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: Academic Freedom Alliance
Oct 5, 2022
Two scholars at work on a project to examine how anti-CRT legislation is affecting academic freedom on the ground explain the context and stakes of their project.
Source: WABE
Oct 5, 2022
The historian traces a long history of racial violence that fed the January 6 insurrection in the new documentary "I, Too." This Q&A followed the film's premier at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Source: Mother Jones
Oct 5, 2022
Historian David S. McCarthy puts a new CIA-sponsored podcast in the context of decades-long efforts by the Agency to portray itself as the good guys in a dangerous world while obscuring their role in creating the danger.
Source: The New Yorker
Oct 5, 2022
by Geraldo Cadava
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez's new book examines the cross-border politics of the Mexican revolution and the role of elites on both sides in squelching a radical movement challenging elite rule in Mexico.
Source: New York Times
Oct 5, 2022
For Black Americans, everything about the second world war looked different, including the start date, which the Black press dated to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. A new book centers the issue of global racism in a narrative of the conflict.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Oct 5, 2022
by Colleen Flaherty
All five members of the center's executive committee have resigned in support of Prof. Limerick. She has argued that her dismissal will make other scholars reluctant to commit to public engagement outside the university wall.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 4, 2022
by Ned Blackhawk
The new book shows the complexity of territorial conflict between settler and indigenous groups, but by ending in 1890, it punts on the task of explaining how the conflict ended resoundingly in favor of the settlers and their ideas of territory, law and power.
Source: The Baffler
Oct 4, 2022
Books by Michael Kazin and Lily Geismer trace the rise and fall of the Democratic Party's reign as a party of big ideas and big initiatives.
Source: Black Perspectives
Oct 4, 2022
by Danielle L. McGuire
Keisha Blain's book offers a broader portrait of Hamer as a visionary activist who understood the interconnected issues of sex, class and power that affected the Black freedom movement.
Source: New York Times
Oct 4, 2022
"What does the act of memorializing, who is remembered and who is left out, tell us about how people lived, what they valued, and the way we live now?"
Source: Civil Eats
Oct 4, 2022
Julia Skinner says that the tradition of fermenting and preserving connects us to the ways earlier humans managed seasonal growing and avoided waste.
Source: The Nation
Oct 3, 2022
Emancipation wasn't just an idea, it was a literal place, described in a new book as the route around the periphery of the South traced by Black Americans in pursuit of work, business, and family reunification.
Source: Colorado Sun
Oct 3, 2022
A report alleged that the professor misused the time and work of center staff for personal projects; it remains unclear if the report was the reason for her removal from an academic center she founded.
Source: Kansas City Star
Oct 2, 2022
Historian Sarah Horowitz found the tale of Marguerite Steinheil too juicy to confine to an academic book, though the scandal shows how women navigated sex and inequality at the end of the nineteenth century.
Source: Humanities
Oct 1, 2022
The new NEH chair discusses her family history in Arizona, the maintenance of Navajo language and culture, and the future of the humanities.
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 1, 2022
The establishment of corn as the center of indigenous American agriculture was slow; researchers are considering how other crops could have come to dominate the American food system.
Sep 29, 2022
In the words of juror Martha S. Jones, "These eight works embody bravery – in their choice of subject matter, archival ambition and interpretive boldness."
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Sep 29, 2022
“We should not be creating a system in which guest workers are exploited and exploitable, and we're basically justifying it by saying, well, they're feeding their families.”
Source: The Guardian
Sep 29, 2022
Using painstaking archaeological methods, Reynolds laid a new foundation for understanding how Rome related to its eastern provinces.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 29, 2022
Fossil fuel profit "secures favorable white papers, journals, societies, public-policy comments, courtroom testimony, and front groups that attack what the industry sees as damaging science," copying the 1950s playbook of the tobacco industry with more money and higher stakes.
