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: NYT
March 14, 2018
As other cities tear down Confederate monuments, the Tennessee capital wants to preserve land for a city park near Fort Negley, which thousands of former slaves built.
Source: NYT
March 13, 2018
The 120-year-old magazine invited a history professor to critique its past coverage of race, and showed little defensiveness in accepting his findings.
Source: The Washington Post
March 13, 2018
The CIA from its earliest days has acknowledged the gender inequities and has attempted to remedy them.
Source: The Washington Post
March 10, 2018
Meet May Irwin, the Stormy Daniels of the Victorian era. And her pornographer, Thomas Edison.
Source: Education Dive
March 7, 2018
Women’s history is not well-represented in U.S. state history standards, and the gap is likely appearing in classroom lessons, too.
Source: Roll Call
March 13, 2018
Most were terminated outright; others left before the White House officially acted.
Source: The Washington Post
March 13, 2018
The facts are otherwise. Obama appointed more women.
Source: CBS News
March 11, 2018
Lyndon Johnson had the power of incumbency, but his prospects fell when an upstart, Eugene McCarthy, decided to challenge him in the primaries.
Source: The Daily Beast
March 9, 2018
An elementary school finally painted over an outside mural showing a Rebel flag and a scene suggesting a lynching. Was Crossville’s alleged past as a ‘sundown town’ to blame?
Source: The Toledo Blade
March 11, 2018
How Michigan State is compiling the global slave trade's paper trail
Source: Time Magazine
March 8, 2018
Here’s what he left out.
Source: Live Science
March 8, 2018
Archaeologists in Rome have discovered the remains of a sprawling residence of a Roman military commander dating back 1,900 years and holding several rooms covered in ornate mosaic floors with geometric patterns, along with pools and fountains.
Source: NYT
March 10, 2018
The attacks were part of a wave of vandalism that has unleashed accusations and recriminations and sent political tensions boiling over as, one by one, at least six monuments have been vandalized.
Source: The Times-Picayune
March 11, 2018
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday evening (March 11), during which he described the four Confederate monuments he removed as "a lie," and discussed how they had been erected as an attempt to redefine history.
Source: NYT
March 10, 2018
Trump will not be the first modern-day American president to come face-to-face with the leader of an adversary, and those encounters have a mixed record.
Source: NYT
March 11, 2018
Sawsan Chebli, a Berlin state legislator with Palestinian heritage, recently came up with an idea that is radical even by the standards of a country that has dissected the horrors of its past like no other: make visits to Nazi concentration camps mandatory — for everyone.
Source: CNN
3/9/18
When World War II ended, no industry was stronger or more important than American steel. Then came modernization.
Source: NYT
March 8, 2018
Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. Now, we’re adding the stories of 15 remarkable women.
Source: Time Magazine
March 8, 2018
Trump is also facing a lawsuit from former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos for defamation, and he’s been sued more than 100 times in federal court, on issues ranging from his actions on immigration to the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.
Source: NYT
March 7, 2018
by Ruchir Sharma
The alarmists are getting a bit ahead of the story. Periods of deglobalization tend to be slow processes, not sudden events.
