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 Conversation
May 8, 2020
by Stanley M. Brand
Prior decisions involving Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton established precedents that seem to portend defeat for President Trump in the upcoming hearing.
Source: British Pathé
May 8, 2020
British Pathé newsreels documented the announcement of German surrender and celebrations in the streets, offices and factories of London.
Source: Untapped New York
May 6, 2020
“[The documentary] is about the history of fashion in NYC from sweatshops in LES to the heyday of the Garment District to independent designers across the five boroughs,” Ariel Viera said.
Source: History.com
May 6, 2020
In 1996, the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
Source: Haaretz
May 5, 2020
Ammon Bundy tells crowd during anti-lockdown demonstration that Jewish people thought 'putting their head down and trying to not be noticed was the better way' in WWII.
Source: Architectural Digest
May 5, 2020
Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous examines an oft-overlooked aspect of the Virginia port community’s history.
Source: The Nation
May 5, 2020
Sarah Broom's memoir "The Yellow House" reconstructs not only her family’s history in New Orleans but also that larger arc of the black experience in the United States.
Source: Chattanooga Times-Free PRess
May 5, 2020
"Atlanta's Murdered and Missing" concluded Sunday with strong evidence that white supremacists may have been involved in the killings and the disappearances. Families of victims still despair of closure and justice.
Source: Vox
May 5, 2020
Should the most powerful man in the nation be given extraordinary legal immunity? Or does the fact that the president wields such power demand oversight of the man who holds that office?
Source: New York Times
May 5, 2020
More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness.
Source: New York Times
May 5, 2020
State legislatures are likely to respond to falling tax revenues by slashing budgets for public colleges and universities.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 5, 2020
Professors at Ohio U say tenure-track faculty cuts can't simply be blamed on COVID-19, but rather long-term financial mismanagement.
Source: New York Times
May 4, 2020
The generation that endured Nazi death camps is especially vulnerable to the pandemic.
Source: LAist
May 4, 2020
Verdugo, who became one of the founders of the Chicano student movement and spent much of his life mentoring youth, died Friday. He was 69.
Source: Wall Street Journal
May 4, 2020
As far-right political movements gain in the U.S. and abroad, a paper by an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York argues that the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 fueled the rise of Nazism in Germany.
Source: Times of Israel
May 4, 2020
Anti-Defamation Commission urges GoDaddy.com web hosting firm to take down World Truth Historical Revisionism site, calling it ‘an incitement to murder.’
Source: John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress
May 4, 2020
The John W. Kluge Center's upcoming online events include this conversation with Yuval Levin on democratic institutions in crisis.
Source: The Art Newspaper
May 4, 2020
A leading Russian avant-garde expert says he has identified dozens of works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova languishing in an obscure history museum in the Kirov region.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
May 4, 2020
by Will Bunch
Historian Thomas Grace argued that, contrary to the perception of student protesters as Ivy League elites, movements at Kent State built on family histories of labor unionism and the perception that working class kids' path to a better life was being short-circuited by the war in Vietnam.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
May 4, 2020
Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday.
