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: USA Today
Dec 5, 2019
The Rosa Parks collection includes 140 years of family history and approximately 10,000 items, according to curator Adrienne Cannon.
Source: ABC News
Dec 4, 2019
"We are grateful to Color of Change for bringing attention to this disrespectful practice," the statement added, referencing a California-based racial justice advocacy organization.
Source: Smithsonian
Dec 3, 2019
by Katherine J. Wu
After poring through data ranging from historical texts to pollen samples and mortuary archaeology, an international team of researchers has concluded that reports of the havoc wreaked by the Justinianic plague may have been exaggerated.
Source: History.com
Dec 3, 2019
Among the names the future first president gave his dogs were Sweet Lips, Venus, Trulove, Taster, Tippler, Drunkard and Madame Moose.
Source: The Conversation
Dec 3, 2019
by Robert Gudmestad
Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an abolitionist. What I find most fascinating, as a historian of American slavery, is how belief in God helped Tubman remain fearless, even when she came face to face with many challenges.
Source: The New Yorker
Dec 3, 2019
by Anthony Lane
The current gin craze knows no bounds, but the British have been imbibing the stuff for hundreds of years, sometimes with disastrous results.
Source: NY Times
Dec 2, 2019
A Maori man attacked a statue to raise awareness of his ancestors’ pain. A newspaper covered the story, and a very important reader took action: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 2, 2019
by Ronald G. Schafer
In 1935, the case went to the Supreme Court, which upheld the Senate’s power to jail a recalcitrant aviation industry lawyer.
Source: TIME
Dec 2, 2019
by Rachael Bunyan and Suyin Haynes
On Dec. 1, 1919, Nancy Astor took her seat in Parliament — the first woman in British history to do so.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Dec 2, 2019
Poland is the only major former Eastern Bloc country to do nothing to return private property confiscated by Nazis or nationalized by the communist government, according to the World Jewish Restitution Organization.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 1, 2019
by Brock Read
Student and faculty activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finally received on Wednesday an assurance they’d long sought — an email from Kevin Guskiewicz, the interim chancellor, telling them that the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam “will never return to our campus.”
Yet few of those activists were satisfied.
Source: The Washington Times
Nov 30, 2019
by Andrew Blake
Trump may have beaten Lincoln as a "better president" to some GOP members, but 59% of GOP faithful say Reagan still was better than Trump
Source: Washington Post
Nov 30, 2019
by Miriam Berger
For centuries Europeans sought out the “unicorn horn” of the arctic-dwelling narwhal whale.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 27, 2019
The project has also faced years of stiff resistance from critics who said its benefits were hardly worth the cost to local communities and from historians, archaeologists and others who say the preservation of Turkey’s cultural heritage is a global concern.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 27, 2019
by Kayla Epstein and Alex Horton
More than 900 medals were purged in 1918 for not meeting the criteria. But it did not include the 20 Medals of Honor given after Wounded Knee, which one Army general at the time called a “cold-blooded massacre.”
Source: Slate
Nov 26, 2019
Many attribute the adage to Winston Churchill, but it turns out he was just rewriting some losers.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine Online
Nov 26, 2019
Eighty years after it was patented, the Crock-Pot remains a comforting presence in American kitchens.
Source: Vulture
Nov 25, 2019
Watchmen is a story about history.
Source: History.com
Nov 25, 2019
Candidate George Washington plied potential voters with 47 gallons of beer, 35 gallons of wine, 2 gallons of cider, 3 1/2 pints of brandy and a whopping 70 gallons of rum punch.
Source: History.com
Nov 25, 2019
Since 1972, the Iowa Caucus has been the first—and some argue most important—electoral test on the road to each party’s presidential nomination. But how did it get that way?
