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: The Guardian
3/13/2023
Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott saw their home appraisal increase by a quarter million after they removed visual evidence that their family, which is Black, occupied the residence.
Source: New York Times
3/16/2023
The conservative Florida Citizens Alliance, a group allied with the DeSantis administration, has called for rejection of 28 of the 38 texts its members reviewed. One publisher's editing of the story of the Montgomery Boycott illustrates their power.
Source: New York Times
3/14/2023
Legal historians Saul Cornell, Jennifer Tucker and others are in high demand as a legal consultant after the Bruen decision elevated the historical meaning of gun laws to importance in the judicial process.
Source: CSPAN
3/7/2023
Historian Matthew Connelly offers a series of talks and lesson plans for social studies teachers about the origins and significance of government secrecy, classified information, and freedom of information.
Source: The New Yorker
3/10/2023
A study of the books flagged for restriction in Duval County, Florida in the last two years suggests that a particular political vision is driving the bans, focusing on LGBTQ themes and racial and religious diversity. But a fear of adolescents' developing autonomy also seems to be in play.
Source: New York Times
3/10/2023
Natalia Petrzela's work as a historian goes far outside the classroom and the library, into the practice of the fitness culture she researches, social media, podcasting, and the politics of intellectual property on streaming services.
Source: Atlas Obscura
3/9/2023
Rebecca Hall, author of a new graphic history, says women warriors and rebels have been portrayed as exceptions proving the rule instead of as freedom fighters.
Source: The Atlantic
3/10/2023
by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
A new collection of essays argues that Shakespeare's works helped Renaissance Europeans to invent the category of "whiteness," and for later generations to refine and contest its meaning.
Source: Past/Present Podcast
3/14/2023
Three historians discuss the legacy of the disability rights activist.
Source: Dissent
3/12/2023
by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
Praised by the right and loathed by the left, Whittaker Chambers entered the public eye when he accused State Department worker Alger Hiss of being a Communist. But his story before and after reveals much more about the political history of midcentury America.
Source: New York Times
3/7/2023
Stanley Lovell, believed to the the inspiration for "Q" in the James Bond stories, was the mastermind of the most outrageous efforts at psychological warfare and deception for the precursor agency to the CIA – including painting foxes with radium to resemble kitsune, shinto harbingers of doom.
Source: WHYY
3/3/2023
Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Dolly Chugh have an interdisciplinary discussion of why difficult and conflictual elements of history must be taught, and how to enable students and teachers to do it productively.
Source: The New Yorker
3/6/2023
An exhibition of the radical group's posters illustrates the importance-and difficulty-of documenting political movements that used visual communications through ephemeral media like postering and newspapers.
Source: New York Times
3/8/2023
by Thomas Edsall
Columnist Thomas Edsall checked in with historian Amna Akbar, a DEI critic, about Florida's education legislation. Akbar isn't a fan, though may conservative think-tank fellows interviewed are.
Source: New York Times
3/8/2023
A biography of J. Edgar Hoover, a border-crossing history of revolutionary Mexico, and a study of social hierarchies in 1790s New York City took home the prestigious honor this year.
Source: New York Times
3/8/2023
Historian Marvin Dunn's "Teach the Truth" tours show that Florida's history can't be taught without acknowledging white racism and terrorism.
Source: The Guardian
3/8/2023
An open letter by Black Studies scholars and activists asks why a right-wing political faction has been empowered to hijack the curriculum in Florida and at the College Board, concluding that, far from being "drained of meaning," purged concepts are threatening to entrenched power.
Source: Washington Post
3/8/2023
The revelation that Fox hosts promoted what they knew were lies about the 2020 election reflects what Nicole Hemmer calls a 70-year effort by the right to sow distrust in mainstream media.
Source: The Atlantic
3/8/2023
The writer argues that historians are feeding a view of static, unchanging oppression that borders on the metaphysical and defeats the discipline's purpose of evaluating change over time and the political imperative to imagine alternatives to the present.
Source: Washington Post
3/5/2023
by E.J. Dionne
Do efforts to write marginalized figures into the national narrative "mean that history has been “politicized”? The answer is 'yes' only in the sense that political change always affects how we see history," says the Washington Post columnist.
