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: TIME
Nov 28, 2022
The strike is driven by the crises in both academic labor and housing costs, which make poverty wages for graduate student workers far less tolerable than they used to be. Historian James Vernon is one faculty member cancelling his classes in solidarity.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 28, 2022
Post Columnist Greg Sargent discusses Trump's meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes as a PR coup for the far right and an affirmation that they are part of Trump's base.
Source: MSNBC
Nov 28, 2022
"Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power."
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Nov 27, 2022
"Last Train to Auschwitz" looks at the railways as a means of escape for some, but also a tool of collaborators.
Source: Boston Review
Nov 21, 2022
The historian discusses the ongoing threat of the antidemocratic far right, despite the failure of the "red wave" in the midterms, abetted by the willingness of many Democrats to cave to panics about crime.
Source: Associated Press
Nov 21, 2022
Cooking large meals represented a breakthrough in human evolution, both because cooked foods proved easier to digest and support larger brains and because the occasions supported more complex social organization.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Nov 21, 2022
Texas Rangers orchestrated the killing of 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys in a Texas border town in 1918. Monica Muñoz Martinez describes this as part of a pattern of state-sanctioned racist violence in the state, which her organization Refusing to Forget is working to commemorate.
Source: New York Times
Nov 19, 2022
Building on the work of Kathleen Belew and others, the Times editorial board argues that recent episodes of racial terrorism are part of a global white nationalist movement.
Source: WBUR
Nov 17, 2022
Professor Charles Gallagher discusses the Christian Front, a local branch of followers of Father Charles Coughlin, that pushed a variety of antisemitic and nativist political positions in Boston between the World Wars.
Source: National Constitution Center
Nov 17, 2022
H.W. Brands, Lori Daggar and Lindsay Robertson join National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen to discuss new perspectives on the histories of conquest in the American west.
Source: Politico
Nov 17, 2022
Tech historian Margaret O'Mara says that the social platform keeps work-addicted (and sometimes gossipy) politicos connected all the time, making it both an emotional and instrumental necessity.
Source: Education Week
Nov 16, 2022
A Gilder Lehrman Center panel examined the potential and problems of trying to teach a comprehensive history of the nation in light of multiculturalism and the growing diversity of historical perspectives on slavery, emancipation and equality.
Source: The New Yorker
Nov 14, 2022
Beverly Gage's book explains the FBI director's longevity not to dark arts of blackmail and secret-keeping, but to a more straightforward and disturbing explanation: many Americans shared Hoover's reactionary views and liked how he cracked down on dissenters.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 14, 2022
John A.G. Davis, a professor of law, was killed by a masked member of a student mob engaged in firing pistols into the air to protest for the right to carry guns on campus.
Source: TIME
Nov 9, 2022
The violations of the bodies of the enslaved were part of the process of racist oppression; contemporary institutions exhibit practices that are not too much different.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 9, 2022
Henry Gerber's Society for Human Rights complicates the narrative of a gay rights struggle emerging publicly in the 1950s. If gay and lesbian Americans were organizing in the 1920s, what happened in the decades between? Jim Elledge's book seeks to explain that gap.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 8, 2022
"Folklore is by its nature not handed down by an authority. It is of the people, by the people—even if those people are children."
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 8, 2022
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Kerri Greenidge's new history of the Grimke family of South Carolina shows that, while sisters Sarah and Angelina left the south to advocate abolition and feminism, the institution of slavery compromised all white people connected to it.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Nov 8, 2022
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
David Marchick has headed the Partnership for Public Service's Center for Presidential Transition; he is the author of a new book that presents his practical knowledge of what is needed for the transfer of power to run smoothly between one administration and the next.
Source: New York Times
Nov 7, 2022
Education historians Jack Schneider and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explain why there's a significant overlap between parents, especially conservatives, who objected to pandemic school closures and those who are demanding more control over curriculum decisions.
