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 Yorker
1/26/2021
"Jimi’s Woodstock anthem was both an expression of protest at the obscene violence of a wholly unnecessary war and an affirmation of aspects of the American experiment entirely worth fighting for."
Source: Mother Jones
1/26/2021
When the Senate filibuster was used sparingly, it was almost always to stop civil rights legislation. Now, it's used as a matter of routine to stop legislation. Democrats can choose to keep the filibuster or pass laws, but not both.
Source: The Week
1/26/2021
The Senate negotiations over the Affordable Care Act and the 2009 Recovery Act are not ancient history. It remains to be seen if Senate Democrats can learn from them.
Source: National History Center
1/25/2021
Please join the National History Center of the American Historical Association for a Washington History Seminar roundtable on Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory with author Claudio Saunt. TODAY 4:00 PM EST
Source: New York Historical Society
1/25/2021
The Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce its spring 2021 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty: America’s Unregulated Police.
Source: ESPN
1/22/2021
by Howard Bryant
Hank Aaron biographer Howard Bryant shared common experiences with the baseball legend as a Black man in the sports industry. He writes about the legacy of the slugger who lived through the Jim Crow and civil rights eras and died at age 86 today.
Source: YouTube
1/22/2021
The baseball Hall of Famer and one-time home run leader died at age 86 on January 22. Here, watch his record-breaking 715th home run, as announced by broadcasting legend Vin Scully.
Source: Foreign Policy
1/18/2021
by Joel Rubin
A former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state argues that the threat of far-right political violence demands a stepped-up response from law enforcement.
Source: New York Times
1/21/2021
People who lived through the 2017 white supremacist invasion of Charlottesville warn that there can't be any unity without accountability.
Source: Associated Press
1/21/2021
"In documents announcing Biden’s executive order, administration officials said the panel sought to erase America’s history of racial injustice'."
Source: New York Times
1/17/2021
Tom Lankford took many iconic photographs in Birmingham that publicized the cause of Civil Rights protestors. But he worked behind the scenes to cultivate relationships with the city's notorious Bull Connor to buttress the reputation of the police force while working with his publisher to squelch local demands for change that threatened the business community.
Source: The Atlantic
1/21/2021
by Ronald Brownstein
Joe Biden's inaugural address was the first since Lincoln's in 1861 that used the term "disunion," emphasizing the severity of America's political division and Biden's potential to create a political realignment around commitment to democracy and democratic culture.
Source: Fresno Bee
1/14/2021
RetroReport produces a short documentary examining how longterm housing discrimination in Fresno, CA has contributed to unequal health and economic outcomes in the COVID pandemic.
Source: Smithsonian
1/15/2021
The new film "MLK/FBI" addresses Americans' failure to remember that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was unpopular, labeled as divisive and subversive, and subject to harassment by federal law enforcement agencies during his life.
Source: The Hill
1/16/2021
by Niall Stanage
The Hill's correspondent argues that the pattern of inciting violence and denying responsibility on display in Washington on January 6 has a grim resemblance to the work of demagogue Ian Paisley during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Source: Washington Post
1/17/2021
Black business owners in the Greenwood district of Tulsa argue that the city's redevelopment plans for the area will erase the history of the 1921 race massacre, even as that history has begun to be recovered.
Source: New York Times
1/18/2021
James Grossman of the American Historical Association was one of the first of many historians to attack the 1776 Commission document as "cynical politics" and note that not one professional historian of the United States took part in crafting it.
Source: New York Times
1/16/2021
After being wounded by National Guard fire at Kent State, Canfora worked tirelessly to ensure that the violence would not be erased from the university's or the nation's history.
Source: Vice
1/12/2021
Before it was removed from Amazon Web Services, researchers archived a significant number of the posts on Parler, the network favored by many on the far right. That data could prove useful in figuring out what happened around and inside the Capitol on January 6.
Source: Washington Post
1/13/2021
A fellow Olympic winner contends that the IOC must restore medals and recognition stripped from Jim Thorpe; his violation of amateurism rules was encouraged officials of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and the American Olympic Committee who made the Native American athlete a fall guy.
