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: Chicago Sun Times
7/30/2019
The finding by the Federal Highway Administration puts pressure on the Obama Foundation to find a way to “resolve adverse effects” and turns up the heat on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to order the foundation to make those changes.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
7/30/19
Nearly 16,000 pages of diaries, letters, speeches and other documents are available on the library’s crowdsourcing platform.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
7/29/19
by Brigit Katz
Most recently, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posing in front of the sign with guns.
Source: CNN
7/26/19
Interest in finding the Clotilda reignited in January 2018 after AL.com reporter Ben Raines discovered the remains of a ship near Mobile.
Source: The New York Times Magazine
7/31/2019
The Army didn’t want the flood of veterans returning home to become a disruptive presence or a financial burden on society.
Source: Pacific Standard
7/30/19
by David M. Perry
A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.
Source: The Atlantic
7/30/19
by Tim Naftali
In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.
Source: AP
7/29/19
Trump will join national and state leaders and dignitaries at Tuesday’s event, a commemorative session of the Virginia General Assembly at which Trump is to deliver remarks.
Source: Time
7/29/19
"The tweets said two things — that Baltimore was full of rodents, but also that no humans would want to live there. That’s untrue."
Source: NY Times
7/27/19
by Clay Risen
From Elizabeth Warren to Mike Pence, politicians want to claim America’s 26th president as their inspiration. They might want to reconsider.
Source: The Conversation
7/26/19
by Jordan Brasher and Derek H. Alderman
If the aim of statue removal is to build a more racially just South, then, as many analysts have pointed out, putting these monuments in storage is a lost opportunity.
Source: The North Star
7/30/19
Containing more than 4 million photographs, the collection will be distributed among a number of cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Getty Research Institute.
Source: The Conversation
7/30/19
by Rachel Caufield
While other countries set strict limits on the length of campaigns, American presidential races have become drawn-out, yearslong affairs. It wasn’t always this way.
8/4/19
by Jonathan Montano
Goodman's latest documentary, "Woodstock: Three Days That Changed a Generation," premieres on PBS August 6th.
Source: The Washington Post
July 29, 2019
Crowd was so eager to see Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, they threatened to trample others
Source: The Washington Post
July 27, 2019
Was veteran combat pilot David L. Mandt still aboard his Grumman Bearcat when it went down in the bay? Rescue crews found an oil slick and one of his gloves.
Source: The New York Review of Books
July 18, 2019
by Marilynne Robinson
A brief history of John Winthrop and the misconceptions of "A City on a Hill".
Source: The Washington Post
July 27, 2019
Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx were friendly and deeply connected.
Source: Forbes
7/28/2019
Richards changed history by going out on many limbs throughout her life and career.
Source: History Channel
July 24, 2019
19th century congressman went to work carrying pistols and bowie knives—and sometimes used them on colleagues.
