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: Washington Monthly
Sep 1, 2020
A new biography of the acclaimed director focuses on his thematic obsession with rebellion and how it suceeds or fails.
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 1, 2020
The story of the effort by Portsmouth, Virginia police to prosecute a local state legislator for conspiring to "injure" Confederate monuments continues to develop.
Sep 1, 2020
A group of historians has launched a new group dedicated to making sure that college students are able to exercise their right to vote.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 1, 2020
Two podcasts address controversial aspects of racial integration in schooling, looking at contemporary New York and Boston in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Source: New York Times
Aug 31, 2020
The stalled career of a distinguished Black Marine officer raises questions about how completely the Corps has embraced racial integration and equality in its leadership.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Aug 31, 2020
Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon are introducing legislation for a revived version of the New Deal-Era Civilian Conservation Corps, seeking to create jobs in forestry, parks, and land conservation.
Source: Associated Press
Aug 31, 2020
The National Security Archive has publicized documents from the George W. Bush administration which show the US government was well aware of ties between Colombian president Alvaro Uribe and right-wing paramilitary groups that the US had identified as terrorist groups.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 30, 2020
The Atlantic presents photographs from this weekend's March on Washington.
Source: New York Times
Aug 30, 2020
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writes that Trump is just the latest in a long line of American politicians who have stoked racist fears for advantage.
Source: New York Times
Aug 29, 2020
The uncensored memoir makes the claim that torture interrupted and undermined effective interrogations by other means.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 29, 2020
The passage of a "Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights" in Maryland set the tone for other state laws insulating police officers from meaningful oversight.
Source: New York Times
Aug 27, 2020
The artist Jacob Lawrence died in 2000; he spent a day in New York museums with Times art critic Michael Kimmelman four years before, discussing art and his creative process.
Source: New York Times
Aug 27, 2020
Finally reopening after a COVID-enforced hiatus, the British Museum is making concessions to an audience that is more skeptical of the museum's relationship to colonialism and the slave trade.
Source: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Aug 27, 2020
The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Aug 27, 2020
The extensive labor required to develop new online courses or shift existing ones to a virtual or mixed delivery is not always obvious to higher ed critics.
Source: Vox
Aug 27, 2020
Both George W. Bush and Donald Trump represent a Republican Party soaked in contempt for, and mistrust of, the federal government. When you don’t respect, or even like, the institution you lead, you lead it poorly. When that institution is incredibly, globally important — as the US government is — leading it poorly can invite global catastrophe.
Source: Axios
Aug 27, 2020
Neither campaign can control the events — or root causes — driving America’s summer of unrest. But they both want to control the narrative.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 27, 2020
Speakers at the Republican National Convention had a loose relationship with historical facts.
Source: CNN
Aug 27, 2020
Political scientist Andra Gillespie describes how the party power shifted in this country.
Source: Huffington Post
Aug 27, 2020
Lincoln may have once shared the sentiment, just not the actual words.
