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
Dec 19, 2022
The compulsion to fit the past into a narrative about collective identity means that events like January 6 and the ugly truths about the scope and goals of the far right are likely to be consigned to the archives in a misguided attempt to "move on."
Source: National Geographic
Dec 19, 2022
It's unclear when medieval Germany's winter markets became affixed to nostalgic ideas of Christmas. But they've been adopted by ruling classes to offer prescriptive visions of class hierarchy, religion, and even Nazism.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Dec 18, 2022
"Till" shows that it is no longer possible for a movie about the civil rights era to put historical Black characters in the shadow of white protagonists.
Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Dec 16, 2022
Beginning in the 1970s, Koelsch was one of the first professors to teach about the gay liberation movement and incorporated the HIV-AIDS crisis into his courses on health and disease.
Source: New York Review of Books
Dec 16, 2022
by Sean Wilentz
Protests movements have latched on to a misguided interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment that argues it allowed and even encouraged the system of mass incarceration as an extension of slavery. A new global history extends that critique to the age of emancipation in general.
Source: EdWeek
Dec 15, 2022
Hoping both to fight media panics over "indoctrination" and guide policymakers and teachers toward better practices, the AHA will undertake a two-year project to investigate state curriculum decisions and classroom activities.
Source: The New Yorker
Dec 15, 2022
The historian of Nazism discusses the surprising arrest of German Reichsburger adherents for plotting a coup against the German parliament.
Source: The Baffler
Dec 14, 2022
by John Thomason
The mandate to fly the black banner over many government buildings across the nation reflects the organized power of a New Right faction that crafted a myth of soldiers left behind to air broader cultural grievances about militarism, masculinity, and a supposedly wayward nation.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Dec 14, 2022
Historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries talks about controversial statues: one removed in Richmond, and one uncovered in Philadelphia.
Source: TIME
Dec 13, 2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
From "Merry Christmas" to "classic" carols, much of what we consider "timeless" in fact has a traceable history.
Source: KCRW
Dec 13, 2022
Labor historian Lane Windham discusses the surge in pro-union activism among academics, journalists and other knowledge workers.
Source: W
Dec 13, 2022
Fashion historians Valerie Steele and Einav Rabinovitch-Fox explain the historic push and pull between designers and copycats, and how recent trends have blurred the lines between authenticity and fakeness and exclusivity and popular style.
Source: Minnesota Public Radio
Dec 13, 2022
What led Camilla Hall to join the radical Symbionese Liberation Army after a Lutheran upbringing in Minnesota?
Source: American Historical Association
Dec 13, 2022
It's not simple to gauge whether the desire to know about the past relates to wanting to solve community problems in the present.
Source: New York Times
Dec 12, 2022
by Jeff Shesol
Jefferson Cowie's new book traces the current resurgence of racist and antigovernment radicalism through the history of George Wallace's Alabama home county.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 12, 2022
Moments of creative innovation matter, but invention depends on a society that is prepared to take advantage and distribute the benefits.
Source: Yahoo
Dec 10, 2022
A historian and two recently-elected progressive city council members teamed up to tour the sites of the city's community of Mexican revolutionaries in exile, asking how the past can inform social movements today.
Source: The New Republic
Dec 9, 2022
by Michael Kazin
The signal contribution of Gage's book is not to examine Hoover's ideology or the details of his personal life, but to show how the FBI director built power and broad support, among even liberal Americans, for intrusive surveillance and repression of activists.
Source: History.com
Dec 9, 2022
American women in particular found it challenging to uphold holiday traditions when mobilization, war work, rationing, and the lingering Great Depression hung over the season.
Source: The New Republic
Dec 8, 2022
The system, which approximates a real estate investment firm that also confers degrees, is squeezing its graduate students both as their wage-payer and as a large-scale landlord that contributes to a housing market that is unaffordable to graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers.
