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: Roll Call
Oct 4, 2019
A museum of Women's History may be coming soon.
Source: Nursing Clio
Oct 3, 2019
by Sarah Horowitz
It’s more accurate to say that technology can help us find the evidence that we are culturally primed to look for.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 3, 2019
The historic judgment that U.S. presidents do not hold unchecked power to declare executive privilege set a precedent that courts would consider in evaluating whether President Trump could shield his own communications from external scrutiny amid an impeachment inquiry.
Source: History.com
Oct 2, 2019
by Evan Andrews
In March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and his followers set off on a brisk 241-mile march to the Arabian Sea town of Dandi to lay Indian claim to the nation's own salt.
Source: History.com
Oct 2, 2019
Ralph Lazo wasn’t of Japanese descent, but he spent two years at Manzanar in solidarity with his friends.
Source: WBUR
Oct 2, 2019
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives could push for depositions to begin this week as Congress considers whether to impeach President Trump.
Source: Time
Oct 1, 2019
by Andrew Robinson
Einstein was widely thought to be public enemy number one of the Nazis.
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 1, 2019
by Michael E. Ruane
Reporter George Hicks recorded the deafening chaos of battle. On Monday, his original tapes were donated to the National D-Day Memorial.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 1, 2019
Carter has reached yet another milestone despite thinking he was on the verge of death just a few years earlier, after doctors discovered that cancer had spread to his brain.
Source: CBS Minnesota
Oct 1, 2019
For the past week and half, Ukraine has been all over the airwaves. The eastern European county has become the center of an American political scandal.
Source: Origins
Oct 1, 2019
by Archana Venkatesh
The roots of nationalists’ politics in India are religious, and those roots run deep.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sep 30, 2019
by Eric Stirgus
University of Georgia leaders say they want to know more about the school’s history concerning slavery and are committing $100,000 for faculty to submit research proposals.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Sep 29, 2019
The legal definition of the phrase ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ was left flexible by the framers of the Constitution to protect against abuses of power
Source: Chris Riback's Conversations
Sep 27, 2019
by Chris Riback
“Follow the media culture of America over the course of Trump’s career, and you will understand better how Trump happened. Follow how Trump happened and you will understand better what we became.”
Source: The Conversation
Sep 27, 2019
A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 27, 2019
Kehinde Wiley, the man who painted the portrait of Barack Obama that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled his latest work, a monumentally scaled bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Sep 27, 2019
A new interactive project seeks to preserve oral testimonies connected to 20 historic locations.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 27, 2019
by Jennifer M. Pacella
In many instances, whistleblowers find the abusive power they have revealed turned against them, both ending their careers and harming their personal lives.
Source: Time
Sep 27, 2019
by Jasmine Aguilera
A century after a massacre of Mexican men by white Texans, these families are speaking up and telling the world what happened.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Sep 27, 2019
Renia Spiegel was killed by the Nazis when she was 18 years old.
