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: Yale Law School
1/23/2023
Legal historians have argued that the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment offer a more solid rationale for reproductive rights than the now-defunct right to privacy, though the court's majority has expressed skepticism while not directly ruling on the question.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
1/22/2023
The writer discusses his conclusions about the evolution of the debate among American Jews about the nature of their relationship to Israel and the moral status of American policy.
Source: New York Times
1/17/2023
by Jon Meacham
"To me, Larson’s unemotional account of the Republic’s beginnings confirms a tragic truth: that influential white Americans knew — and understood — that slavery was wrong and liberty was precious, but chose not to act according to that knowledge and that understanding."
Source: Washington Post
1/21/2023
The Professor Emeritus at Florida International University says that he can't teach about the history of racist terrorism in the state without registering disgust for the actions of lynch mobs or offering clarity about the political purposes of the violence.
Source: New York Times
1/13/2023
Novels by Kai Thomas, Jamila Minnicks, and Nyani Nkrumah tell stories of Black life at the Canadian end of the Underground Railroad, an all-Black town in 1950s Alabama, and in post-Civil Rights Mississippi.
Source: New York Times
1/17/2023
The British Museum and Greek government officials have acknowledged secret talks over the last two years about the repatriation of marbles taken by Lord Elgin from the Parthenon in the early 1800s. The resolution is not yet known.
Source: 19th News
1/12/2023
By framing Chisholm as a person with a life history, Curwood elevates knowledge of the New York congresswoman from a "first major party candidate" to a political theorist and visionary.
Source: New York Times
1/12/2023
Predictions made by Exxon's own scientists beginning in the 1970s accurately tracked the actual progress of subsequent warming, and those scientists explicitly contradicted dismissals of anthropogenic climate change linked to fossil fuels.
Source: New York Times
1/16/2023
An oral history of New York's notorious jail is chaotic and difficult, but could an account of the place be any different and be true?
Source: New York Times
1/12/2023
While they claim to be fighting abusive government agencies, promised investigations have uncomfortable parallels to McCarthy and HUAC, warns historian Beverly Gage.
Source: Science
1/13/2023
Exxon Mobil's internal documents show that since the late 1970s the company's researchers agreed with academic scientists' predictions of global warming—but continued for decades to pretend that the science was too uncertain to justify constraining the industry.
Source: Washington Post
1/15/2023
Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn were shot and killed by military police for asking a French Red Cross worker for donuts. The aftermath showed the administrative and bureaucratic racism of the military supported and protected individual prejudice in the ranks.
Source: The Nation
1/13/2023
The historian's critique of the committee's report—that it focused too narrowly on Trump and not enough on the far right movement—is undercut by a false equivalency that election denial and conspiratorial thinking are equally prevalent on the left and right of the spectrum.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/13/2023
Adminstrators and the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations have defended a personnel decision that academic freedom advocate have called egregious.
Source: Foreign Policy
1/16/2023
Adam Tooze discusses King's longstanding efforts to link racial discrimination and economic exploitation, as well as the working-class base of the civil rights movement.
Source: MSNBC
1/15/2023
Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar discusses how to replace the current electoral system with something more democratic and participatory.
Source: NPR
1/17/2023
Roe author Mary Ziegler has chronicled the legal, political and cultural battles around abortion, and says the debate is far from over: "We're at the very beginning of something very confusing."
Source: WGBH
1/10/2022
"It would be hard to exaggerate the degree to which rules can be weapons in Congress if they're deployed the right way."
Source: CNN
1/12/2023
“The violence that destroyed a Black community, destroyed families, it prevented families from passing on their legacy and property to their kids and their grandkids,” said Maxine Jones, a historian at Florida State University who was the lead researcher on the Rosewood reparations case.
Source: The New Republic
1/12/2023
by Patrick Iber
After urging the United States to firmly oppose the expansion of Soviet influence as a way of bringing the USSR's internal weaknesses to the forefront, Kennan grew disillusioned at the militarized tack later versions of "containment" took. A new book revisits and challenges canonical studies of the diplomatic thinker.
