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: Slate
1/27/2021
"Will faculty essentially automate away their own jobs by recording lectures that can be recycled year after year?"
Source: CNN
1/27/2021
The San Francisco School Board approved the renaming of 44 schools commemorating figures ranging from George Washington to Dianne Feinstein.
Source: NPR
1/22/2021
Historian Lloyd Washington has worked to raise awareness among younger African Americans of the 1919 song that has served as the official song of the NAACP and the unofficial "Black National Anthem," and credits Beyonce for a performance that introduced the BLM generation to the song.
Source: Washington Post
1/28/2021
Washington Post Political Columnist Greg Sargent says that Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiratorial bigotry reflects a historical problem with the Republican Party: the porous boundary between the mainstream and the extremist fringe. But that boundary is weaker than ever today.
Source: Vox
1/26/2021
by Anne Helen Petersen
Economic policy debates center on restoring the security of the middle class, but this overlooks that high-earning Black Americans have and still face structural impediments to building wealth through homeownership.
Source: New York Times
1/27/2021
"Suddenly, I no longer had any idea who my grandfather was, what Lithuania was, and how my own story fit in. How could I reconcile two realities? Was Jonas Noreika a monster who slaughtered thousands of Jews or a hero who fought to save his country from the Communists?" writes Silvia Foti.
Source: New York Times
1/27/2021
by Burt Neuborne and Erwin Chemerinsky
Two law professors argue that there's no need to remove the Senate filibuster. Insisting that Senators actually talk through the filibuster and that no other Senate business could be conducted during one would return to Senate rules that made the filibuster rare, rather than a routine procedure.
Source: New York Times
1/26/2021
The resurgent militia movement and renewed attention to the threat of political violence compels a reckoning with the vast number of firearms in America and with the political significance of guns.
Source: New York Times
1/26/2021
“My motto has always been that you can’t love or hate Chicano art unless you see it in person,” Marin said. “And now people will have a place to always see it.”
Source: New York Times
1/26/2021
Forty years ago, Louis Beam had the idea of using the internet to drive a movement. Today, his vision is disturbingly prevalent.
Source: The Guardian
1/21/2021
"Deborah Willis, the chair of photography at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, has curated Parks’s work in over 30 exhibitions. She says that the photographer was not only there to document everyday life during turmoil for many African Americans, but to give them hope."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
1/26/2020
The American Historical Association's pre-COVID numbers on the job market for history PhDs showed a small increase in the number of history faculty positions. It can be assumed that that stability is now gone.
Source: New York Times
1/19/2021
"On a quiet block in downtown Brooklyn, a new photography exhibit — housed inside a senior living center — invites viewers to consider an essential question: How do we measure the emotional and social costs of discrimination?"
Source: Smithsonian
1/21/2021
For the first time, archaeologists at the Saqqara necropolis have excavated coffins, estimated at 3,000 years old.
Source: Smithsonian
1/21/2021
Even before COVID-19 a combination of factors have made lesbian bars much less common than their counterparts catering to gay men. Two filmmakers are working to raise funds to keep these establishments in business. This article also explains how bars became safe gathering places as cities passed "vice" laws that subjected lesbians to police harassment in public.
Source: Smithsonian
1/15/2021
If you want to read nearly 3,000 pages of CIA documents related to reports of UFOs, now you can.
Source: The Atlantic
1/22/2021
Joe Biden's inaugural address won't be remembered as a masterpiece of rhetoric. But it succeeded in presenting an authentic and realistic picture of Biden's plans to lead the nation in crisis, argues The Atlantic writer.
Source: The Atlantic
1/17/2021
A writer became the legally-designated recipient of his sister's remains after she was killed by Argentina's military dictatorship during the nation's Dirty War. The experience led him to confront how a society suppresses the knowledge of political violence.
Source: New York Times
1/23/2021
On the surface, Raphael Warnock's campaign ads featured a cute beagle. But they reflected a calculated – and successful – effort to counter racial dynamics in Georgia politics to bring about a historic victory.
Source: Facing South
1/22/2021
Angie Maxwell emphasizes that the "Southern Strategy" was not a mechanical process of pandering to white Southerners' prejudices to swing them to the Republican Party. The process required building institutions and crafting political agendas and rhetoric over years.
