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: Smithsonian Magazine
May 26, 2020
Executive producer Renee Tajima-Peña says the program is about “how we got where we are and where are we going next.”
Source: Jacobin
May 26, 2020
A union doesn’t automatically protect you from unsafe working conditions, but it can give you the freedom to follow your survival instincts instead of your supervisor.
Source: History.com
May 26, 2020
A quota was set that limited immigration to two percent of any given nation’s residents already in the U.S. as of 1890, a provision designed to maintain America’s largely Northern European racial composition.
Source: Daily Beast
May 26, 2020
The History Channel miniseries “Grant,” executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, celebrates Ulysses S. Grant’s Civil War heroism and exposes the racism of the Confederacy.
Source: New York Times
May 25, 2020
The virus has spread in more than 40 veterans’ homes in more than 20 states, leading to the deaths of at least 300 people.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
May 25, 2020
Wildcat strikes by white workers were not uncommon protests against the workplace gains made by African Americans on the World War II homefront; they were frequently violent.
Source: Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
May 25, 2020
The curators of three Washington-based exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment discuss the history of women's suffrage.
Source: KUT
May 25, 2020
In the new book, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court", coauthors Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson tell the story of nine women who were considered for positions on the country's highest court in the decades before O'Connor's appointment.
Source: NBC News
May 25, 2020
As budgets are stricken and mass layoffs become routine, scholars of all levels are fighting back to make sure diversity in academia won’t become collateral damage in the pandemic.
Source: WFAE
May 25, 2020
Music, art classes, posters, plays and photography funded by the federal government were supposed to unite a nation in turmoil.
Source: The New Yorker
May 25, 2020
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, idols of the Golden Age of sports, brought stardom to America’s pastime.
Source: Crosscut
May 25, 2020
Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell has deepened the public memory of the Civil Rights Era. His reporting offers important lessons for today.
Source: Reel Chicago
May 25, 2020
The documentary, narrated by legendary journalist Bill Kurtis, is a comprehensive telling of nearly everything that happened in Chicagoland during World War II.
Source: New York Magazine
May 25, 2020
by Jonathan Chait
Jonathan Chait is skeptical of John Nichols's new book, which argues that the Democratic Party's present struggles stem from the decision in 1944 to remove progressive VP Henry Wallace from the ticket in favor of moderate Harry Truman.
Source: New York Daily News
May 25, 2020
The recent inadvertent revelation of the name of a Saudi official believed to have aided the 9/11 hijackers has renewed calls by many victims' families for much greater transparency about the Saudi regime's involvement in the attacks.
Source: New York Times
May 25, 2020
The political sympathies of Irish Americans have shifted away from the Democratic party in the decades since John F. Kennedy's presidency.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
May 24, 2020
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School took Native children from their families in an effort to strip them of their language, culture and religion. This year, COVID restrictions limited but did not stop annual remembrance of children who died there.
Source: New York Times
May 24, 2020
She didn’t serve in the military herself. But she saw the armed services denying equal benefits to female veterans, and she crusaded to make a difference.
Source: Facing South
May 24, 2020
Ray Eurquhart developed as an activist by organizing his fellow Air Force personnel during his Vietnam-era service, bringing the demands of civil rights movements into the military.
Source: Associated Press
May 24, 2020
The move could potentially inflame the controversy that led to deadly violence by far-right defenders of the Confederate memorials in 2017.
