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
6/16/2020
From Virginia to New Mexico, protests over police brutality have brought hundreds of years of American history bubbling to the surface.
Source: Levine Museum of the New South
6/17/2020
Karen L. Cox and Adam Domby join the Museum of the New South to discuss Confederate memorials.
Source: The New York Times
6/16/2020
Historian Richard Pierce: “Blacks can’t continue to wait around to find an acceptable form of protest that will generate 100 percent approval on the other side, because that doesn’t exist.”
Source: USA Today
6/6/2020
"Nothing has ever hit me harder than the image of George Floyd. When I saw that image, it brought me back to when I first saw the photograph of Emmett Till at the age of 10," says documentary filmmaker Keith Beauchamp.
Source: Book Riot
6/16/2020
A selection of historical works examine the lives of queer women, the relationship of queer and racial identities, and the establishment of heterosexuality as a social norm.
Source: History
6/16/2020
Henry Hemming writes that British intelligence services planted made-up episodes of heroic military raids on Nazi-occupied Europe and fabricated Nazi plans to invade South America to try to overcome prevailing isolationist sentiments among Americans.
Source: Associated Press
6/14/2020
“This is not the first time New York has been challenged. It won’t be the last,” says historian Kenneth T. Jackson.
Source: KXAN
6/15/2020
UT Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies Edmund T. Gordon explains how the university's spirit song is tied to Robert E. Lee.
Source: The Independent
6/14/2020
Rutger Bregman's new book makes a sweeping argument that the "veneer" theory--that civilization barely suppreses humanity's instinct for violence and selfishness--is wrong.
Source: The New York Times
6/14/2020
LGBTQ historian George Chauncey reviews Eric Cervini's biography of scientist Franklin Kameny, "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America."
Source: The New York Times
6/10/2020
Marc Restellini, an art historian, is fighting the Wildenstein Plattner Institute over the ownership of a research archive he spent decades compiling.
Source: The New York Times
6/13/2020
A platform of "law and order" no longer functions when there is no "silent majority" to receive it.
Source: NPR
6/13/2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Keisha Blain about the history of policing in the United States.
Source: The Atlantic
6/16/2020
The New Deal, per historian Eric Rauchway, illustrates the relationship between the American economy and American democracy.
Source: Public Books
6/15/2020
An interview with historian Geraldo Cadava, a scholar of Latinx history, borderlands, and immigration.
Source: Boston Review
6/11/2020
"As protests work to remake the world, the reissue of Vivian Gornick’s The Romance of American Communism invites a new generation to reflect on what it means to live a life of political commitment—where the passionate pursuit of justice meets organized political action," writes Alan Wald, a reviewer of classic work of left political activism.
Source: The New York Times
6/14/2020
Historians Kellie Carter Jackson and Karen L. Cox discuss the film's effect on audiences then and now.
Source: MSNBC
6/14/2020
American historian Daina Ramey Berry sits down with MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez to discuss the history of Tulsa’s 'Black Wall Street', and why so many black Americans were offended by the suggestion that President Trump would hold a campaign rally in that city on Juneteenth.
Source: New York Times
6/12/2020
by Douglas Brinkley
Historian Douglas Brinkley and the Nobel laureate Bob Dylan discuss the COVID pandemic, the effects of electronic media, and American history in music in a wide-ranging interview.
Source: WBUR
6/11/2020
Professor of Africana Studies Kellie Carter Jackson speaks with WBUR on the relationship between violence and protest; a relationship which goes back to the Boston Massacre.
