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 Times
9/9/2021
Historians Michael Willrich and Elena Conis explains the history of vaccination resistance and the civil liberties and political conflicts that have accompanied it.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
9/9/2021
by Brentin Mock
“Candyman isn't the only ghost in this show,” says Stanford Carpenter, a cultural anthropologist based in Chicago. “The other ghost is Cabrini-Green. In both cases, the thing that makes them scary is that they were made that way by white systemic racism.”
Source: New York Times
98/15/2021
Thomas Edsall draws on the work of historians Katherine Stewart, Randall Balmer, Jefferson Cowie and Darren Dochuk, plus other scholars, to argue that the "right to life" movement grew from the movement of resistance to school integration and today is sustained by politics of masculinity.
Source: The Revealer
9/9/2021
"Recognizing jihad as a diverse and historically evolving practice makes it possible to cast aside the biggest misconception in the West, namely that it is an instantiation of medieval barbarism left over from less enlightened times."
Source: American Historical Association
9/15/2021
by James Grossman and Beth English
"Ongoing partisan agitation around this issue will continue, provoked and sustained by a shrewdly organized and amply funded crusade that seeks to replace evidence-based history instruction with a whitewashed version of patriotism."
Source: New York Times
9/10/2021
Legal historian and reproductive rights scholar Mary Ziegler: “It almost seemed like anyone could sue anyone — and that didn’t seem right. But it was. It really is that extraordinary.”
Source: Gothamist
9/9/2021
Tyrone Larkins, Alhajji Sharif and Akil Shaquan were incarcerated at Attica 50 years ago. Hear their story about conditions in the prison and the events of the riot and its brutal suppression. Also features an interview with historian Heather Ann Thompson.
Source: Texas Monthly
9/14/2021
A significant portion of Tejanos consider themselves white and many vote like Anglo Texans; their history shows the contingency of racial categories and the risk for Democrats of assuming demographics will substitute for political appeal.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
9/13/2021
"Thinking through how to proceed with annual conferences during and after the pandemic means thinking about why people want to attend them in the first place."
Source: Washington Post
9/13/2021
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute appears to be disavowing its previous connections to historian Benjamin Park. Is it because of his objections to some LDS leaders' positions on LGBTQ issues and masking and vaccination in response to COVID?
Source: The Guardian
9/14/2021
Historians of education and civil rights suggest that Black teachers may be justified in fearing that new content-based restrictions on teaching history may subject them to more disciplinary action than their white colleagues.
Source: Daily Beast
9/13/2021
Bannon's call to parents to withdraw their children from school to protest "Critical Race Theory" echoes the infamous 1974 Kanawha County, West Virginia Textbook Wars.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
9/12/2021
by Randal Maurice Jelks
Jarvis R. Givens's new study of the life of Carter G. Woodson emphasizes Woodson's work to advance Black education in an American social setting that was profoundly hostile to Black achievement and equality.
Source: Bookforum
9/12/2021
The “shifting public understandings of homosexuality in the twentieth century,” the legal historian Anna Lvovsky argues, “cannot be fully understood without a history of policing.”
Source: Atlas Obscura
9/10/2021
“Filipinos in Louisiana are always being ‘discovered,’ says Randy Gonzalez. Someone will write an article, ‘I bet you didn’t know there were Filipinos in Louisiana!’ Ten years later, someone will write the same article. I wish that would stop one day.”
Source: The New Yorker
9/13/2021
Derrick Bell's frustrations with the limits of liberal individualism in civil rights jurisprudence pushed him to develop the important critique of institiutional racism in the law.
Source: WTOP
9/6/2021
"The main split in the way Sept. 11 is taught, says Jeremy Stoddard, is whether to teach it as a memorial, or as an event that continues to have an effect on students’ lives."
Source: The Nation
9/7/2021
by Danielle Carr
Carl Zimmer's work as a science popularizer has been hailed as a key to bringing Americans on board with public health measures in the pandemic. But does his approach to writing about the science of viruses obscure the context of politics in which science unfolds?
Source: The New Republic
9/8/2021
by Daniel Bessner
Samuel Moyn's book "Humane" pushes for policymakers and intellectuals to focus less on the strategy of warfare and more on whether war should be fought, a crucial step to reestablishing peace as the goal of international relations and American foreign policy.
Source: The Baffler
9/7/2021
by Kirsten Weld
Poor Clio, the muse of history, has been tasked with the passing of retrospective judgments that we in the here-and-now are unwilling to make. Unfortunately, that's not how history works.
