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: KUT
10/28/2021
Dr. Andrea Roberts of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project says that the history of Black settlements during Reconstruction and Jim Crow is hindered by rules about what sites qualify as "historic."
Source: New York Review of Books
11/1/2021
by Nicholas Guyatt
New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on a single firm, Franklin & Armfield, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.
Source: The Nation
10/29/2021
Writer Marian Jones gathers together the recollections of the participants in the 1977 efforts to define the relationship between struggles against sexism, racism and capitalist exploitation and reminds that the group's coinage of the term "identity politics" was meant to bring multiple groups together.
Source: Slate
10/30/2021
by Willam Hogeland
Inside the recent Massachusetts Historical Society dustup between Gordon Wood and Woody Holton over the significance of slavery to the American Revolution, and what it means for the public perception of history.
Source: New York Times
11/2/2021
by Sean Wilentz
Noah Feldman's new books says that, in 1861, Jefferson Davis was right about the Constitution's sanction of slavery, and only the rupture of the Civil War could amend and reset the document. Sean Wilentz disagrees.
Source: Know Your Enemy Podcast
10/25/2021
Historian Lauren Stokes helps to explain the American right's embrace of Viktor Orban and the right-wing regime in Hungary.
Source: Not Even Past
10/19/2021
by H.W. Brands and Mark Atwood Lawrence
Two University of Texas colleagues pay tribute to the scholarly, teaching, and personal contributions of the late Robert Divine to the field of diplimatic history.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/19/2021
Dr. Leonard Moore of the University of Texas, author of the new "Teaching Black History to White People," discusses the challenges of teaching about racism in America, both from conservatives who often demand "colorblindness" and elements of the "woke left" who often demand intellectual safety.
Source: Nature
10/18/2021
Medical Historian Keith Wailoo's new book argues that tobacco companies have systematically targeted Black communities with advertisements for menthol cigarettes and enlisted Black civil rights leaders to oppose regulations on flavored tobacco sales.
Source: The Atlantic
10/18/2021
by William Deresiewicz
A new effort at a synthesis of the sweep of human history upends what recent popularizers have presented as a progressive path from hunter-gatherer society to corporate capitalism by emphasizing choice, contingency, and the possibility of doing things differently.
Source: The Atlantic
10/15/2021
Ronald Brownstein, with help from Julian Zelizer, explains that even big wins for presidential priorities seldom save the party in power from a big beating in the midterms, a "second year curse" of modern presidencies.
Source: Perspectives on History
10/19/2021
What started with doctoral candidate Jason Herbert's desire to goof on "National Treasure" turned into a weekly event bringing historians, students, and even celebrities together on Twitter.
Source: New York Times
10/19/2021
"So the big difference between the generation that I’m a part of and the generation that came before is that where they saw consensus internally, we see conflict internally. And by the way, I think that’s a lot more exciting."
Source: National Archives Museum
10/18/2021
H.W. Brands will discuss the tensions between Loyalists and Revolutionaries in the colonies and the way those tensions shaped the course of revolution.
Source: Perspectives on History
10/18/2021
HNN congratulates the winners of the AHA's awards for publication, teaching, and service to the profession.
Source: Wall Street Journal
10/17/2021
The singer's gift of his artifact collection has reignited controversy about how the events of 1836 should be commemorated in the state's complex history.
Source: New York Review of Books
10/19/2021
"Ben-Gurion was not a saint and should not be made into one posthumously. An unvarnished account of his vices is essential, but so is an appreciation of his merits." A reviewer says Tom Segev's new biography sheds little light on his influence over the Zionist movement and the Israeli state.
Source: KSAT
10/13/2021
Cynthia Orozco, Ph.D, professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, will discuss how Order Sons of America led to the creation of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization.
Source: The Atlantic
10/15/2021
More than half of the books banned from or challenged in school libraries and classrooms deal with issues of diversity including race, gender and disability.
Source: Wall Street Journal
10/12/2021
"In Britain, historians love to fight over battle sites, but few elicit such stridence and obsession as Brunanburh. There are more than 30 proposed locations for the battle, which took place in 937, and helped shape what would become England."
