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: MSNBC
10/26/2022
"Ex-Confederates didn't let go of slavery lightly. They did what they could to hold on to it. And so, African-Americans largely had to fight their way out of bondage."
Source: Washington Post
11/1/2022
Historian Mark Metzler Sawin explains why pickup trucks are the top-selling vehicles in America, even as the country is more urbanized and less engaged with farm and manual labor than ever before.
Source: Balls and Strikes
10/28/2022
The historian says that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was on the right track to argue that the meaning of the 14th Amendment must be understood in context of its authors' intention to end the race-based subjugation of Black people.
Source: The Atlantic
10/30/2022
by David Frum
David Frum asks what's behind the summer's AHA dustup.
Source: New York Times
10/30/2022
Cahill's 1995 surprise bestseller emphasized the role of isolated Irish monks in preserving religious and literary scholarship after the fall of Rome.
Source: Foreign Affairs
11/1/2022
by Margaret O'Mara
Three books collectively demand a reckoning with Silicon Valley's immense social power; tech executives would do well to listen, says a technology historian.
Source: The Hub
10/27/2022
Prof. Mitchell and host Karen Hunter discuss who the audience is for "Till" and whether movies about lynching are needed today.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
10/26/2022
Matt Garcia, William Deverell and others share personal reflections on their personal and professional intersections with the mold-breaking historian and activist.
Source: Boston Review
10/26/2022
by Mike King
A posthumous collection of writings by the historian and labor activist reveals his practice-based thoughts on work, power, and politics, and the necessity of abolishing the idea of whiteness to create working class solidarity and power.
Source: The Nation
10/25/2022
by Jon Wiener
"Mike hated being called “a prophet of doom.” Yes, LA did explode two years after City of Quartz; the fires and floods did get more intense after Ecology of Fear, and of course a global pandemic did follow The Monster at Our Door."
Source: American Historical Association
10/24/2022
Congratulations to this years honorees for publication, teaching, mentoring and service to the profession.
Source: Washington Post
10/24/2022
Although the Republicans are split, it seems clear that Putin is working to boost the isolationist elements of the MAGA movement at a moment when Ukrainian forces are close to defeating Russia's invasion with international and American support.
Source: WBUR
10/24/2022
The African American experience of war began before Pearl Harbor, and was always grounded in the imperative of defeating a global fascist movement lest it gain more traction in the United States.
Source: New Books Network
10/24/2022
Ahmed White's book on the IWW examines the effort to crush the radical union, and how the war on radical labor impacted free speech, political representation, and freedom of association.
Source: The Trace
10/25/2022
Only a tiny majority of Republicans in contested races will go on record with an opinion about Sandy Hook conspiracist Alex Jones. A historian of the conspiratorial far right explains why.
Source: Current
10/25/2022
Historians have long recognized that the southern economy shifted from tobacco and indigo cultivation toward cotton and sugar in the late 18th century. A new book examines this revolutionary economic change and how free and enslaved Louisianans experienced it.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/24/2022
by Len Gutkin
"A conference on academic freedom to which the uninvited are unfree to attend is a parody."
Source: NPR
10/20/2022
Books by Frank Dikötter and Julian Gewirtz highlight the path taken by the Chinese Communist state leading to the recent 20th party conference, and the alternative paths untaken.
Source: Academe
10/22/2022
by Aimee Loiselle and Jennifer M. Miller
Faculty and students concerned with influencing the operations of their own campuses need to understand how university budgeting and finance work, and not leave that knowledge in the hands of administrators alone.
Source: WBUR
10/21/2022
Waksman's new book explains how a live performance depends on the confluence of art and business.
