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: New York Times
6/17/2019
Professor Hill spoke with Jessica Bennett, gender editor at The New York Times and called for a greater recognition of gender-based violence in the political sphere, and stronger leadership on the issue.
Source: The American Historian
06/17/2019
by Wilma King
June Nineteenth is widely celebrated for the abolition of slavery in Texas and the Confederate States in general.
Source: CNN
6/17/2019
The growth of women's soccer is a microcosm of the fight for gender equality.
Source: The American Historical Review
6/4/19
by Thomas Meaney
Based on an encounter with Fanon’s CIA handler, C. Oliver Iselin, Meaney presents the firsthand experience of a mid-level figure in the U.S. security state who participated in the national liberation movements in Africa.
Source: The Conversation
6/12/2019
by Stephen Groening
The techniques and technologies described in the novel are very much present in today’s world.
Source: Washington Post
6/12/2019
Trump is just the latest president to try to shield White House documents and discussions from Congress
Source: Lancaster Online
6/10/2019
The flag represents the 127th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops and is being sold by the Grand Army of the Republic Museum in Philadelphia to bolster the museum’s finances.
Source: Smithsonian
6/12/2019
by Sam Wineburg
The first president wanted to unite citizens of all religions without alienating Catholics, freethinkers and Jews.
Source: AP
6/10/2019
People are more likely to engage with history if other actual people — not facts or data or even anecdotes — can act as guides and say, even in subjectivity-saturated ways: This is what it felt like.
Source: AP
6/11/2019
While the library has also faced criticism from residents over the traffic it will bring and people it will displace, Tuesday’s decision was largely celebrated by neighborhood organizations and business groups.
Source: CBS News
6/11/2019
As Anne Frank's 90th birthday approaches, historian Edna Friedberg said it's important to remember the sacrifices Otto Frank and others made to keep her legacy alive.
Source: Washington Post
6/12/2019
In recent months, migrant children have been housed in tents; it is unclear what their accommodations will be like at Fort Sill.
Source: The Atlantic
6/12/2019
by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Starting in the 1850s, proponents of the movement for women’s rights traded their long dresses for bloomers—and paid a heavy social price for it.
Source: History.com
June 11, 2019
During Prohibition, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Source: Think Progress
6/10/19
Sen. Josh Hawley says not to compare Trump's behavior to Nixon's because Watergate was more than 40 years ago.
Source: TPM
6/7/19
They may represent a minority position, but the sentiment shows just how far the Myth of the Lost Cause, a systematic effort to rehabilitate the racist legacy of the Confederacy, has spread.
Source: NY Times
6/6/19
The commissioner, James O’Neill, said he was sorry on behalf of the New York Police Department for officers’ actions during a seminal 1969 clash outside a gay bar.
Source: The New Yorker
6/10/19
“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.
Source: Perspectives on History
6/10/19
by Jennifer M. Miller
Today's deep apprehension about the consequences of misinformation and foreign subversion can make it easy to forget that such fears are not new.
Source: NPR
6/10/19
Dean was a key Watergate insider – and whistle blower – due to his special role as White House counsel.
