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.
12/1/2022
"All that She Carried" was a unanimous choice of the prestigious prize's jurors.
Source: Google
11/30/2022
A group of historians hopes to persuade President Biden and Labor Secretary Martin Walsh to uphold railroad workers' right to strike and to intervene in negotiations to help secure a contract with sick day provisions.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
11/27/2022
"Last Train to Auschwitz" looks at the railways as a means of escape for some, but also a tool of collaborators.
Source: TIME
11/28/2022
The strike is driven by the crises in both academic labor and housing costs, which make poverty wages for graduate student workers far less tolerable than they used to be. Historian James Vernon is one faculty member cancelling his classes in solidarity.
Source: Washington Post
11/28/2022
Post Columnist Greg Sargent discusses Trump's meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes as a PR coup for the far right and an affirmation that they are part of Trump's base.
Source: New York Review of Books
11/29/2022
by Corey Robin
The political scientist Corey Robin considers a new book on Adam Smith's thought, and the role it played in posing questions about the purpose of the economy, and its relationship to individuals a selves embedded in society.
Source: The Nation
11/29/2022
by John Ganz
Nicole Hemmer's book "Partisans" looks to a generation of conservatives who found the Reagan Revolution inadequate and laid the foundations for MAGA during the Clinton years.
Source: MSNBC
11/28/2022
"Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power."
Source: Smithsonian
11/29/2022
Candice Millard, Jonathan Freedland, Kerri K. Greenidge, April White, Beverly Gage, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Matthew Delmont, Megan Kate Nelson, Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Estelle Paranque are recognized as authors of the top books in history this year.
Source: Boston Review
11/21/2022
The historian discusses the ongoing threat of the antidemocratic far right, despite the failure of the "red wave" in the midterms, abetted by the willingness of many Democrats to cave to panics about crime.
Source: Associated Press
11/21/2022
Cooking large meals represented a breakthrough in human evolution, both because cooked foods proved easier to digest and support larger brains and because the occasions supported more complex social organization.
Source: WBUR
11/17/2022
Professor Charles Gallagher discusses the Christian Front, a local branch of followers of Father Charles Coughlin, that pushed a variety of antisemitic and nativist political positions in Boston between the World Wars.
Source: National Constitution Center
11/17/2022
H.W. Brands, Lori Daggar and Lindsay Robertson join National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen to discuss new perspectives on the histories of conquest in the American west.
Source: Education Week
11/16/2022
A Gilder Lehrman Center panel examined the potential and problems of trying to teach a comprehensive history of the nation in light of multiculturalism and the growing diversity of historical perspectives on slavery, emancipation and equality.
Source: The New Yorker
11/14/2022
Beverly Gage's book explains the FBI director's longevity not to dark arts of blackmail and secret-keeping, but to a more straightforward and disturbing explanation: many Americans shared Hoover's reactionary views and liked how he cracked down on dissenters.
Source: New York Times
11/19/2022
Building on the work of Kathleen Belew and others, the Times editorial board argues that recent episodes of racial terrorism are part of a global white nationalist movement.
Source: Wall Street Journal
11/21/2022
Texas Rangers orchestrated the killing of 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys in a Texas border town in 1918. Monica Muñoz Martinez describes this as part of a pattern of state-sanctioned racist violence in the state, which her organization Refusing to Forget is working to commemorate.
Source: Politico
11/17/2022
Tech historian Margaret O'Mara says that the social platform keeps work-addicted (and sometimes gossipy) politicos connected all the time, making it both an emotional and instrumental necessity.
Source: Washington Post
11/14/2022
John A.G. Davis, a professor of law, was killed by a masked member of a student mob engaged in firing pistols into the air to protest for the right to carry guns on campus.
Source: The Atlantic
11/8/2022
"Folklore is by its nature not handed down by an authority. It is of the people, by the people—even if those people are children."
