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: The New Republic
3/7/2023
Shaul Magid, Distinguished Fellow of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, argues that the new government's agenda will force American Jews to recognize that Israel has become an illiberal country, while historian Hasia Diner says it has long been so.
Source: Gotham Center
3/1/2023
The historian discusses a digital database he's been developing to make primary sources and their analysis more widely available for the study of queer communities in American history.
Source: The New Yorker
3/7/2023
A New Yorker reporter asks the outgoing AHA president what pushed him to write a controversial column, and other historians weigh in on what the discipline's relationship to politics should be (and whether historians themselves have the power to decide).
Source: NPR
3/6/2023
Policies that protect individual officers from civil liability, and departments from financial responsibility, have developed into a legal architecture of impunity for American police.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/3/2023
U of Florida history department chair Jon Sensbach "said the legislation would take state control of higher education to a new level in American history."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
3/1/2023
The United Public Workers of America were pioneers in organizing academic workers across professional and occupational lines, until being red-baited.
Source: Texas Public Radio
3/3/2023
A new exhibition center on the Alamo grounds has the space to display more artifacts, and a commitment to telling a more historically accurate and inclusive story of what happened in 1836.
Source: Los Angeles Times
3/6/2023
Theresa Runstedtler looks at the NBA's key transitional decade as a time when Black players didn't simply change the style of play but demanded fair treatment for the value created by their skilled labor, following the ethos of civil rights and Black Power.
Source: New York Times
2/2/2023
David Waldstreicher's "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley" places the poet in the ranks not only of the founders of American literature but of the nation itself.
Source: Forward
2/27/2023
Gordon said for him, “Black consciousness links to all oppression and that’s exactly the kind of Jewishness I was raised in. It was always explained as connected to the ethical, the political dimensions of what it was to be Jewish."
Source: Seattle Times
3/1/2023
The Seattle Times editorial board praises the web-based library, now 16 years old, founded by a University of Washington professor.
Source: London Review of Books
3/1/2023
by Eric Foner
Eric Foner considers recent books on racism in the military in World War II and in Vietnam.
Source: Government Executive
2/28/2023
While controversies around classified materials and Trump administration records dog Colleen Shogan's nomination, she recently pledged to make a priority of granting veterans access to the records they need to claim legally entitled benefits.
Source: New York Times
3/1/2023
Ron DeSantis can bolster his standing with the right by governing. Donald Trump, still the leader of the party, must invoke conspiracies and cartoonishly evil enemies. Historian Jeffrey Herf helps Thomas Edsall understand if there's an off-ramp.
Source: Black Perspectives
2/28/2023
Komozi Woodard, Jeanne Theoharis and Robyn Spencer-Antoine discuss the 10th anniversary of an important monthly discussion series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York.
Source: Associated Press
2/28/2023
In 2021 the David Dan Prize adopted an explicit focus on supporting and honoring contributions to historical understanding. Nine scholars have received awards of $300,000 to advance their work.
Source: New York Times
2/23/2023
Newell was briefly blacklisted by the leadership of the LDS Church for her work on Emma Smith, the first wife of founder Joseph Smith, which portrayed women as influential in the early church before being sidelined by an increasingly patriarchal institution.
Source: PBS News Hour
2/27/2023
The University of Virginia has begun to acknowledge the labors of enslaved people who built the campus. John Edwin Mason is curating an exhibition of photographs commissioned by Black Charlottesvillians showing how they saw themselves.
Source: CBS News
2/25/2023
Chicago historian Shermann Thomas, aka "Dilla," makes the Wabash Avenue YMCA where educator Carter Woodson was inspired to launch Negro Achievement Week a centerpiece of his guided tours of Black Chicago's history.
Source: JSTOR Daily
2/26/2023
Historian Pero Dagbovie traces shifts in hip hop's political messages and says that, to some extent the glorification of materialism replaced a focus on Black history and politics as the genre developed.
