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: Dallas Observer
2/24/2023
The historian at South Texas College is seeking acknowledgment by the state legislature and elected officials representing the Rio Grande Valley of the atrocities committed under the color of law by the Texas Rangers after Texas independence.
Source: WUFT
2/24/2023
“The state of Florida has banned aspects of African American studies within grades K-12 and are now trying to further ban higher education students from learning critical ways to understand how race and racism works,” [historian Paul] Ortiz said.
Source: The New Republic
2/27/2023
by Kim Phillips-Fein
Glory M. Liu's account of Adam Smith's reception in America explains how American politicians read selectively in Smith's capacious writings on political economy and public morality to construct a self-interested view of the market as a natural phenomenon, writes historian Kim Phillips-Fein.
Source: Yale Daily News
2/27/2023
The historian was praised by colleagues and former students for his scholarship, mentorship and personal warmth.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
2/26/2023
Nazi policy toward the nation's Black residents was strongly influenced by American Jim Crow laws and illustrates the dangers of militantly racial ideas of nationhood.
Source: Washington Post
2/19/2023
The excision of terms like "systemic" from the AP African American Studies curriculum suggest either an idiosyncratic review process or an attempt to avoid the specific triggering keywords of the right's complaints about liberal education.
Source: The Atlantic
2/17/2023
The Villanova professor explains the incidents that led him to ask whether a center-right critique of antiracist rhetoric and discursive rules has some justification, and how a broader coalition against domination can be rescued from some censorious excesses.
Source: The New Yorker
2/17/2023
The historian of Russia and the USSR argues that Putin's invasion will ultimately be seen as a disaster for Russia. Its unclear, however, if that view is sufficiently widespread in Russia to change Putin's strategic outlook or the regime.
Source: Texas Monthly
2/23/2023
For decades, activists fought for public acknowledgment of the lynching of teenaged Jesse Washington in 1916. Against the current of efforts to suppress the history of racist violence, a marker was unveiled this week. Historians Patricia Bernstein, William Carrigan and James SoRelle were involved in the effort.
Source: NBC News
2/17/2023
Duncan Ryuken Williams of the University of Southern California led a research team for three years assembling a documentary record that could restore the individuality of 125,000 victims of internment.
Source: New York Times
2/14/2023
A group of chefs is working to highlight the role of African-descended people, including enslaved Black people, creoles, and Haitian migrants, in creating the city's cuisine; food scholar Zella Palmer emphasizes that culinary ability and knowledge was among the skills targeted by traffickers who brought west Africans to New Orleans.
Source: Bloomberg
2/18/2023
A microhistory of one Alabama county suggests that "freedom" has always been imagined by many white Americans to encompass their ability to dominate or exploit others, a vision that has been antagonistic to federal intervention.
Source: Dissent
2/17/2023
A decade before the Great Depression, capital responded to a serious crisis of legitimacy by adopting measures that punished a restive working class through scarcity, argues a new economic history; maintaining hierarchy, not growing the economy, is the objective.
Source: New York Times
2/19/2023
Nothing, from the date to the name to the punctuation, has been straightforward in the celebration of Presidents' Day (which is officially observed by the federal government as Washington's Birthday), says biographer Alexis Coe.
Source: CBS News
2/19/2023
60 Minutes covers a nonprofit group working to preserve and document Black American history. Julieanna Richardson's team has conducted, transcribed and posted more than 3,500 oral history interviews.
Source: Matter of Fact
2/19/2023
The education historian joins Soledad O'Brien to discuss past controversies over how the past is taught.
Source: The Atlantic
2/14/2023
by Ibram X. Kendi
Education historian Jarvis Givens discusses a 90th anniversary edition of Carter Woodson's pathbreaking "The Mis-Education of the Negro," noting that the book was banned in Oklahoma for being "antiklan" in its efforts to overturn the pervasive message of Black inferiority in the established school curriculum.
Source: WBUR
2/14/2023
The UCLA historian discusses what the changes mean for the course in the future and how they reflect the politics of the present.
Source: The Baffler
2/8/2023
by Gábor Schein
Gábor Schein offers a "poetry of witness" for the mutilation of history in service of Hungarian nationalism.
Source: Slate
2/9/2023
Jeremy Young of PEN America and Chyna-Lee Hunter, a Miami high school senior, discuss the chilling effect already spreading from Florida's decision to block the AP African American studies course.
