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: KAKE
6/28/2021
It's increasingly clear that the choice isn't between partisan and bipartisan legislation to protect voting rights, but between partisan legislation and none. But the 14th and 15th Amendments were themselves partisan.
Source: KPBS
6/28/2021
Two women activists demand accountability from the chemical industry for the toll of illness and death caused by Agent Orange.
Source: Jerusalem Post
6/29/2021
Incidents where social media algorithms take down articles that explore legitimate controversies about the Holocaust suggest that the work of controlling denialism and hate speech needs more refinement.
Source: NPR
6/28/2021
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on nations to "stop denying and start dismantling" racism through means including, but not limited to, monetary compensation.
Source: WBUR
6/28/2021
Daniel Freudberg covered Daniel Ellsberg's trial as a teenager. Here, he recalls the experience and the real-time impact of the Pentagon Papers' publication.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6/29/2021
by Colleen Flaherty
The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a special meeting Wednesday, reportedly to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Source: New York Times
6/26/2021
Times columnist Ross Douthat looks at the latest battle in the history curriculum wars and concludes that progressive efforts to tell hidden stories about the American past have bled into efforts to craft radical narratives that the nation's founding is inherently corrupted by racism.
Source: Slow Boring
6/29/2021
Matt Yglesias looks at the CRT controversy and Ross Douthat's recent column on teaching history, and concludes that conservatives aren't mad at America looking bad in revisionist history, but about conservatives looking bad.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
6/30/2021
Columnist Will Bunch argues that the nationwide attack on "Critical Race Theory" echoes the anticommunist politics Hofstadter described in "The Paranoid Style," which he discusses with education professor Robert Dahlgren.
Source: New York Times
6/29/2021
The bill would remove from public view monuments to figures associated with the Confederacy or the causes of slavery and white supremacy that motivated it, including a bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the notorious Dred Scott decision.
Source: NBC News
6/15/2021
"The growth of school board-focused groups has coincided with a broader conservative effort to make critical race theory a national referendum on the discussion of race in America."
Source: The Atlantic
6/16/2021
Writer Kaitlyn Tiffany considers the impact of the Kodak company's product on American culture and the city of Rochester where she grew up, and the way that digital technology has changed both.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
6/16/2021
What’s happening in state houses right now, said AHA executive director Jim Grossman, is not about scholarship or scholarly debate. “It is about riling up voters.”
Source: NPR
6/17/2021
US Rep. Barbara Lee was among the few opponents of giving George W. Bush authority to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Her resolution to repeal that legislation now has more than 130 cosponsors.
Source: New York Times
6/11/2021
Portions of a Rex Whistler mural in the Tate's restaurant contain racially offensive images. The work as a whole is protected by British heritage laws and can't be altered, putting the museum in a bind between preservation and cultural sensitivity.
Source: New York Times
6/9/2021
From RAND Corporation leaker Daniel Ellsberg to first amendement litigator Floyd Abrams, the key players in the 1971 publication of the Pentagon papers reflect on their work 50 years later.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
6/11/2021
James Leloudis, a history professor at UNC, had extensive conversations with Walter Hussman, but apparently failed to sway his opposition to the appointment of the NYT reporter and 1619 Project creator with tenure at Chapel Hill.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6/15/2021
VTS, founded in 1823, said in a 2019 statement that it “recognizes that enslaved persons worked on the campus and that even after slavery ended, VTS participated in segregation. VTS recognizes that we must start to repair the material consequences of our sin in the past.”
Source: New York Times
6/14/2021
Justices disagreed about what lessons to draw from the history of the 1986 Crime Bill that created the sentencing disparity for crack cocaine offenses. Does the fact that some Black organizations at the time supported the law excuse its racist impact?
Source: Washington Post
6/12/2021
by Valerie Strauss
Several thousand teachers have signed a pledge that says: “We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events — regardless of the law.”
