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: NPR
1/15/2021
"Reconciliation needs accountability. You can't just wash your hands and say, let's forget about the past and move forward with healing."
Source: Fortune
1/17/2021
Public Health historian Jason Schwartz suggests that discontent about the pace of vaccination is due to the Trump administration's politically motivated and unrealistic promises.
Source: The Baffler
1/18/2021
Writer Matt Stieb examines the cultural reaction to the first Gulf War by studying the topical t-shirts of the day. Blithely invoked violence and casual bigotry silkscreened on cheap fabric should be a reminder of the cruelty inherent in war.
Source: Public Books
1/20/2021
A panel of scholars discusses the concept of cross-racial solidarity and the prospects of creating powerful coalitions of the disempowered.
Source: The New Yorker
1/15/2021
Isaac Chotiner interviews Rick Perlstein on the nature of presidential misconduct and accountability.
Source: American Historical Association
1/20/2021
“Written hastily in one month after two desultory and tendentious ‘hearings,’” the AHA writes, “without any consultation with professional historians of the United States, the report fails to engage a rich and vibrant body of scholarship that has evolved over the last seven decades."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/19/2021
“I’m not sure Collin College has grasped how little control they legally have over faculty speech of private citizens,” L.D. Burnett tweeted. “They will learn.”
Source: Inside Higher Ed
1/20/2021
David Blight and Lindsay Stallones Marshall argue that the report's purpose is purely political and will result in further degradation of the public capacity to judge facts and evidence.
Source: BBC
1/19/2021
Historians of the Republican Party, US foreign policy, the media, and other specialties predict what Trump's key legacies will be.
Source: New York Times
1/19/2021
Nicole Hemmer, David Blight, Geoffrey Kabaservice, and Adam Laats place the 1776 Commission report in the context of longstanding political and cultural battles over historical narrative.
Source: The New Republic
1/20/2021
"No figure represents the hollowness of American exceptionalism quite like Donald Trump—which only makes it fitting that his presidency is ending with a pathetic and incoherent effort to rage against the death of American exceptionalism."
Source: Washington Post
1/18/2021
Political historians Joseph Crespino, Matthew Dallek and Douglas Brinkley discuss the implications for democracy of Trump's substantial support and the likelihood that the record of his presidency will be controlled by allies and shaped by unreliable narrators.
Source: New York Times
1/18/2021
Clayborne Carson, the founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute is part of a roundup of scholars and activists who point to King's speeches other than 1963's "I Have a Dream" as guiding lights for our time.
Source: HuffPost
1/15/2021
Historian Kathleen Wellman studies two major Christian textbook publishers, whose interpretations of history emphasize moral decline and the need for Christian nationalism and resonate with the themes on display at the Capitol riot.
Source: Boston Globe
1/14/2021
Heather Cox Richardson's successful newsletter and growing grassroots media stardom reflects Americans' hunger for historical understanding but also, especially among her female readers, for a calm and compassionate style of analysis.
Source: Associated Press
1/16/2021
Historians and potential prosecutors are concerned about the White House's noncompliance with the Presidential Records Act, but the truth is that the act is toothless.
Source: The Metropole
1/19/2021
A review of Eric Hinderaker's new book "Boston's Massacre" highlights the shifting narrative of the events and their place in the national story, and the perpetually unanswered conflict between limits of authority and those of popular protest.
Source: The New Yorker
1/18/2021
Historian Kathleen Belew notes the continuities in far-right and white power culture that have endured since the 1970s and were on display in the Capitol riot.
Source: FAIR
1/15/2021
Independent historian Keri Leigh Merritt talks with FAIR's CounterSpin about the problem with the media calling the January 6 Capitol riots "unprecedented."
Source: Vox
1/15/2021
Historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers and author Seyward Darby explain why the presence of women among the Capitol rioters should not be surprising.
