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: San Diego Union-Tribune
9/19/2021
San Diego City College professor Susan Hasegawa describes a public history project detailing the story of San Diego's Japanese Americans before and after internment, and a librarian who supported interned children with books and messages of support.
Source: CNN
9/19/2021
The painting, "Holy Family with the Infant St. John," is the third of a four-part series by Cesare Dandini and represents a continuation of Renaissance techniques in the Baroque period.
Source: The Baffler
9/22/2021
by Chaohua Wang
A new book by the Chinese scholar Yang Jisheng examines the Chinese Cultural Revolution's lasting impact on the Communist Party, concluding that the generation of party leaders who experienced it were indifferent to utopianism but deeply attracted to the exercise of absolute power.
Source: ABC News
9/20/2021
Historian Christopher McKnight Nichols notes "we have effective vaccines now.... the thing they most wanted in 1918, we've got. And for a lot of different reasons, we botched the response."
Source: The Atlantic
9/14/2021
"The imbalance reveals a genuine shift in how men participate in education, the economy, and society. The world has changed dramatically, but the ideology of masculinity isn’t changing fast enough to keep up."
Source: New York Times
9/20/2021
As Americans consider the racist views of John Muir and the legacy of exclusion from national parks spaces, the Times highlights the work of African American workers in the national parks service and the Black history they help preserve "for the benefit and enjoyment of people."
Source: Governing
9/21/2021
New economic research reinforces an argument made by historian Amy Hillier, that federal agencies didn't invent "redlining" but responded to widespread public prejudices that imagined Black residents as threats to neighborhood property value.
Source: The Atlantic
9/16/2021
Tamara Lanier has continued to fight Harvard over the ownership of photos of her enslaved ancestors, which were commissioned by the influential race scientist Louis Agassiz.
Source: WNYC
9/20/2021
The Takeaway speaks with historian Mae Ngai about how notions of U.S. citizenship have changed over time.
Source: Organization of American Historians
9/20/2021
by Organization of American Historians
“The OAH is committed to the principle that the past is a key to understanding the present, and has an interest—as a steward of history, not as an advocate of a particular legal standard—to ensure that the Court is presented with an accurate portrayal of American history and traditions,”
Source: Inside Higher Ed
9/21/2021
The Society for Military History has planned its annual conference for Texas next spring. The state's radical new abortion law has prompted some members to call for moving the event, and sparked debate over what constitutes political neutrality for the organization.
Source: Balkinization
9/20/2021
by John Fabian Witt
John Fabian Witt writes about a critical exchange over Samuel Moyn's book on humanitarian war, and questions Moyn's conception of the relationship between a scholar's politics and their methodology.
Source: The Nation
9/20/2021
by Daniel Immerwahr
The late radical anthropologist David Graeber, with his posthumous collaborator David Wengrow, looks to the long sweep of history to assess the prospect of human self-governance without a powerful state.
Source: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
9/17/2021
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that Democrats and Republicans intentionally wanted to create a student loan industry instead of generously funding colleges and universities, which eventually left millions of Americans drowning in student debt. Zoom, Monday, Oct. 4, 4:00 PM EDT.
Source: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
9/17/2021
Eric Zolov addresses the Washington History Seminar to talk about his revisionist interpretation of Mexican history in the 1960s, when the government tried "to broaden Mexico's international relations and break free of economic subordination to Washington." Zoom, Monday, Sept. 27, 4:00 PM EDT.
Source: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
9/17/2021
Nancy Sherman addresses the Washington History Seminar to discuss the maladaptation of Stoicism to the modern self-help industry and a fuller understanding of the lessons of the school. Zoom, September 23, 4:00 EDT.
Source: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
9/17/2021
Mia Bay's new book "places the right to unrestricted mobility at the center of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle." She addresses the Washington History Seminar on Monday, September 20 at 4:00 EDT.
Source: Daily Beast
9/12/2021
Archaeologists who debunked a popular television series interpreting Plato's references to Atlantis as fact instead of allegory soon discovered the affinity many eugenicists, neonazis and white supremacists have for the myth.
Source: History.com
9/14/2021
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riots, a series of mob attacks on Black residents and their homes and businesses, originated in fears of black political and economic power that were stoked by the local press with fabricated, sensational stories of Black criminality.
Source: New York Times
9/9/2021
The archives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which held important information about the history of the region's politics and infrastructure, was housed in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Agency retirees have sent documents, pictures and artifacts to start rebuilidng the record.
