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 New Yorker
May 14, 2020
New Yorker critic Hua Hsu questions whether the PBS documentary series will simplify the experiences of Asian Americans through a lens of celebration that obscures ongoing conflict and prejudice.
Source: History.com
May 14, 2020
Even though a widely-accepted account says the outlaw was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico, murky details have led to other theories.
Source: FOIA Ombudsman Blog (National Archives)
May 14, 2020
The National Archives has joined other organizations in a call to ensure that records related to the pandemic and governments' responses are preserved and made accessible to future researchers.
Source: New York Times
May 14, 2020
Historians have accounted for how the influenza pandemic unfolded across the US and the world, but have been less successful accounting for why the disease seems to have been forgotten.
Source: New York Times
May 14, 2020
Richard Gilder used his fortune to advance many passion projects, including the refurbishment of New York's Central Park and the preservation of primary documents important to the study of American history.
Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
May 14, 2020
This exhibition immerses virtual visitors into a conversation that examines what fighting in the first global war meant for African Americans.
Source: The Daily Herald
May 14, 2020
The bodies of the former slave owner and reputed Ku Klux Klan member and his wife remain buried in Memphis, TN, but they could be moved to Columbia, SC.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 14, 2020
Missouri Western cuts 30 percent of the faculty, along with programs in history, political science, sociology, economics, music and more.
Source: University of Chicago Institute of Politics
May 14, 2020
Gene Sperling's new book challenges decades of market-oriented economic policy in favor of a standard based on human well-being.
Source: Facing South
May 13, 2020
"One of the things that I put in the book is something that was an integral part of my upbringing: My dad always taught me that heroes walk among us."
Source: Slate
May 13, 2020
Did Phyllis Schlafly really accept support from the Klan? Was she really hit with a pie? We break down “Bella.”
Source: Inverse
May 13, 2020
Contemporary comic book writer Gene Luen Yang draws inspiration from vintage anti-Klan comics.
Source: Al Jazeera
May 13, 2020
Mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims, report says.
Source: News 3 Las Vegas
May 13, 2020
John Gotti allegedly maintained a low-profile skimming operation at an off-strip casino years after Nevada officials believed they had swept the mob out of the gaming business.
Source: Charleston Post and Courier
May 13, 2020
Today marks the anniversary of one of the most dramatic episodes in the Civil War--Robert Smalls's escape from slavery in a stolen Confederate naval ship.
Source: KOB4
May 12, 2020
Davis was a businessman and civic leader who supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
May 12, 2020
Chancellor Timothy P. White told California State trustees that it would be irresponsible to bring the system’s nearly 500,000 students back to its 23 campuses in the fall.
Source: Fox Carolina
May 12, 2020
Carolyn Reidy helped bring the writings of historians including David Blight and David McCullough to a wide readership.
Source: New York Times
May 12, 2020
Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.
Source: New York Times
May 11, 2020
Jerry Stiller mined a rich comedic vein that was rooted in cultural conflict between Jewish immigrants and their American-born children.
