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: New York Review of Books
11/15/2021
by David Motadel
"Most of the perpetrators of the Holocaust have passed away, but German courts still have an opportunity to prosecute those who remain alive. It is the final chapter in the country’s long and not very successful history of ensuring justice for their victims."
Source: Wall Street Journal
11/12/2021
As the younger brother of the Austrian emperor, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian was a perfect figurehead for Napoleon III of France's efforts to create a puppet regime in Mexico. Things didn't go the way he hoped.
Source: Smithsonian
11/12/2021
The discovery at Chan Chan is another important archaeological find in the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Source: LitHub
11/11/2021
by Kyle T. Mays
A historian argues for rethinking the cultural practices of enslaved Africans and their encounters with Native Americans by considering that both were, in a sense, "indigenous" resistance to the European settler-colonialist agenda.
Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting
11/12/2021
"It's never entirely clear how he defines masculinity, even though he's quite certain that masculinity is under attack, and the left is trying to do away with real men."
Source: Vice
11/11/2021
"Because of centuries of general anti-gay sentiment and laws punishing queerness, little queer history has been preserved, and much of it has been erased."
Source: The New Republic
11/15/2021
by James Chappel
"A politics that relies on young people to revitalize democracy and address inequality is likely to prove a disappointment."
Source: The Nation
11/15/2021
by Nikhil Pal Singh
George Packer's commitment to liberalism prevents him from evaluating why it seems imperiled today.
Source: The Guardian
11/15/2021
Colin Morris identified the beginnings of the concept of individualism two centuries earlier than had previously been believed, part of a career of groundbreaking scholarship on the Middle Ages.
Source: Washington Post
11/11/2021
by Marc Thiessen
Post columnist Marc Thiessen presents excerpts from his interview with historian Allen Guelzo, who offers a new explanation for where critical race theory originated.
Source: Wall Street Journal
11/10/2021
by Crawford Gribben
Black's synthesis of a long career of writing the history of war offers a bleak assessment of the likelihood of world peace, situating war in the context of humanity's perpetual state of crisis and adaptation.
Source: Willamette Week
11/10/2021
Douglas Wolk argues in "All the Marvels" that the more than 27,000 comics he read are the "longest, continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created," but doesn't necessarily advise any comics fans to try to repeat his research process.
Source: Washington Post
11/8/2021
The International Congress of Working Women met in Washington in 1919 and developed the blueprint for a paid parental leave after another international workers' organization punted on the idea. The proposal has undergirded paid leave programs throughout the industrialized world – except the United States.
Source: The Atlantic
11/9/2021
by Mark Greif
Historian Robert A. Gross's new "The Transcendentalists and Their World" sets the famous experiments in living of Emerson and Thoreau in the social context of the town of Concord, through which the writers understood the shocks of modernization.
Source: Black Perspectives
11/9/2021
"Instead of viewing Black women as at the margins of the American Revolution and abolitionism, it is important to see them as visible participants and self-determined figures who put their lives on the line for freedom."
Source: KUT
11/9/2021
Todd Moye and Max Krochmal's history of multiracial Texas activism grew out of oral history projects with their students; they realized how much of the grassroots history of civil rights struggle in the state could be lost if it weren't recorded.
Source: The Guardian
11/01/2021
The records have the potential to fill gaps in understanding and even dispel popular myths and misunderstandings about the participation of South Asian troops in the British military in World War 1.
Source: Washingtonian
11/10/2021
by Luke Mullins
Zachary Schrag, author of the definitive book on the DC Metro system, says that the legend of affluent community opposition in the 1960s is a just-so story that ignores the realities transit planners faced, but does jibe with city residents' sense of issues of race, power, and influence.
Source: Washington Post
11/10/2021
Pete Buttigieg's remarks racism in urban planning were informed by Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses. Some historians say that while Moses's projects harmed minority communities and his prejudices well-known, the specific anedcote about using parkway bridges to keep buses full of Black New Yorkers from Long Island beaches may be apocryphal.
Source: Dissent
11/10/2021
Davarian L. Baldwin's work interrogates how universities in postindustrial cities exemplify new models of economic development and are implicated in the problems of labor exploitation, gentrification and inequality.
