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: TIME
Sep 20, 2019
by Marlen Komar
Tights Season was once revolutionary.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 20, 2019
Chief Standing Bear is often forgotten. Now he has a statue in the Capitol.
Source: Philadelphia Tribune
Sep 20, 2019
Vital repairs are underway on the old Robert Purvis house at 16th and Mount Vernon streets, where the famous abolitionist helped thousands of people escape slavery to freedom through Philadelphia.
Source: History.com
Sep 20, 2019
by Tera W. Hunter
Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 20, 2019
Scandalous images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau don’t just tarnish his image—they also point to the hidden history of racism and minstrelsy in his country.
Source: Black Perspectives
Sep 19, 2019
by Thomas A. Foster
Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses the history of the portrayal of Black bodies, and how that has manifested in 2019.
Source: The Hill
Sep 19, 2019
The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 19, 2019
by Asher Price
Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.
Source: Washigton Post
Sep 18, 2019
Douglass sat for scores of pictures to normalize the idea of black excellence and equality, and Warren’s thousands of selfies with supporters could do the same for a female president.
Source: The History Channel
Sep 17, 2019
by Sarah Pruitt
Operation Market Garden was a daring and massive offensive into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands that ultimately became a costly failure.
Source: NY Times
Sep 17, 2019
Tours through Harlem and Wall Street, along with a new exhibition in Brooklyn, tell all-but-forgotten stories.
Source: Time
Sep 17, 2019
Long before Citizenship Day was made official, there was “I Am An American Day.” Its initial conception was a sign of its times, and its evolution has been significant too.
Source: History.com
Sep 17, 2019
The historical precedent to this week's GM United Auto Workers union strike.
Source: Real Clear Investigations
Sep 17, 2019
Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.
Source: The Intercept
Sep 17, 2019
by David Stein
The Intercept reveals the untold story of how Joe Biden pushed Ronald Reagan to ramp up incarceration — not the other way around.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 16, 2019
The Senate Historical Office offers insight into the only Supreme Court Justice impeachment in U.S. History.
Source: New Yorker
Sep 16, 2019
The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.
Source: History.com
Sep 16, 2019
The 18-karat gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, on September 14 - only two days after the palace installed it as part of an art exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 15, 2019
Hundreds of thousands of people have watched the riveting 1965 debate between the two writers — one white, the other black — on YouTube.
Source: Time
Sep 13, 2019
by Chevel Johnson
Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, has died.
