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: NextCity
2/9/2023
Clayborn Benson of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum is finding common cause with planning activists who want to take down the freeways that separated North Milwaukee from the rest of the city and contributed to its decline.
Source: The New Yorker
2/11/2023
Stephen Casper, Emily Harrison and Jeremy Greene argue that league-affiliated researchers who claim the jury is out about whether head injuries in competition contribute to long-term cognitive and mental deterioration are ignoring a long archive of medical studies that solidifies the link.
Source: The New Republic
2/14/2023
by Samuel Moyn
"All along, not much ever separated neocons such as Kagan from a nationalist such as Trump, except the pretense that what is good for the United States, including all its war-making, is good for the world." But does the public buy it?
Source: New York Times
2/14/2023
Was the holiday a Christian cooptation of the Roman Lupercalia, a wine-fueled fertility rite? Was Saint Valentine a mashup of two early Christians whose name was slapped on the day to try to get people to put their pants back on?
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/9/2023
As historians and humanists seek to demonstrate the public value of their knowledge, it doesn't make sense to make public-facing history work a career-killer, according to the AHA.
Source: New York Times
2/13/2023
The College Board, seeking to explain significant changes to the course's curriculum, maintained its denial that it did not make the alterations under pressure from Florida officials who, it said, showed “ignorance and derision for the field of African American studies.”
Source: Baltimore Banner
2/5/2023
Black community historians have long been the keepers of historical knowledge about places and local traditions that elite institutions have considered unimportant. As they age, who will carry on their work and preserve and keep the documentary record?
Source: Codastory
2/7/2023
PEN America's Jeremy Young explains how Florida's reforms go further than any others in American history to limit the institutional autonomy of colleges and subject their operations to more direct political control.
Source: KJZZ
2/7/2023
Patrick Bixby's work examines the cultural history of the passport and how documents secure the freedom to travel.
Source: The New Yorker
2/3/2023
Historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss the roots of African American Studies in civil rights activism, which makes the decision to de-emphasize contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter inexplicable and diminishes the power of the course to help students make sense of the society.
Source: Washington Post
2/5/2023
As Mississippi prepared to launch a state-run educational television network in 1970, its members voted 3-2 that images of a multiracial group of children at play on "Sesame Street" would antagonize conservative politicians and jeopardize the network's funding.
Source: WTVR
2/4/2023
“Researchers and librarians would say things like, 'That history just doesn’t exist.' Or, 'We just don’t have those records,'" Lydia Neuroth with the Library of Virginia explained. "But we are realizing we do. We just haven’t done a good job sharing it.”
Source: Distillations
2/7/2023
The Science History Institute presents a new podcast series on the development of the idea of race in the context of Enlightement, colonialism and empire.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/7/2023
United Faculty of Florida President: "Since 2021, DeSantis has pushed through efforts to compel state-sponsored speech on campus, dismantle oversight, encourage corruption-breeding secrecy and invade the personal lives of all higher ed community members."
Source: New York Times
1/30/2023
Scholars have released a comprehensive survey of bodies discovered in bogs, including a database of more than 1,000 bodies from 266 sites spanning approximately 7,000 years of northern European history.
Source: Harvard Gazette
1/31/2023
A conference hosted by the Radcliffe Institute convened legal and historical scholars to discuss the future of reproductive rights.
Source: The New Republic
2/7/2023
by Sean T. Byrnes
Pekka Hämäläinen seeks to frame the history of North America in terms of the indigenous peoples who settled the continent before the arrival of Europeans and, crucially, continued to dominate the continent into the nineteenth century.
Source: TIME
2/1/2023
by Olivia B. Waxman
The Harvard historian, one of the principal evaluators of the AP curriculum, says that the most prominent public statements about the pilot course reflect misunderstanding or deception about what its contents really are.
Source: African American Studies Faculty in Higher Ed
1/31/2023
"We categorically reject DeSantis’s autocratic claim to knowing what college-level material should be available in an AP African American Studies course. There is no precedent, of which we are aware, for him or the Florida Department of Education to claim expertise on any other subject matter for AP course adoption."
Source: Organization of American Historians
2/1/2023
"The OAH further rejects the characterization of these scholars and their scholarship as examples of “woke indoctrination,” and instead recognize them as central to the interdisciplinary research and teaching of African American history and culture, as well as American history more broadly."
