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: AL.com
Aug 5, 2020
Both the Madison County Commission, which has jurisdiction over the statue, and the Huntsville City Council have passed resolutions calling for the statue to be moved to the city-owned Maple Hill Cemetery.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 4, 2020
For decades, there has been only anecdotal evidence that any women actually used this right.
Source: WAMC
Aug 4, 2020
The symbols include a portrait of Robert E. Lee, several locations named after Lee and a road named after Sontewall Jackson.
Source: CNN
Aug 4, 2020
Douglas Macgregor described the German cultural concept of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," which seeks to "cope with the past" and confront the atrocities the country committed in World War II, as a "sick mentality" and he downplayed the country's Nazi history.
Source: Nature
Aug 4, 2020
The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 4, 2020
Unknown numbers of American children of Japanese ancestry were stuck in Japan because of visits to family when war broke out; some were in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Source: Slate
Aug 4, 2020
A 1961 Supreme Court ruling establishing the Exclusionary Rule--that evidence obtained illegally is inadmissible in trial--spurred a host of police practices to circumvent the rule, most involving lying in reports about the circumstances of a search or arrest.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 4, 2020
Columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that Trump's appeal to white suburban homeowners echoes the discriminatory rental practices that built the Trump family real estate business.
Source: Scalawag
Aug 3, 2020
John Lewis lived to see the birth and dismantling of voting rights that he fought and bled for.
Source: New York Times
Aug 3, 2020
"In the parlance of Northern Ireland, Mr. Hume was a “nationalist” whose dream of a reunited Ireland had no place for the violence embraced by “republicans” like the I.R.A., with its armed fighters and networks of financiers, bomb-makers and sympathizers in the region and in the United States."
Source: The Guardian
Aug 3, 2020
Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans
Source: NPR
Aug 3, 2020
"We're not asking them to destroy the statue," McFarland said. "We're asking them to remove it. I no longer want to have my taxpayer dollars keeping this symbol of hate and racism erected here on the courthouse square."
Source: Retro Report
Aug 3, 2020
As Covid-19 spreads, keeping workers from becoming sick on the job is taking on renewed importance. Research shows that robust sick leave policies can play an important role in stemming a pandemic.
Source: The New Yorker
Aug 2, 2020
Read John Hersey's influential 1946 account of the atomic bomb and its aftermath, along with related articles from The New Yorker.
Source: New York Times
Aug 2, 2020
Colleges are racing to reconfigure dorms, expand testing programs and establish detailed social distancing rules. And then, what to do about sex?
Source: NBC Chicago
Aug 2, 2020
At a news conference, State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.
Source: Library of Congress
Aug 2, 2020
The Library of Congress announces an August social media campaign for the history of women's suffrage for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
Source: Texas Monthly
Aug 1, 2020
An oral history by witnesses and survivors of Charles Whitman's mass shooting at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966.
Source: Newsweek
Aug 1, 2020
Tenured faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) told undergraduate students in an open letter not to return to campus this fall because of coronavirus concerns, the latest move in the debate over reopening schools.
Source: Business Insider
Jul 31, 2020
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the suspension saying the account has been "permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct."
