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: World Socialist Website
4/25/2022
Have influential historians of Eastern European nationalism and antisemitism softened their assessment of Ukrainian nationalism because of the Russian invasion?
Source: Democracy Now!
4/21/2022
Denis Pilash contends that the brutality of some actions against Ukraine compares to US-supported massacres by the Indonesian government in East Timor.
Source: Atlas Obscura
4/22/2022
Women have always tried to share information enabling them to control their reproductive health, and others have always tried to stop them. Secrecy, coded language and misdirection are historical puzzles to untangle, say Andrea Tone, Naomi Rendina, Lauren Thompson and Donna Drucker.
Source: Washington Post
4/22/2022
by Douglas Brinkley
A reviewer is intrigued by a new book's argument that memory and understanding of the past is shaped, for better and worse, by storytellers, artists, and filmmakers, who help determine which bits of the past stick in our consciousness.
Source: TIME
4/22/2022
Neil Price describes the work of being a historical consultant on the new Icelandic epic, including the story's common roots with "Hamlet" and the realities of Viking combat.
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
4/21/2022
"TCU formed the Race and Reconciliation Initiative in August in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, which prompted TCU and many other universities to research their history with slavery."
Source: NPR
4/22/2022
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sergey Radchenko, a Russian history professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, on what's behind Putin's shift in the focus in the war on Ukraine.
Source: Washington Post
4/19/2022
Derek Gray examined the growth of the capital city's NAACP chapter, the first in the nation to have Black leadership, and one with the unique responsibility to monitor legislation in Congress affecting civil rights and racial justice.
Source: Smithsonian
4/19/2022
by Karin Wulf
Karin Wulf interviews Kathryn Olivarius about her new book on the social and racial factors that prolonged a contagious epidemic that may have killed as many as 150,000 people in New Orleans between 1803 and 1861.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
4/21/2022
Algona's book traces the history of land use decisions that inadvertently allowed species, particularly the coyote, to spread across the United States even as the nation became more urbanized.
Source: LitHub
4/20/2022
"I wrote my newest novel Take My Hand because I believed there were too many people who did not know about the history of forced sterilizations among poor women of color."
Source: Substack
4/20/2022
"There’s widespread politically useful misinformation about the war. And there’s also widespread liberal apologetics for the war."
Source: The Nation
4/20/2022
"I wanted to challenge the common view that the story of US politics after 1968 is solely about the rise of the right, and that the Democrats adopted the policies that they did as a way of playing electoral defense."
Source: The Bulwark
4/20/2022
by Mona Charen
Tucker Carlson's recent examination of testicular tanning as a boost to manliness shows the need for societies to support pathways to male expression that don't lead to violence or painful sunburns.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/12/2022
A college campus can be a spectacular stage set, but it's ultimately people – professors, students, and administrators – who make the campus a dramatic space reflecting and influencing the wider society.
Source: Florida Today
4/17/2022
Michael Butler, author of two books on the civil rights struggle in Florida, told an audience that the controversy was being stoked to prevent constructive public debate by folding all historical discussion of racism into a "frightening, dangerous, scary" term.
Source: CNN
4/19/2022
Although two thirds of Americans favor some abortion rights, legal historian Mary Ziegler says the new composition of the Supreme Court means state legislatures will boldly pursue what they really want: totally outlawing abortion.
Source: The Atlantic
4/19/2022
Historians Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, Kate Clifford-Larse and Keenaga-Yamahtta Taylor are among the authors whose books dig beneath the surface of famous leaders to describe how social movements built the strength to change laws, institutions and ideas.
Source: Washington Post
4/15/2022
Calvin Coolidge's Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon briefly accepted public disclosure of tax bills in exchange for a lower top rate. The fact that the ultra-rich, like him, were shown to pay lower effective rates, ended the practice.
Source: KOIN 6
4/16/2022
The historian gave a minute-long background briefing on what's really driving fears of crime and what should be done.
