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: Contingent
3/22/2020
by Josh Carmony
A nontraditional history student argues that the situations of most of his college instructors were similar to those of his subcontracted coworkers in the airline industry.
Source: Facing South
3/11/2021
by Olivia Paschal
By overriding state "right to work" laws and allowing unions to collect the equivalent of dues from non-members, the PRO Act passed by the House would undo a political movement that both squelched labor organizing in the South and maintained white supremacy.
Source: The Atlantic
3/17/2021
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong discusses the status of Asian Americans in the US and the growing hostility inspired by the pandemic.
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch
3/16/2021
“This bill is a denial of history,” Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines, said. “The bill doesn’t want our next generations to receive complete American history education that includes the facts of our darkest hours.”
Source: NewsChannel 5 (Nashville)
3/17/2021
Some conservative legislators are upset with the state Historical Commission's recent decision to remove a memorial to slave trader and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee capitol.
Source: Washington Post
3/18/2021
by Gillian Brockell
An overview of significant incidents of violence and discrimination against Asian people in the United States.
Source: MSNBC
3/17/2021
Columnist Hayes Brown says that it's only fitting that new Jim Crow-style voting restrictions are a national phenomenon; Thomas Rice, the minstrelsy performer who invented the Jim Crow character was a New Yorker who successfully peddled anti-Black caricature across the nation.
Source: New York Times
3/16/2021
These are the first new parchment fragments unearthed in Judea in 60 years.
Source: Library of Congress
3/17/2021
The Library of Congress has a dedicated page for documents related to Irish and Irish American history.
Source: The Atlantic
3/11/2021
Multiple ethnic groups collaborated to convince the Census Bureau to include questions about Hispanic identity in 1980; the move shed light on the growth of a large demographic group, but obscured important divisions among Latino ethnicities.
Source: New York Times
3/10/2021
Charles Hill of Scotland Yard was without peer in recovering stolen art masterpieces.
Source: BBC
3/15/2021
French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot: "Eighty-three years after the forced sale of this painting by Nora Stiasny, this is the accomplishment of an act of justice."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/15/2021
by Emma Pettit
"For years, locals have made bogeymen out of the faculty, characterizing them as radicals with leftist agendas, committed to indoctrinating students."
Source: Paris Review
3/11/2021
by Halle Butler
The resurrection of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's literary stature in the 1970s ran counter to the author's own self-understanding, summed up in her statement "I abominate being called a feminist." It also obscured her racist nativism.
Source: Democracy
3/14/2021
by Nicol Turner Lee
The pandemic has shown that internet technology is key for how Americans work, connect, and access learning and services. Making access more equitable and widespread should be at the center of economic recovery programs following the example of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Source: New York Times
3/14/2021
Partly due to the way streaming service users listen, the structures of pop music songs have changed in recent years; although today's hits are built differently than those of the 1960s, it's part of a long pattern of change in pop.
Source: New York Times
3/10/2021
Idan Dershowitz claims that a manuscript fragment denounced as a forgery in 1883 is authentic and is a precursor document to the book of Deuteronomy. If he's right, it would be the oldest known biblical manuscript.
Source: New York Times
3/11/2021
The descendants of the Bruce family seek restitution for the taking of their family's beachfront land, which had been Southern California's first beach resort serving African Americans. Historian Alison Rose Jefferson says recreational access was an underappreciated facet of the struggle for justice.
Source: New York Times
3/12/2021
As the last fluent speaker of the tribe’s language, Mr. Juma’s death means that much of the tribe’s language and many of its traditions and rituals will be forever lost.
Source: YouTube
8/15/2020
A composite video of Berlin shows the same Berlin streets in 1902 and 2015.
