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
6/7/2021
by Alex Pareene
The Senate's ethics processes reflect an instution that has historically policed itself. They are completely useless when Senators ignore see political advantage in ignoring institutional norms.
Source: The New Republic
6/7/2021
by Michael Tomasky
Great Britain made the wise choice of diminishing the political power of the House of Lords. The New Republic's editor says that the history of Parliament and Congress shows it's time to do the same to the Senate.
Source: New York Times
6/2/2021
The publishers, who will donate proceeds to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, argue that with other versions of Hitler's manifesto circulating widely, a translation that preserves the incoherence and paranoia of the original with extensive debunking commentary is a positive contribution to efforts to fight the far right.
Source: New York Times
6/4/2021
by Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks weighs in on the new culture war over teaching history.
Source: The Bulwark
6/2/2021
by Charlie Sykes
The Bulwark founder Charlie Sykes weighs in on the controversy over teaching history.
Source: Slate
6/1/2021
The social rituals of the white elite of St. Louis are historically difficult to separate from the rituals of white supremacy, as a social media blowup involving the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt actress showed this week.
Source: Slate
6/2/2021
by Alice Marwick and Daniel Kreiss
Two of Nikole Hannah-Jones's prospective UNC colleagues describe the pressure to prevent her being hired with tenure a part of a long pattern of conservative political activism using disinformation and distortion as weapons to control what is taught at universities.
Source: Washingtonian
6/3/2021
Historian Brent McKee presents a guide to sites around the greater Washington area that show how the New Deal transformed the region, from historic preservation to wastewater treatment.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
6/2/2021
Georgia is the latest state in which conservatives have staked out social studies curricula as a culture war battle front.
Source: New York Times
6/2/2021
The damaging import from the US isn't "cancel culture" but a politicized and defensively narrow nationalism. Journalist Cole Stangler says "culture wars are America’s true gift to France."
Source: The New Yorker
6/2/2021
When an insect emerges from the ground en masse every 17 years, it's bound to connect with some significant changes in culture and society.
Source: New York Times
6/1/2021
The local council in Reading has been thus far rebuffed in its efforts to purchase Reading Jail, the site of Oscar Wilde's incarceration for "gross indecency," to make it publicly accessible as a historical monument.
Source: Washington Post
5/28/2021
"We will from now on officially call these events what they are from a contemporary perspective: a genocide.”
Source: Mother Jones
5/28/2021
Eleanor Holmes Norton has always advocated for DC statehood and full representation in Congress, but today places a higher priority on comprehensive voting rights legislation.
Source: New York Times
6/1/2021
"From school boards to the halls of Congress, Republicans are mounting an energetic campaign aiming to dictate how historical and modern racism in America are taught."
Source: BBC
5/31/2021
The BBC editorializes that the German government's apologies for its genocidal repression in southwest Africa is more public relations than reparation.
Source: TIME
5/27/2021
Anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield discusses her family’s ties to this history, what the excavation entails, and how the search for the remains of Tulsa Race Massacre victims fits into a long and troubling history of the careless treatment of Black bodies.
Source: Defector
5/28/2021
Photographer John Margolies' images of the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk are a peek into the past of the shore town and the history of the tacky beach t-shirt.
Source: Washington Post
DC leaders are concerned that new police recruits are disconnected from the history and culture of Black communities in the District. Will history lessons help?
Source: ABC News
5/29/2021
"The decision comes as event organizers reckon with the legacy of brutality and abuse against the LGBTQ community by police that they say still continues today."
