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: Organization of American Historians
1/7/2022
George Sanchez moderates a discussion featuring Anthea Hartig, Clarence Lange, Erika Lee and Nancy MacLean on the state of democracy on the anniversary of the capitol riot and attempted coup.
Source: Aspen Institute and Craig Newmark Philanthropies
1/12/2022
"One year after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, 92Y’s second annual State of Democracy Summit—co-presented with Aspen Digital—will explore the most important questions facing the country right now."
Source: The Atlantic
1/4/2022
"The anxieties of capitalism are not confined to the workplace. They have a long history of leaking into our free time," explains leisure historian Steven M. Gelber.
Source: CSPAN
1/6/2022
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden moderates a discussion between historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, to "establish and preserve the narrative of Jan. 6."
Source: WBUR
1/11/2021
How will Biden deliver a planned speech on voting rights under the shadow of the filibuster? Will it sway reluctant Democrats like Manchin and Sinema?
Source: The Nation
1/10/2022
"For the Free Southern Theater’s members, bringing the stage to the countryside made political education accessible while enabling artists to participate in politics."
Source: Public Books
1/6/2022
by Diedre Lynch
Books by Dennis Duncan and Craig Robertson examine the history of indexing, filing, and other technologies for locating information in books and the resultant culture of research.
Source: Jacobin
1/11/2022
"What was the history that brought the French left to its current state of crisis, and does it show what other countries are going to experience in the future?"
Source: MSNBC
1/9/2022
“Democracy needs history, because history teaches you about your mistakes.”
Source: CBS News
1/10/2022
The contributors to a new book of essays by historians on the Trump years took part in a virtual call with the former president, who pleaded his case for posterity.
Source: The Guardian
1/6/2022
“We have to retell the story of what happened on January 6, with all of the gaps filled in,” Goodwin said. “And I do believe that a line will be drawn.”
Source: The New Republic
1/11/2022
by Patrick Iber
After leading Marines to secure the American empire in the wake of the Spanish-American War, Major Smedley Butler by 1935 repented and called himself "a racketeer for capitalism."
Source: Clio and the Contemporary
1/7/2022
by William Horne
A syllabus for a course addressing the relationship of extralegal violence and institutional defenses of white supremacy in American history.
Source: National Interest
1/2/2022
by Jacob Heilbrunn
Christopher Owens's biography places Willmoore Kendall in the first rank of postwar conservative intellectuals and identifies him with the fusion of populism and traditionalism associated with the Trumpist right and the burgeoning "national conservative" movements.
Source: BoingBoing
1/7/2022
The worst-case scenario for 2024 is pretty bad, according to the Yale historian of European fascism.
Source: New York Times
12/27/2021
Spence taught for four decades at Yale, and published a number of popular and critically acclaimed books on the vast history of modern China.
Source: The Editorial Board
1/5/2022
"The Bright Ages" co-author Matthew Gabriele discusses the proliferation of medieval imagery in far-right circles and why it gets the history wrong.
Source: Salon
1/6/2022
by Kathryn Joyce
Religion scholars Anthea Butler and Peter Manseau offer insight into the convergence of nationalism and religious fervor that contributed to the widespread sense on the right that violence was necessary to thwart the great evil of Biden's election.
Source: YouTube
1/5/2022
Historian Kathleen Belew joins Hari Sreenivasan and Bill Moyers to discuss a new documentary, "Preserving Democracy."
Source: The Economist
1/1/2022
"Russia’s supreme court 'liquidated' Memorial, the country’s most vital post-Soviet civic institution, dedicated to the memory of Stalinist repression and the defence of human rights."
