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: Foreign Policy
Apr 16, 2023
Philip Taubman's new biography portays Shultz as a key figure in pushing Reagan to move closer to Soviet leadership, albeit one who was content to work in the background.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 13, 2023
Isaac Chotiner interviews the law professor and digs deeper into his skepticism of the state charges against Donald Trump.
Source: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Apr 8, 2023
Congratulations to all the recipients of th 2023 awards and grants.
Source: Public Books
Apr 4, 2023
The automobile is an object made to symbolize freedom that actually physically embodies a host of coercive relationships to work, debt, surveillance and policing, and the basic right of free movement, according to the authors of a new study.
Source: New York Times
Apr 4, 2023
From surveillance to geopolitics, there are dangers alongside the benefits that ubiquitous semiconductor chips bring to contemporary life. Ezra Klein interviews Miller on his podcast to dig in.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 3, 2023
by Dara Horn
It's becoming clear that more lessons about the Holocaust won't address the problem of antisemitism in contemporary America, because it places both Jews and prejudice against them in another time and place.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 3, 2023
While Lesley Stahl responded that Democratic politicians aren't "pedophiles" or "groomers," historians Manisha Sinha and Brandy Schillace explain that the term has a longer and uglier history in campaigns to marginalize queer people and to use fears around sexual purity to justify oppression of outgroups.
Source: Mother Jones
Mar 31, 2023
The governor insists that book removals are a "hoax." Teachers in Florida, facing prosecution and loss of their livelihoods see it differently.
Source: NPR
Mar 31, 2023
NPR's A Martinez talks to presidential historian Douglas Brinkley about the historical significance of the indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
Mar 30, 2023
by Johann N. Neem
A new book argues that making higher education a public good is part of the solution to overcoming the growing split between degreed and undegreed Americans. But is it sufficient to overcome the political expediency of culture-war divisions?
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 30, 2023
What if the phallic objects of antiquity were less about ceremony or symbolism and had extremely... practical uses? Have Victorian attitudes toward sexuality suppressed discussion of ancient artifacts' use in sex?
Source: The Guardian
Mar 30, 2023
Although some had dismissed his warnings of an autocratic seizure of power as "doomerism," the events of January 6 and the Russian invasion have made the historian a widely-read public intellectual.
Source: The Nation
Mar 29, 2023
The historian discusses his new book on Christianity in America and the changes that have made the religious more conservative as the society became more secular.
Source: WNYC
Mar 29, 2023
Labor historian Erik Loomis discusses reducing the workweek with Melissa Harris-Perry.
Source: OutHistory
Mar 28, 2023
by Marc Stein
A project dedicating to identifying and cataloguing direct protest actions by LGBTQ advocates fills in significant gaps in our understanding of the geography, scope, targets, and demands of protests through the years.
Source: New York Review of Books
Mar 28, 2023
by Eric Foner
While the scope and horror of lynching has recently become acknowleged and memorialized, there is a parallel and more pervasive history, which Margaret Burhnam investigates, of racist terror carried out under color of law.
Source: London Review of Books
Mar 28, 2023
by Thomas Laqueur
Questions about how Americans practice genealogy are in some ways less interesting that questions about why they do; all genealogies are ways of constructing pasts that explain and justify the present, and in America they are impossible to disentangle from racism.
Source: Mother Jones
Mar 28, 2023
Technology historian John Mohr says that mandates for driver-monitoring tech could make it nearly impossible for an impaired driver to start and operate a car. The question is whether the auto industry will follow a historical pattern of resisting safety mandates or see them as a chance to innovate.
Source: Commonweal
Mar 28, 2023
The eminent political historian reviews books by Timothy Shenk, Michael Kazin, Julian Zelizer, Gary Gerstle, Jefferson Cowie and Sam Rosenfeld that place the current concern with polarization in decades- and centuries-long perspective.
Source: Boston Review
Mar 27, 2023
by Daniel Bessner
The idea that ordinary Americans should have a say in the nation's role in the world is dismissed out of hand by the foreign policy elite. But what if the problem isn't the complexity of world affairs, but the American elite's rejection of democracy?
