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
1/26/2022
Christian nationalism, particularly the sense that America's white, Christian identity is threatened, is a force uniting disparate strains of the far right and a potential bridge between extremists and millions of American Evangelicals, say scholars Kelly J. Baker and Anthea Butler.
Source: The Atlantic
1/27/2022
Historian Roger Ekrich describes the medieval biphasic sleep cycle – falling asleep at nightfall, waking at midnight, and sleeping again till dawn – but says it was a response to living conditions, not a natural pattern or preferable to modern sleep habits.
Source: BBC
1/26/2022
Witches were often blamed for the sudden death of children or for poor harvests, according to Pau Castell, a professor of modern history at the University of Barcelona.
Source: CSPAN
1/27/2022
A town hall meeting in Los Angeles grew heated when the CIA director denied allegations published by reporter Gary Webb that the Agency was involved in importing and distributing drugs to South Central Los Angeles.
Source: Washington Post
1/24/2022
As nuclear readiness is increased in response to North Korean tests and the territorial goals of China and Russia, it's time to revisit times when an accidental nuclear war came close to happening.
Source: Military Times
1/25/2022
The "Dear John" letter represents a convergence of the social history of the military and the culture of family, love and relationships. Historian Susan L. Carruthers explains how the term was coined and what she learned about romantic breakups in military history.
Source: Washington Post
1/24/2022
“We shouldn't shy away from this more complicated, more accurate picture,” historian Kevin Kruse told me. “Democracy is an ongoing project, and we should all be wrestling with whether our actions live up to our ideals.”
Source: The Metropole
1/24/2022
by Claire Dunning
Benjamin Holtzman's new book asks readers to reconsider the role of local community organizations and their liberal allies in creating the turn to market processes and entrepreneurial social programs associated with neoliberal urban policy.
Source: PEN America
1/24/2022
The sloppiness of many of the new gag order laws, including factual errors, contradictory language and vague definitions, will create more than confusion; it will create fear.
Source: The New Yorker
1/10/2022
Jing Tsu's book examines the ways that the Chinese written language has survived waves of iconoclasm and shifts in the politics of cultural authority.
Source: NBC News
1/24/2022
“The victims of this censorship are history and the truth,” J. Michael Butler said. “The end game is they’re going to make teaching civil rights into ‘critical race theory,’ and it’s not.”
Source: Inside Higher Ed
1/25/2022
by John Warner
A recent viral Twitter thread sparked a reflection on how to cultivate critical thinking and how to encourage students to transfer it from one context as a durable and portable skill.
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
1/25/2022
“We should all be protective of the rights granted by the Constitution — and stand up to defend them when they’re violated.” – Dr. Lora Burnett
Source: New Hampshire Public Radio
1/24/2022
Rep. Eric Gallagher, the bill's sponsor, argued that instead of focusing on the workforce development needs of employers the state's curriculum should inform students about "what sort of skills they might need to stand up to their boss."
Source: The Atlantic
1/25/2022
Past debates about closing schools and businesses to control the pandemic at least could claim to be about balancing costs and benefits. The campaign to refuse vaccination will kill people for no purpose whatsoever.
Source: Jacobin
1/25/2022
Entering office in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt was confident that mass social movements would build support for systemic political and economic change. Joe Biden does not seem to be drawing similar lessons from social protest today.
Source: The Nation
1/25/2022
Residents of New Mexico's Tularosa basin received no advance warning of the 1945 atomic bomb tests nor of the risks to their health. They've been excluded from relief legislation that has benefitted residents near the Nevada test sites and workers in uranium mines.
Source: Washington Post
1/23/2022
by E.J. Dionne
Democratic politicians and their allies must commit to fighting for voting rights and stronger safeguards to the electoral process despite the crushing defeat in the effort to reform the filibuster.
Source: Sh!tpost Podcast
1/20/2022
Wikipedian Ksenia Coffman, who has established herself as an expert at rooting out propaganda, Nazi apologetics and misinformation from the internet's encyclopedia, joins far-right watchdog Jared Holt to discuss her work and the tensions between accuracy and accessibility in online history.
Source: World Socialist Website
1/20/2022
The Stanford historian emeritus gives a wide-ranging interview about his career, the American revolution, writing history, and his disagreements with the 1619 Project.
