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: NY Times
Feb 1, 2020
We visited the presidential museums, libraries and sites dedicated to Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton to talk to visitors about the impeachment facing President Trump.
Source: Time
Jan 31, 2020
They comprise fictional features, documentary films and even one “home movie,” and together tell an important story.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 31, 2020
The library’s decision is the second-known instance of a federal government institution acting to prevent images it determined to be critical of Trump from being shown to the public.
Source: Time
Jan 31, 2020
What started locally in Seattle in 2016, inspired by a federal investigation into the higher rate of suspensions of black students compared to their white peers, has grown into a nationwide organizing effort.
Source: Smithsonian Mag
Jan 30, 2020
This primer covers Scottish sovereignty from the Roman era to the Jacobite revolts, the 2014 referendum and Brexit.
Source: The Economist
Jan 30, 2020
For centuries British artists edited baby bumps out of their work. Why?
Source: Slate
Jan 30, 2020
by Charlton McIlwain
More than 50 years later, will the U.S.—and Silicon Valley—hear their message?
Source: The Conversation
Jan 30, 2020
by Robert Gudmestad
The evidence for this unconventional war is hidden in the shadows of the archives. Bits and pieces of information are littered throughout the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, materials in the National Archives, collections of sailors’ letters and diaries, and post-war accounts.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 29, 2020
by Calvin Schermerhorn
They are rare – the last one happened in 1952 – but when they do occur, they can be perilous for the party involved.
Source: Just Security
Jan 29, 2020
by Ryan Goodman
Regardless of whether the congressmen voted for or against the articles of impeachment, their legacies were largely defined by this one moment.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 29, 2020
by Jennifer Rich
The Never Again Education Act will seek to address these kinds of gaps in knowledge by making Holocaust education a bigger and more important part of education in various middle and high schools across the country.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 28, 2020
by Jorge L. Chinea
Many indigenous ruins lie along the shore, where ancient settlements thrived. A relatively new wave of researchers are only beginning to explore these endangered places, rediscovering the ancient relics, statues, stone engravings and paintings created and used by the Taíno people.
Source: New Yorker
Jan 27, 2020
Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.
Source: History.com
Jan 27, 2020
Railroads Were at the Forefront of Political Corruption
Source: Retropolis
Jan 27, 2020
Though Auschwitz was liberated on Jan. 27, 1945, most of the surviving girls weren’t there to see it.
Source: Time
Jan 27, 2020
by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Without living memories, pop culture will inevitably become the main source of knowledge for many of us.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 27, 2020
by Rashad Shabazz
The history of Minneapolis and why, simply put, Prince would not sound like Prince without Minneapolis.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 26, 2020
The American Historical Association's pre-COVID numbers on the job market for history PhDs showed a small increase in the number of history faculty positions. It can be assumed that that stability is now gone.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 25, 2020
In 1999, Starr was derided by Trump as “a lunatic” during his investigation of Bill Clinton’s sexual liaison with Monica Lewinsky.
Source: Time
Jan 25, 2020
But 70 years after the Indian constitution came into force, left-wing protesters aren’t the only group claiming to be the ideological heirs to Ambedkar.
