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: The Root
June 5, 2017
The battle against Confederate symbols and memorials was brought to the forefront of national conversation almost exactly two years ago when white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black parishioners and injured several others in a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.
Source: NPR
June 4, 2017
This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War. Michel Martin speaks with Jane Eisner, editor of The Forward, about Israelis' feelings toward marking the event.
Source: Newsweek
May 28, 2017
The book is by Antonio Veciana, the CIA’s man in Havana.
Source: National Security Archive
June 2, 2017
It's history worth remembering as we head into a new clash between Congress and the presidency.
Source: Time Magazine
May 31, 2017
"Game of Thrones does dramatize nicely some fundamental things going on in medieval courts.”
Source: The Boston Globe
June 3, 2017
Among the statues some are raising questions about is one for Columbus. Another is one honoring historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Source: Arutz Sheva
June 3, 2017
Estonian politician running for election promises to 'decriminalize' Holocaust denial and 'correct' education on Third Reich history.
Source: USA Today
June 2, 2017
A section of rope was found near the MLK Memorial in Washington on Friday, two days after a noose was discovered inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
June 2, 2017
The book offers a mostly pictorial walk though the secrets, struggles and triumphs of Utah's gay community, from the anti-gay territorial laws that put men in prison in the late 1800s to the city's first gay bars, early gay pride celebrations and the legalization of gay marriage.
Source: Reuters
June 2, 2017
For generations, young Americans could go all the way through high school without learning that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have long been part of their country's history.
Source: Time Magazine
June 2, 2017
Muhammad Ali's public conversion to Islam, in 1964, was among the most defining moments of his remarkable life.
Source: The Guardian
June 1, 2017
Nearly two centuries of exclusion, violence and intimidation have resulted in the whitest major city in the United States, in a state that has in the past been fertile ground for the growth of extremism.
Source: NYT
June 3, 2017
“It’s the last secret of the 1967 war.”
Source: The Boston Globe
June 2, 2017
Fifty years ago today, 3 days of riots convulsed Roxbury, as the civil rights tumult of the ‘60s finally reached here. It was the violent beginning to an era of change whose end is still not in sight...
Source: Places Journal
June 2, 2017 (accessed)
It’s considered a preservation crisis.
Source: The Harvard Gazette
May 30, 2017
The authors found that widespread environmental pollution did not begin with the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s and 1800s.
Source: NYT
June 1, 2017
Back channels during presidential transitions are not unprecedented, but they are always fraught, as President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have discovered in recent weeks.
Source: U.S. News & World Report
May 31, 2017
A noose, a symbol of racial lynching, was found on Wednesday on the floor of an exhibit about segregation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution officials said.
Source: National Security Archive
June 1, 2017
Carter faced pushback from South Korean leaders and his own top advisors.
Source: Al-Fanar Media
May 26, 2017
A campaign to restore the holdings of the library of the University of Mosul has received an enthusiastic response since it began three months ago.
