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: Washington Post
6/18/2021
Jonathan Capehart will host a discussion with Annette Gordon-Reed of her new book "On Juneteenth" on Friday at 12:00 eastern.
Source: New York Times
6/15/2021
Louis Menand joins Ezra Klein's podcast to discuss his new book and the intellectual history of the cold war era.
Source: Washington Post
6/14/2021
Latin America has been fundamentally transformed by Richard Nixon's launch of the War on Drugs in 1971. The Post presents a series of articles by Latin American journalists describing the consequences.
Source: HuffPost
6/17/2021
Labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Joe McCartin say that Amazon's corporate turn against retaining employees reverses longstanding business strategies because it makes organizing unions extremely difficult.
Source: The Atlantic
6/17/2021
Historian Derek Musgrove's research on DC statehood shows that prominent Republicans, including conservative Barry Goldwater and segregationist Strom Thurmond, have strongly supported the cause in the past.
Source: Philadelphia Tribune
6/14/2021
Ashley Farmer and Ana Lucia Araujo argue that the historical debate about reparations for slavery and official anti-Black racism often ignores the leadership of Black women in arguing for reparations and proposing specific forms of restitution.
Source: The New Republic
6/15/2021
by Max Holleran
"With its reminder that creative labor was once seen—like a strategic reserve of fuel, weapons, or medical supplies—as worthy of federal protection, Republic of Detours mobilizes New Deal history to help us imagine what our society would be like if federal tax dollars supported a reserve army of muralists, poets, and oral historians."
Source: College Theology Society
6/14/2021
by Stephanie Coontz
Family historian Stephanie Coontz argues in a chapter excerpted here that relationships of care and mutual obligation have been much more complex than the nuclear family.
Source: New York Times
6/15/2021
The Dutch macrohistorian says that utopian thinking – that doesn't accept the present as necessary or permanent – is very different from fatalism because it ideally spurs action.
Source: Smithsonian
6/14/2021
The dig is part of the UNF Archaeology Lab’s ongoing Mocama Archaeological Project, which seeks to shed light on the Indigenous people who lived along northern Florida’s coast prior to Europeans’ arrival in the region in 1562.
Source: The Metropole
6/14/2021
by Menika Dirkson
The late historian Eric Schneider uses criminal court records to argue that Philadelphia's violent crime rate is an ecological phenomenon, in which public policy decisions and private actions created conditions for spikes in violence.
Source: Save the Post Office
6/11/2021
USPS historian Philip Rubio argues that the postal service must return to its mission of service and reject the "run it like a business" logic that has eroded public trust in the institution.
Source: Vox
6/11/2021
Vox's Sean Illing interviews historian Jarvis R. Givens, an expert on African American education, about the idea that, while Black teachers have been practicing antiracist education for generations, the idea becomes controversial when implemented in classrooms where White students learn.
Source: HuffPost
6/11/2021
The White House has named nominees for the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, which will reexamine unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era.
Source: NC Policy Watch
6/14/2021
Malinda Maynor Lowery is leaving her position at the University of North Carolina because of the politicization of the university's governance by conservative activists, most recently reflected in the refusal to hire Nikole Hannah Jones with tenure.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6/9/2021
More than a dozen states considered or passed legislation targeting critical race theory this year. How has this academic concept become so politicized?
Source: Wolfson History Prize
6/10/2021
Sudhir Hazareesingh has won the Wolfson Prize for 2021 for "Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture."
Source: The New Yorker
6/8/2021
A social media discussion among constitutional law professors has proposed minimizing the discussion of the racist language of the notorious Dred Scott decision. Does this do violence to historical understanding of the longstanding accommodation of the constitution to racism?
Source: Buzzfeed
6/7/2021
by Clint Smith
The popularity of celebrating weddings at the sites of enslavement and forced labor illustrates the huge gaps in White America's understanding of history.
Source: The Metropole
6/9/2021
by Erika M. Kitzmiller
A new book looks at the long history of education reform in Boston and concludes that, as in the 19th century, expecting education to fix the problems of an unequal society is wishful thinking.
