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: YouTube
1/19/2022
The Michigan professor defends a controversial course intro video that resulted in his suspension, saying his purpose was to provoke thought and make students aware of the risks and dangers of in-person instruction.
Source: EdWeek
1/18/2022
The organized campaign to demonize and ban "Critical Race Theory" has resulted in legislation that is disrupting the crafting and implementation of curriculum standards in multiple states, a review of state education standards and public comments on them reveals.
Source: Washington Post
1/19/2022
“If you haven’t read, in entirety, his speeches, you’ve been miseducated and I hope that you will,” Hannah-Jones said on Twitter.
1/20/2022
Historians had thoughts on their subfields – click in the embedded Tweet to read the replies.
Source: Washington Post
1/17/2022
Despite its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, efforts to publicly document the history of Rio's Valongo Wharf have run into opposition from the country's right-wing government and those who wish to diminish the significance of slavery in Brazil's history.
Source: WBUR
1/17/2022
McKay Jenkins of the University of Delaware's new book tells the story of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, how they fought on the slopes of Italy, and helped develop the modern sport of skiing.
Source: WBUR
1/17/2022
The late leader's opposition to militarism, economic injustice, and white supremacy, which sustained a broad critique of capitalist society, have been sanitized and reduced to platitudes by people who would prefer not to recognize the equality of all people, the historian told the annual MLK Memorial Breakfast.
Source: Washington Post
1/17/2022
Charles W. Mitchell and Jean H. Baker's book assembles essays from historians who undermine myths of Maryland history shaped by Confederate sympathizers.
Source: AL.com
1/16/2022
In 1874 a group of Black Republicans who came to the town of Eufaula to vote were ambushed by white mobs, part of the Democratic overthrow of Reconstruction and a step toward reestablishing white supremacy in the state.
Source: Slate
1/17/2022
by Richard Kreitner
Journalist Stephen Marche presents scenarios under which the historical tensions among groups of Americans could openly rupture, but reviewer Richard Kreitner thinks some are unlikely, and don't grapple with the way that American institutions are implicated in the crisis of democracy.
Source: African American Policy Forum
1/13/2022
by Sam Adler-Bell
The anti-CRT movement "is not merely a battle against a theory of racism or American history, but a battle against the idea that we might join forces to make American society more fair, more equal, and more kind."
Source: University of Mississippi
1/18/2022
Historian Garrett Felber and his students began a project to document the experiences of Mississippi students arrested in 1970 and sent to the notorious prison farm.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
1/14/2022
Historian of Science Barry Mehler was suspended by Ferris State (Mich.) University after releasing a welcome video for his spring course that took what could be described as a bold and provocative approach to protesting the college's mandatory in-person teaching.
Source: The Atlantic
1/13/2022
Danielle Freedman's new book identifies the paradox of exercise for women: the subversive potential of training, strengthening and developing the capability of the body is yoked to an exploitative diet and beauty culture.
Source: The Nation
1/11/2022
by Kim Kelly
After starting at Armour's Chicago cannery at age 17, Addie Wyatt rose through the ranks of her local union to lead workers across five states, recognizing the connection between workers' power and racial and gender equality and linking midwestern unions to the southern civil rights struggle.
Source: National Library of Medicine
1/11/2022
NLM History Talks promote awareness and use of NLM and related historical collections for research, education, and public service in biomedicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Source: Zinn Education Project/Teach Reconstruction
1/12/2022
by Ana Rosado, Gideon Cohn-Postar and Mimi Eisen
A common thread connecting public ignorance of American history and the politicization of history curricula is the systemic erasure of the history of Reconstruction. This report considers how states currently mandate the teaching of the era and what they could do better.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer
1/9/2022
North Carolina's gerrymandered legislative and Congressional district maps were drawn without consideration to race, say state Republicans. But it's difficult to miss the parallel between the 1890s and today: a conservative bloc of white voters subverting the will of Black and progressive coalition, say James Leloudis and Robert Korstad.
Source: The Nation
1/11/2022
by Kim Phillips-Fein
Kim Phillips-Fein reviews John Huntington's "Far-Right Vanguard," calling his history of the far right a needed reminder of the porousness of boundaries between the right-wing fringe and mainstream conservatism in the 20th century.
Source: Yes!
1/11/2022
"Right-wing narratives have cast the backlash against CRT as a grassroots effort led by parents concerned about bias in their children’s education. But secretive and powerful moneyed interests are at work behind the scenes."
