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: History.com
7/12/2021
Read an overview of the centrality of the river to Egyptian civilization and the history of efforts to harness the life-sustaining and destructive capacity of the Nile.
Source: The New Yorker
7/14/2021
German author Jenny Erpenbeck's work is an exercise in preserving the objects that place a person's memory in history, particularly her own childhood in East Germany.
Source: NPR
7/12/2021
Hasan Kwame Jeffries: "If you don't teach about race and racism in American history, past and present, I don't know what the hell you're teaching. It's not the truth."
Source: Phenomenal World
7/12/2021
While New York's mayoral campaign has invoked the "bad old days" of the 1970s, the city today is still experiencing the political-economic crisis that erupted 50 years ago.
Source: Salon
7/12/2021
"The notion of multiracial American democracy is very new and very fragile, and people are still fighting about it."
Source: New York Times
7/12/2021
“Anti-urbanism is an American religion, practiced widely and frequently in ordinary times, and passionately when cities are actually in trouble,” wrote Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at N.Y.U.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
7/4/2021
Joshua Cohen's novel fictionalizes the American academic career of Benzion Netanyahu, whose American raised sons became huge figures in Israeli military and political history.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
7/9/2021
In addition to many articles, translations and contributions to books, Mr. Levy edited the two-volume 2005 book “Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution.”
Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
7/8/2021
"Theoharis' research proved or verified many episodes of FBI skullduggery, including multiple instances of Sen. Joseph McCarthy enlisting the FBI to seek sexual or political dirt on government officials and workers, even President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself."
Source: NPR
7/11/2021
Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history.
Source: NPR
7/5/2021
As the Chinese Communist Party turns 100 this month, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with historian Andy B. Liu about the mark it's made on the country.
Source: NPR
7/7/2021
Author Amy Sohn discusses her new book on the life and work of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, who's work resulted in the restriction of contraception for a century.
Source: Black Perspectives
7/5/2021
The African American Intellectual History Society will convene an online book club discussing Jean Casimir's "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" with events beginning in August.
Source: American Historical Association
7/8/2021
"The American Historical Association views with alarm several provisions in Texas House Bill 3979 (An Act Relating to the Social Studies Curriculum in Public Schools), recently signed into law by Governor Abbott."
Source: Los Angeles Times
6/20/2021
"Collectively, the letters painted a vivid portrait of an intimate existence among a tight group of friends in the late 1950s and early ’60s in New York."
Source: Slate
6/25/2021
Rebecca Onion interviews Matt Karp, who argues that, while the right has distanced itself from pro-Confederate mythology, it still seeks to appropriate history to support a culture war.
Source: Newsday
7/7/2021
A historian of past drug epidemics and narcotics regulation is an expert witness for New York State in a case against opioid manufacturers, who relaxed the regulatory standards put up in response to opioid addiction in the 19th century.
Source: The Guardian
7/4/2021
"The document is attributed to the highest level of SCV leadership at that time and buttresses its defense of monuments with a detailed account of the civil war which falsely denies the centrality of slavery in the conflict."
Source: New York Post
7/5/2021
Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley plan to team-teach a course examining the comparative history of mass imprisonment in the two empires.
Source: KCET
7/6/2021
"Today, the Victorian mansions of Bunker Hill are often remembered nostalgically, but the community was also a vibrant, walkable neighborhood in the middle of a bustling downtown."
