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 Mag
Jan 17, 2020
by James Delle
The archaeological excavation of an empty field yielded clues and reminders of an incredible uprising long buried from history.
Source: Time
Jan 17, 2020
by Olivia B. Waxman
The civil-rights leader’s personal political party affiliation remains a mystery.
Source: Time
Jan 17, 2020
by Vincent Brown
Wager, also known by his African name, Apongo, was a leader of the largest slave rebellion in the 18th century British Empire. But long before taking his part in the great Jamaican insurrection of 1760– 1761, commonly called Tacky’s Revolt, he had been on a remarkable odyssey.
Source: Washigton Post
Jan 17, 2020
A photo history of America’s ban on alcohol
Source: Washington Post
Jan 17, 2020
A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women” has the word Trump blurred out.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 16, 2020
As Trump’s trial gets set to begin, the spotlight is inevitably turning — just as it did with Johnson — to the chief justice of the United States, who must somehow preside over this very odd, kind-of-sort-of legal process of politicians sitting in judgment of the country’s commander in chief.
Source: WBUR
Jan 16, 2020
Partisan politics are making their way into school textbooks, reports The New York Times. We dig into the report.
Source: Smithsonian Mag
Jan 15, 2020
by Ai Hisano
A business historian explains America’s commitment to regulating the appearance of everything from margarine to canned peas.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 14, 2020
One by one, rare books vanished from the library — the Journal of George Washington; a copy of Isaac Newton’s “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” valued at nearly $1 million; an Atlas by a 19th-century German explorer worth $1.2 million.
Source: Time
Jan 14, 2020
The hundreds of unpaid volunteers who participated filled out a series of questionnaires and made regular diary entries. They wrote about the intimate details of their lives as well as their thoughts and feelings about the world around them.
Source: PolitiFact
Jan 14, 2020
Four experts told us there is no evidence that Japan ever seriously considered such an invasion and that military limitations, not Americans armed with hunting weapons, were the reasons why.
Source: YouGov
Jan 13, 2020
New study reveals stark divides on how Americans think about the Confederate flag.
Source: History.com
Jan 13, 2020
Since the demolition crew’s report was top secret, no word emerged about the whereabouts of the missing atomic bomb. Were there clues in the wreckage that the bomb had in fact been released prior to impact?
Source: MPR News
Jan 13, 2020
Camilla Townsend’s new book, "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs," documents the story of the Aztecs from an entirely new perspective, that of the Aztecs themselves.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 13, 2020
by Kristin Heineman
The Babylonians, who lived in modern-day Iraq, were astute observers and interpreters of the heavens, and it is largely thanks to them that our weeks are seven days long.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 12, 2020
by Nancy Cushing
City dwellers in southeast Australia have been forced to take a crash course in the finer points of air pollution.
Source: NY Times
Jan 12, 2020
American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 11, 2020
Disgraced former House speaker Dennis Hastert’s name was trending on Twitter Saturday morning after President Trump suggested “Nancy Pelosi will go down as the absolute worst Speaker of the House in U.S. History!”
Source: Washington Post
Jan 11, 2020
For the past 17 years, the United States has maintained a military presence in Iraq.
Source: CNN
Jan 10, 2020
While the voter mobilization efforts that tipped Georgia's senate races to the Democrats have been much-discussed, they capitalized on a long-term shift in the Black population to the urban and suburban south, a "reverse great migration" that will be politically consequential for years to come.
