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: NPR
11/29/2021
As holiday shopping overlaps with historic supply chain disruptions, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Lizabeth Cohen on the economy's reliance on spending and the culture of consumerism in the U.S.
Source: Times Higher Education
11/25/2021
“These new history wars have the warped logic of a witch trial; their aim is to convince people that they are being oppressed by the irrefutable facts of their own national histories, such as slavery in America, or the British Empire,” University of Manchester historian David Olusoga said.
Source: NPR
11/29/2021
Historian Erik Loomis discusses whether the wave of labor activism will start to reverse a half-century of successful union busting by big business.
Source: The New Republic
11/23/2021
Edward Miller's new book presents the case that the John Birch Society was not a retrograde reactionary force but the vanguard of modern conservative culture war politics.
Source: Brazilian Historians in the United States (BRAHUS)
11/29/2021
Historians charge that the appointment is part of Bolsonaro's campaign to whitewash the image of Brazil's period of military dictatorship and justify his own authoritarian ambitions.
Source: The Atlantic
11/28/2021
"Right now, American influence is MIA and real Jews are suffering while Republicans play politics with this position."
Source: The Guardian
11/28/2021
"I suppose that’s what we’re going to see now; the person who does that kind of bullying and that kind of threatening gets a good degree of support for it."
Source: The New Yorker
11/29/2021
Does Martin Indyk's new book on Henry Kissinger, who is a personal friend, have enough critical distance between subject and author, asks interviewer Isaac Chotiner.
Source: The Nation
11/27/2021
by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Katrina Forrester's book shows the influence of John Rawls on the study of ethics, but also reveals the limits of abstract theory for understanding historical injustice.
Source: NPR
11/15/2021
A new book discusses a women's pro football league in the 1960s, and the role of homophobia and sexism in undermining it.
Source: Deadline
11/11/2021
Historians Ed Hashima and Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders will be among the competitors in the $100,000 event beginning December 6.
Source: The Guardian
11/13/2021
“America first” and “enemies of the people” are words that are consciously applied by people who wish to destroy democracy. If people don’t know how those words have been applied in the past, then that is dangerous.
Source: The Nation
11/13/2021
by Erin Pineda
"Protesters may be a loud minority of citizens, a set of especially motivated and impassioned individuals who are in many ways not representative of the general public. But the silent majority of voters are not as disconnected from—or dismissive of—protest as many assume."
Source: NPR
11/17/2021
"I'd be surprised to find any city that did not have restrictive covenants," said LaDale Winling, a historian and expert on housing discrimination who teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
Source: The Guardian
11/17/2021
Helen Roche has published the first comprehensive history of the Napolas, the schools Nazis established to train future leaders of the Reich, and notes deep patterns of exchange between teachers and students at British and German schools before the start of war.
Source: New York Times
The historian discusses the normalization of far-right ideology on Ezra Klein's podcast, featuring guest host Nicole Hemmer.
Source: WNYC
11/17/2021
With the release of the expanded book version of her 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones is back in the spotlight, for admirers and critics alike.
Source: Texas Standard
11/15/2021
"My number one biggest issue with white liberals: they assume that they know what’s best for Black people, and that’s why I titled that chapter specifically for them."
Source: New York Times
11/17/2021
The judges described Miles's "All that She Carried" as “a brilliant, original work,” examining a compilation of lives “that ordinary archives suppress.”
Source: New York Times
11/12/2021
by Jamelle Bouie
Article IV requires the federal government to guarantee a republican form of government in every state; James Madison's writings in the Federalist and John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy should be touchstones for reviving the influence of the clause.
