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: Michigan Radio
Mar 23, 2020
Markel and his cohorts designed a study of the 1918-19 flu pandemic to compare cities that did flatten the curve--with those that didn't.
Source: Jewish News
Mar 22, 2020
Director of the Lidice memorial, Martina Lehmannová, was let go amid accusations that the government is trying to whitewash inconvenient facts to suit its preferred narrative.
Source: The New York Times
Mar 21, 2020
A nation ravaged by the Spanish flu figured out how to vote back then. Not without incident, but with democracy intact.
Source: Ohio State News
Mar 21, 2020
The alt-right take on the book, in a nutshell: The fact that some white Christians were once held as slaves by black Muslims essentially excuses slavery in America.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 21, 2020
Tuberculosis sanatoriums offered patients fresh air, entertainment, and socialization—for those who could afford them.
Source: Daily Beast
Mar 20, 2020
Historian Scott Knowles said the response in the U.S.—where both the president and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have advised the entire country against participating in large gatherings—is essentially unprecedented.
Source: History.com
Mar 19, 2020
Proponents hadn’t counted on a conservative grassroots movement led by activist and lawyer Phyllis Schlafly.
Source: The New Republic
Mar 19, 2020
The ancient roots of communal liberty.
Source: Milwaukee Magazine
Mar 18, 2020
“Historical institutions commit to opening their doors and taking in documents and records that might help preserve the community’s memory for future generations.”, says historian Christopher D. Cantwell.
Source: New York Times
Mar 18, 2020
The scholars Joseph P. Reidy and Lizabeth Cohen have won the prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 18, 2020
Be thankful we no longer use corn cobs and rope ends.
Source: New York Times
Mar 17, 2020
A researcher stopped working for a German museum after she says she lost faith in its commitment to return works with tainted provenances.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 17, 2020
by Gillian Brockell
Most of the thousand New Yorkers who got typhoid each year were poor people with bad water supplies. The few dozen people that Mallon “attacked” were rich.
Source: NPR Codeswitch
Mar 17, 2020
The introduction of the term opened the floodgates for a debate about class, womanhood, and Puerto Rico's long history of reggaeton production.
Source: Vox
Mar 17, 2020
by Constance Grady
Hand-washing as a social responsibility is a fairly new concept.
Source: New York Times
Mar 17, 2020
by Peter Sagal
Like a good crossword, her book challenges us to back away from our assumptions, allows us to think differently and apply ourselves again.
Source: History.com
Mar 17, 2020
Here’s how five of the world’s worst pandemics finally ended.
Source: Salon
Mar 17, 2020
A Truth and Reconciliation commission would be a necessary first step in documenting the Trump regime's crimes and assaults on truth, reality and America's collective memory.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Mar 17, 2020
“He was committed to this idea of democratization of knowledge, and making it accessible to as many people as possible, not confining oneself to just teaching a course at a university.”
Source: New York Times
Mar 16, 2020
Border Patrol agents once ordered an elderly Hispanic man out of his vehicle and requested his identity papers, which showed that he was a Mexican-born immigrant named Raúl H. Castro. Turns out he was Arizona’s former governor.
