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: Ellsberg Archive Project
4/28/2021
A free online conference brings together more than two dozen distinguished historians, journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and former policymakers on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg himself will present the keynote.
Source: Washington Post
4/27/2021
Curt Flood's legal battle against Major League Baseball opened the doors to free agency and empowered players as never before, but he fought it largely alone and it took a terrible personal toll on him.
Source: House Beautiful
4/26/2021
Brent Leggs and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are mobilizing to protect and preserve sites important to African American history ranging from Joe Frazier's Philadelphia boxing gym to the Gaston Motel where civil rights leaders stayed while visiting Birmingham.
Source: HuffPost
4/28/2021
The proposed dollar value of spending in Biden's recovery plan isn't the best measure of comparison to the New Deal. Does the plan assume the society is basically sound and in need of "bailing out" or unsound and in need of restructuring? Historian Eric Rauchway explains.
Source: Mother Jones
4/28/2021
A decision made by Franklin Roosevelt to move immigration services from jurisdiction of the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice laid the groundwork for criminalizing immigration and for abusive practices that came to light in the most recent administration.
Source: Lapham's Quarterly
4/28/2021
by Emily K. Abel
Historian Emily Abel's book on fatigue deals in part with how Progressive era reformers approached the problem of the tired industrial worker. Ultimately, they favored solutions that emphasized efficiency and management, undercutting the ability of the labor movement to demand shorter work hours.
Source: Retro Report
4/26/2021
The Cold War may be over, but an arms race continues, even as safeguards once in place have fallen away. Some experts worry that nuclear weapons may pose a greater threat to humanity than ever before.
Source: New York Times
4/24/2021
New research shows little evidence that the civilization centered around Cahokia in the Mississippi valley caused its own demise by environmental mismanagement, indicating that perhaps "stories of great civilizations seemingly laid low by ecological hubris may say more about our current anxieties and assumptions than the archaeological record."
Source: Car and Driver
4/25/2021
Mia Bay's new book examines how the forces of Black freedom and White supremacy collided over freedom of movement.
Source: New York Times
4/24/2021
The declaration, which has been long expected, was greeted with modest enthusiasm by human rights activists who view it as symbolic, and with denunciations by the Turkish government.
Source: The Atlantic
by Judith Shulevitz
"Roth had baggage in all domains of life, and Bailey, an eager bellhop, carries the whole load for him—the unhappy marriages and contentious divorces and relationships and affairs and everything else as well."
Source: The Atlantic
4/26/2021
The writer's personal experiences, in light of a historical review of ideas about female sexuality, suggests that more knowledge has reinforced the social control of women by making pleasure obligatory rather than prohibited (Note: contains frank, explicit and extensive discussions of sexual activity).
Source: Boston Review
4/23/2021
by Steven Hahn
Three books support a reconceptualization of the Age of Revolution from below, accounting for the way that struggles for emancipation shaped the world that emerged.
Source: Age of Revolutions
4/26/2021
by Crystal Eddins
"Wicked Flesh" enriches understanding of the African diaspora by focusing attention on the intimate lives of women as political and significant.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
4/27/2021
Medical historian Ed Cohen describes the 1832 cholera outbreak as "imperial blowback," as the disease arrived in Europe from their colonies. Nearly 2% of the city's population died, but the aftermath saw an increase in migration from the countryside and a flourishing of public health-oriented planning.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
4/14/2021
Attracting migrants was the key to Amsterdam's economic and social recovery, according to a study of historical data by two Dutch economists.
Source: Majority Report with Sam Seder
4/19/2021
Historian Joshua D. Rothman discusses "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America," a new book linking the internal slave trade to the development of American capitalism.
Source: New York Times
4/25/2021
by Thomas E. Ricks
Malcolm Gladwell's new study of the US Air Force unexpectedly rehabilitates the image of General Curtis LeMay.
Source: Jacobin
4/25/2021
The growing far right has sought to draw a moral equivalency between Italian Fascists and the leftist partisans, including Communists, who fought to expel fascist forces from occupied Yugoslavia at the end of World War II. Historian Eric Gobetti says that victims of reprisals were targeted for fascist allegiance, not Italian ethnicity.
Source: NPR Illinois
4/26/2021
Historian Ara Sanjian says that the Biden Administration's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue.
