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: Forward
11/30/2021
"The stuff that hasn’t been public, or at least is tough to find, makes the book worthwhile."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/30/3021
Faculty in the College of Education contend that University of Florida administrators are holding up the establishment of a concentration for doctoral students in the study of race and ethnicity in education, due to political pressure.
Source: Tampa Bay Times
11/30/2021
Education Professor Chris Busey contends that he has been barred from stating his academic specialization, which is approved by his college, in his faculty profile. Is a political attack on critical race theory responsible?
Source: Forward
11/30/2021
The holiday's modern popularity as a Christmas analogue for assimiliated Jews is ironic; the Maccabees sought both to overthrow Greek rule in Judea and to end Hellenistic Judaism.
Source: American Historical Association
12/1/2021
This brief, based on decades of study and research by professional historians, aims to provide an accurate historical perspective as the Court considers the state of Mississippi’s challenge to a woman’s right to abortion, a right that was affirmed by the Court in Roe v. Wade.
Source: NPR
11/30/2021
"in 1963, Baker addressed the crowd at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. She wore her French Resistance uniform with the string of medals across her breast."
Source: Washington Post
11/29/2021
by James Robenalt
An improbable series of events brought Larry Hammond to clerk for Justice Lewis Powell, and to devise the principle that abortion should be legal before the viability of the fetus.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/29/2021
A member referendum in the United Auto Workers could make the union more amenable to direct democracy, and potentially make academic workers a major power bloc in the union.
Source: Gothamist
11/25/2021
"Just five years after the debut of the Scarlet and Black Project—a reference to the university’s colors as well as the African Americans directly impacted by the history—many Rutgers students are unaware of the work, or their school's history."
Source: Washington Post
11/26/2021
Virginia was at the center of the American slave trade, the Confederacy, and Jim Crow. It's not surprising that its colleges and universities are the site of intense debate about the legacies of racism.
Source: Irish Times
11/26/2021
"What is needed is not “official” history, but a decision to properly open sensitive archival material to facilitate the writing of evidence-based history. The political will to facilitate that is highly unlikely to materialise."
Source: The Atlantic
11/30/2021
William F. Buckley warned in 1951 that Yale professors were too heterodox. Today's academic culture warriors are worried that faculty are inculcating an orthodoxy other than their own, argues Virginia Heffernan.
Source: The Atlantic
11/30/2021
Judge Carlton Reeves rejected Mississippi's cynical argument, now before the Supreme Court, that its new abortion ban seeks to protect women and African Americans, calling the law a revival of the "old Mississippi" that sought above all to control them.
Source: The Atlantic
11/28/2021
by Graeme Wood
Too often, says Atlantic writer Graeme Wood, the rote ackowledgment by a speaker that an event is taking place on land historically occupied by an indigenous people is an empty gesture that short-circuits discussion of Native demands.
Source: New York Times
11/25/2021
“We’re kind of in trial and error,” said Ryan Doyle, a facilities manager at the Smithsonian. “It’s about managing water.”
Source: Washington Post
11/29/2021
Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced last year that the nation of 300,000 would become a republic by Tuesday, the 55th anniversary of its independence.
Source: The New Republic
11/26/2021
"The renaissance of the magazine provides the perfect capsule summary of the conservative movement’s long downward journey from pages to pixels."
Source: CNN
11/28/2021
Carrie Meek was the daughter of sharecroppers and the granddaughter of a slave; she was elected to Congress from Florida in 1992 as one of the first Black representatives since Reconstruction.
Source: New York Times
11/12/2021
Louisiana's Avery C. Alexander Act, named for a longtime state House member, calls for pardoning individuals who were convicted of violating laws establishing segregation or discrimination, but has seldom been invoked to do so.
Source: Diverse Education
11/12/2021
Brown University has released an updated and expanded version of its 2006 report on the university's involvement in the slave trade, which points to further work to be done by the university to contribute to reconciliation and justice.
