History in the News
2020-21
- Michael Allen is cited in this NBC story: Sept. 11 united America. Twenty years later, the nation stands divided. (nbcnews.com)
- Kate Masur and Daniel Immerwahr have each headlined the New York Times Sunday review sections in (respectively) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/opinion/juneteenth-civil-rights.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/us-politics-edward-bellamy.html
- Kate Masur's Until Justice Be Done (2021) is the subject of a symposium: https://balkin.blogspot.com/2021/05/balkinization-symposium-on-kate-masur.html
- Ji-Yeon Yuh is honored in this Daily Northwestern tribute: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/04/08/opinion/huang-an-ode-to-professor-yuh/
- Kate Masur's op-ed in the LA Times appeared earlier this month: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-06/civil-rights-1866-act-black-laws-northern-states. Her book, Until Justice Be Done, just had its second (and again really enthusiastic) review in The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/books/review/kate-masur-until-justice-be-done.html. And a marvelous review in the Washington Post -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/americas-forgotten-civil-rights-movement/2021/04/22/afeda110-8f16-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html
- Jonathon Glassman's article, "Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa: Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony," is out in Comparative Studies in Society and History.
- Kate Masur's March 2021 book, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, garnered NYT and WSJ reviews—https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/books/review-until-justice-be-done-kate-masur.html and https://www.wsj.com/articles/until-justice-be-done-review-free-but-not-free-11616359082
- Dyan Elliott's new book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy (2020), was reviewed in the National Catholic Reporter as "nothing short of remarkable, stunning and most importantly, authentic." New book examines clergy sexual abuse — in the wide lens of history | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org).
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