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: New York Times
9/11/2022
After retiring from a career as a Latin Americanist, Hall documented the identities of thousands of people brought to Louisiana in slavery in the 18th century, an achievement others had thought neither possible nor necessary.
Source: NPR
9/12/2022
Vanderbilt's Moses Ochonu and Wisconsin's Mou Banerjee argue that the Queen's passing calls attention to unfinished business of acknowledging the violence of the British Empire—violence the Queen's image helped to conceal.
Source: National Security Archive
9/12/2022
It is beyond time for the Biden Administration to declassify presidential records related to American operations in Chile around the overthrow of democratically elected President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
Source: Boston Review
9/12/2022
by Philip Kitcher
The fierce debates over vaccines, masking, and other COVID mitigations have unsettled the security of "science" as a source of authoritative knowledge. A new book discusses the long debates about how scientific knowledge is produced, and how it becomes "The Science."
Source: AlterNet
9/10/2022
The British historian and host Ali Velshi butted heads over the mentioning of colonialism and its part in the late Queen's legacy.
Source: Texas Standard
9/6/2022
The battle between multiracial democracy and defensive white supremacy is out in the open much as it was after the Civil War and during the Civil Rights era; it's unclear which side will win, but the lines are drawn.
Source: NPR
9/6/2022
Stephen W. Stathis of the Congressional Research Service traces the partisan politics behind presidential term limits, from Ulysses Grant to the passage of the 22nd Amendment as Harry Truman sought to continue the New Deal program.
Source: KJZZ
9/6/2022
Katrina Parks examines the lives of women who came to work and build lives along the "Mother Road" of the west.
Source: National Interest
9/5/2022
In Mead's account, American Christians, with an affinity for viewing the Old Testament as part of the nation's heritage, not the machinations of modern Jewish organizations, brought American policy to support a Jewish state.
Source: The Guardian
9/5/2022
The naming of military facilties for Confederates was not a project of post-Civil War reconciliation; it was about valorizing and defending segregation in the 20th century, as with
Source: New York Review of Books
9/3/2022
The posthumous release of Nancy Dougherty's biography of the Nazi secret police chief emphasizes his bureaucratic cunning. Does it minimize his ideological commitment to Nazism, or the crimes he carried out?
Source: New York Review of Books
9/4/2022
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
While Davis was acquitted of murder charges in a highly politicized case 50 years ago, her influence on contemporary protest movements has never been higher.
Source: NPR
9/4/2022
Historians of color, including Kenneth Mack and Manisha Sinha, have argued that it shouldn't be necessary to look outside of the United States, or all the way back to the Civil War, to find examples of institutionalized racism, demagoguery, voter suppression, and political violence.
Source: The Atlantic
9/6/2022
by Kim Phillips-Fein
The seeds of today's hard right populism, nativism and conspiratorialism were present in the GOP for decades, argues historian Kim Phillips-Fein.
Source: The Nation
9/3/2022
by Glory Liu
Smith's work on political economy has long been seen in tension with his investigation of empathy and other moral sentiments. Paul Sagar's new book argues that scholars have mistaken Smith's intentions in order to falsely reconcile the market and morality.
Source: Foreign Affairs
9/5/2022
by Zachariah Mampilly
Both racism and anticommunism helped to minimize the impact of DuBois's thought on international relations, contributing to significant blind spots in the liberal international order.
Source: New York Review of Books
9/5/2022
by Eric Foner
Donald Yacovone is an inheritor of the legacy of WEB DuBois, slogging through the nation's history textbooks to identify the propaganda of white supremacy, says reviewer Eric Foner.
Source: The Atlantic
9/3/2022
Particularly for Americans, the period between 1870 and 2010 was a miracle of sustained and growing prosperity. But Brad DeLong also says that it's over.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/29/2022
Did James Sweet's essay unleash a storm of recrimination and anger? Sure. But maybe also useful scholarly self-reflection?
Source: Christian Science Monitor
9/1/2022
After a controversial battle over how to incorporate the descendants of people enslaved by James Madison, Montpelier is beginning to highlight artifacts—and the process of discovering them—related to the lives of enslaved people at the estate.
