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
8/2/2021
by Annette Gordon-Reed
New books examine the innovations in data-driven research that WEB DuBois developed as intellectual weapons in his battle against the rising tide of global white supremacy in the early 20th century.
Source: New York Times
7/30/2021
Bipartisan support for 1960s civil rights legislation was an artifact of a fleeting moment of ideological diversity within the two parties. When it comes to voting and civil rights laws, partisan polarization has been the historical norm, and it's nothing to fear now when ballot access is at risk across the nation.
Source: The New Republic
7/29/2021
In the 1890s the National Education Association worked to standardize the national secondary curriculum, deciding what subjects were worthy of study, and in the process developing a white supremacist curriculum in history.
Source: Los Angeles Times
The family story of historian Mireya Loza and her father Pedro illustrates an irony of militarized border enforcement: Labor migrants who once contemplated returning to Mexico or Central America were forced to stay in the US and raise American families.
Source: New York Times
7/28/2021
by Charles M. Blow
"Republicans are on a political crusade to protect lore and lies. They know that many Americans, many of them their voters, will take a lie over guilt and atonement, every day of the week."
Source: Roanoke (VA) Times
7/29/2021
The late Ted Delaney worked as a custodian at the Virginia university before earning a bachelor's degree and returning as a professor and ultimately history department chair. He was a longtime advocate for the university to address its links to the Confederacy and Lost Cause mythology.
Source: WBUR
7/27/2021
Elliott Young, a history professor and police reform advocate, is among the Portand residents interviewed about the state of the city a year after destructive protests over police violence drew the far left, far right, and federal law enforcement to the city.
Source: The New Yorker
7/25/2021
“Women think all of this is the Bible because they learn it in their churches,” Barr told me. “But it’s really a post-Second World War construction of domesticity, which was designed to send working women back to the kitchen.”
Source: Cross Cultural Solidarity History Project
7/25/2021
A historical project aims to highlight not the attitudes or words but the deeds of White Americans who have made meaningful contributions to the cause of racial equality.
Source: Foreign Policy Research Institute
7/27/2021
Michael J. Bustamante and Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall are featured in a discussion of American intervention in the Caribbean and its relationship to current turmoil in Haiti and Cuba. July 29, 2:00 PM.
Source: WNYC
7/26/2021
Postal historian Philip Rubio joins The Takeaway to discuss new service standards that many fear will undermine the public standing of the Postal Service without meaningfully improving the agency's financial standing.
Source: New York Times
7/25/2021
“We won’t be able to truly absorb the lessons of history, and history may just repeat itself,” Mr. Yu said in an interview from Hong Kong. “It couldn’t possibly be exactly like the Cultural Revolution, but something similar can’t be ruled out.”
Source: Smithsonian
7/26/2021
From classical civilization to Olga Korbut to Tokyo 2020, here’s what you need to know about gymnastics’ evolution over the past two millennia.
Source: Public Books
7/26/2021
"Of course this society was male-dominated; it was a patriarchal society, like all other historical societies. But it was possible to talk explicitly about sex, sexual pleasure, sexual desire, for both men and women."
Source: Radio Open Source
7/15/2021
African American Studies scholar Daphne Brooks tells the back stories of Black women in music and the cultural impact of their songs.
Source: Mother Jones
7/22/2021
In 1829, South Carolina and Georgia responded to a series of fires they assumed were set by enslaved people by banning both the abolitionist literature they blamed for inciting rebellion and the teaching of literacy to slaves. Today's battles over curriculum are likewise about ideas deemed threatening to social hierarchies.
Source: New York Times
7/20/2021
Historians Daniel Immerwahr and Stephen Wertheim are among the experts quoted on the rise of the idea of American interventionism and its reconsideration after twenty years of the War on Terror.
Source: New York Times
7/18/2021
The South Korean government's efforts to police discussion of historical events, aimed at suppressing right-wing theories about the country's democratization movement, are an exceptional example of the tension between allowing free debate and the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories.
Source: LitHub
7/12/2021
Mark Hamill: "George said, 'Look, it’s just a way to keep the merchandising fresh in people’s minds and it’s really a favor to me for those merchandisers.' So I said, 'Oh, all right, but I’m not singing'.”
Source: TIME
7/13/2021
by Olivia B. Waxman
Historian Raúl A. Ramos discusses the way that the myth of the Alamo has supplanted the real history, and how new state laws stand in the way of the teaching that a multiethnic Texas needs.
