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: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/29/2022
Fossil fuel profit "secures favorable white papers, journals, societies, public-policy comments, courtroom testimony, and front groups that attack what the industry sees as damaging science," copying the 1950s playbook of the tobacco industry with more money and higher stakes.
Source: Perspectives on History
9/29/2022
by James Grossman
By merging the National History Center with the AHA, both organizations hope to alleviate the burdens of cost and time associated with running separate organizations and enable the Center to diffuse historical knowledge through scholarship, writing and teaching.
Source: The Baffler
10/4/2022
Books by Michael Kazin and Lily Geismer trace the rise and fall of the Democratic Party's reign as a party of big ideas and big initiatives.
Source: Black Perspectives
10/4/2022
by Danielle L. McGuire
Keisha Blain's book offers a broader portrait of Hamer as a visionary activist who understood the interconnected issues of sex, class and power that affected the Black freedom movement.
Source: New York Times
10/4/2022
"What does the act of memorializing, who is remembered and who is left out, tell us about how people lived, what they valued, and the way we live now?"
Source: Civil Eats
10/4/2022
Julia Skinner says that the tradition of fermenting and preserving connects us to the ways earlier humans managed seasonal growing and avoided waste.
Source: Kansas City Star
10/2/2022
Historian Sarah Horowitz found the tale of Marguerite Steinheil too juicy to confine to an academic book, though the scandal shows how women navigated sex and inequality at the end of the nineteenth century.
Source: Colorado Sun
10/3/2022
A report alleged that the professor misused the time and work of center staff for personal projects; it remains unclear if the report was the reason for her removal from an academic center she founded.
Source: Gilder Lehrman Institute
9/29/2022
“I enjoy witnessing students see themselves represented in their nation’s history. Through learning about groups and communities they identify with, they become passionate learners and understand the importance of learning history.”
Source: Washington Post
9/26/2022
For most people, attempting to hijack a presidential election and killing the first Treasury Secretary in a duel would be capstones to a career of infamy. Not Aaron Burr.
Source: Washington Post
9/25/2022
A labor agency in Mississippi experimented with a creative, if evil, solution to the problem of Black demands for labor rights at the turn of the 20th century: trick Italian farmers to sign contracts that shackled them with debt to their employers.
Source: Washington Post
9/28/2022
Scholar of the right Joshua Tait discusses the prospects of JD Vance and Blake Masters with Post columnist Greg Sargent. Can they put a moderate face on full-blown Trumpism?
Source: Civil Eats
9/26/2022
The scholar discusses researching school lunch policies in the U.S., U.K., and Australia – and in his own household—and how nutrition policy relates to inequality, health, and learning.
Source: News Talk
9/25/2022
Patrick Geoghegan talks all things Cromwell with a panel of historians.
Source: NPR
9/25/2022
Jonathan Gienapp says that the Framers made deliberate choices to make the Constitution a bulwark against what they saw as the danger of broad-based democracy.
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
9/26/2022
Raphael Rogers of Clark University notes that even in Massachusetts there are multiple possible "land mines" that social studies teachers need to navigate in lessons dealing with slavery.
Source: KERA
9/26/2022
Historians concur that while the task of condensing the state's history into a dozen pages is a difficult task, the choices made by the state commission aim at preserving patriotic myths favored by the right.
Source: The New Republic
9/23/2022
Historians Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams have edited a new collection of essays putting the pandemic in historical perspective, with contributors showing how the pandemic robbed us of both life and time.
Source: WBUR
9/26/2022
Despite the violence and brutality of the subject matter, historian Keisha Blain calls the upcoming Emmett Till film essential viewing in a time when it can't be assumed that everyone knows the story.
Source: NPR
9/21/2022
Putin's cautious declaration of a partial mobilization reflects his increasingly desperate military situation and the growing unpopularity of the Ukraine war in Russia.
