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: NY Times
10/24/19
The removal of the dictator’s remains from a basilica near Madrid, weeks before a national election in Spain, was denounced by some for stirring painful memories.
Source: Time
10/24/19
For the 90th anniversary of Black Thursday, TIME spoke to financial historian Richard Sylla, a Professor Emeritus of Economics and the former Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at New York University Stern School of Business and Chairman of the board of the Museum of American Finance in New York City.
Source: The Conversation
10/23/19
by Bridget Marshall
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.
October 24, 2019
Writing and reporting history still requires documenting the trail of reason to the conclusions.
Source: The Conversation
10/22/19
by Christopher R. Moore
What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?
Source: Time
10/18/19
by James Stavridis
Sailors often have a unique opportunity to chart a course toward a good character.
Source: Quartz
10/23/19
Activists and experts in the field sometimes call this gender gap in statues a marble or bronze ceiling.
Source: USA Today
10/17/19
The articles explore the different ways the legacy of slavery has shaped America.
Source: CNN
10/17/19
How does a Smithsonian museum get established? The process involves a lot of time and a lot of legislation.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
10/16/19
General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract deal Wednesday.
Source: Politifact
10/16/19
Andrew Yang says giving adult $1,000 a month is a "deeply American idea" dating back centuries.
Source: Hyperallergic
10/16/19
The Museum of the Bible, founded by the owners of arts-and-crafts store chain Hobby Lobby, will turn over biblical fragments it had acquired from an Oxford professor.
Source: Washington Post
10/17/19
by Gillian Brockell
The Maryland congressman, who died Thursday, had a scar on his face for the rest of his life.
Source: Vox
10/14/19
The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man.”
Source: Yahoo! News
10/11/19
It has been a constant theme in the history of the Kurds, an ethnic group indigenous to parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
Source: Time
10/8/19
Regardless of how the justices rule in the cases, the court’s decisions would not be the first time that the Supreme Court made major decisions impacting LGBTQ people’s civil rights in the United States.
Source: Washington Post
10/15/19
No, not Trump. Teddy Roosevelt.
Source: Washington Post
10/14/19
This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.
Source: Time
10/10/19
by Olivia Waxman
While an incumbent President has never lost a primary nomination in modern U.S. history, these five challengers put up a serious fight.
Source: NY Times
10/10/19
The last time the United States abandoned allies in the Middle East, military officials say, it helped lead to the Iraq war.
