1/2022
Historians and diplomats including Stephen Wertheim and Joseph Nye offer insight on the limits of what American power can achieve toward stopping Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Source: The New Republic
3/1/2022
In her new book "Camera Man" Stevens shows how Keaton's career connected to the changes shaking up entertainment and society.
Source: Boston Review
3/1/2022
by David Roediger
A suppressed history of conquest and expulsion pervades the state of Illinois; A new book seeks to recover it.
Source: Globe and Mail
2/24/2022
Olgah Martynyuk of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute spoke to journalists while preparing to leave the country by train to Poland, saying Ukrainians are determined to defend their democracy.
Source: NPR
2/24/2022
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) professor discusses the post-Cold War paths of Ukraine and Russia as the context for this week's invasion, and argues that reviving lapsed treaties on intermediate nuclear forces and troop levels in Europe could support a cease-fire.
Source: Gilder Lehrman Institute
2/23/2022
The Gilder Lehrman Institute announces a planned return to in-person events with its Teacher Symposium, featuring courses led by prominent scholars and other programming.
Source: The Atlantic
2/9/2022
"All the bad things we see around us are like ghosts from the past whose deathly grip on progress might frustrate it for a while, and with potentially terrible consequences, but cannot stop its wheels from eventually grinding on. This is, of course, total nonsense."
Source: NPR
2/22/2022
Smithsonian NMAAHC curator Aaron Bryant talks about photographs that tell untold stories about American history and life.
Source: CBS News
2/23/2022
Chris Miller, an assistant professor of international history at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, joins CBS News' Tanya Rivero and Nikki Battiste to provide some historical context for the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Source: CBS Los Angeles
2/19/2022
Andrew Jenks, a history professor at Cal State University Long Beach joined the studio to discuss the current dilemma that has the entire world on edge - Russia's threat to invade Ukraine.
Source: MSNBC
2/22/2022
Douglas Brinkley joins Morning Joe to discuss presidential leadership in earlier moments of crisis.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2/16/2022
Alain Locke's anthology proposed and modeled a new image of Black life that held room for artistic creation and criticism of art and society.
Source: The Metropole
2/17/2022
The authors' study and advocacy for place-based and democratic redevelopment policies is rooted in their experiences in underground punk music scenes in the 1990s.
Source: New York Review of Books
2/22/2022
by David A. Bell
Colin Jones's book examines the events of one day, but poses big questions about popular will and the legitimacy of the state.
Source: The Lancet
2/19/2022
Historian Jim Downs's "Maladies of Empire" is cited as a source showing that the profession of public health grew out of the concerns of slavery, war and imperialism.
Source: Last Week Tonight
2/22/2022
John Oliver explains what critical race theory is, what it isn’t, and why we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months.
Source: The New Yorker
2/16/2022
In 1968, real life imitated "Batman" as the Catwoman actress broke the veneer of politeness at a luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson to denounce the war against Vietnam. But while Catwoman always got away, Kitt's career was destroyed for a decade.
Source: The New Republic
2/15/2022
by Sam Rosenfield
Kazin's new history of the Democrats examines broad ideas of economic fairness that resonate with the party's faithful, but also the pattern of lurching compromise and triangulation that frustrates its progressive critics.
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer
2/5/2022
Howard University's Nikki M. Taylor explains that the primary sources are often rife with racist perspectives, but can still offer insight into how local Black communities have worked for self-determination.
