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 Magazine
Sep 13, 2019
Joe Biden’s “proudest” legislation during his time in the Senate left an imprint on modern women’s rights discussion.
Source: Boston Review
Sep 12, 2019
by Eric Loomis
Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated.
Source: Wbur.org
Sep 12, 2019
by Robin Young and Allison Hagan
A Maryland commission empowered to investigate at least 40 lynchings that occurred between 1854 and 1933 will have its public launch Thursday night.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 11, 2019
Woodhull sought to unite a coalition of African Americans, abolitionists, laborers, suffragists and 19th-century Spiritualists — groups that found themselves without a voice in government and relegated to the fringes of power.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 11, 2019
by Gillian Brockell
Inconsistencies haven’t stopped Trump from repeating versions of his actions on 9/11.
Source: Time
Sep 10, 2019
by Olivia B. Waxman
Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.
Source: Nursing Clio
Sep 10, 2019
by Nick Johnson
From pill bottles to produce sections, modern medicine and agriculture have effectively distanced our relationship to the plants that matter most to us.
Source: Nordics Info
Sep 10, 2019
by Thorsten Borring Olesen
Greenland has been and continues to be a vital strategic asset, not least to the US - and perhaps even more so due to the possible effects of climate change.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 10, 2019
by Laura Beers
So why isn’t the Queen taking more criticism for giving Johnson what he wanted? One answer is that she had no choice.
Source: History Channel
Sep 9, 2019
On September 11, 2001, 125 people inside the Pentagon were killed. The losses were devastating, but it could have been even worse.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 9, 2019
by Alan Taylor
In April 1904, St. Louis opened its doors to the world for what was officially called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, but was widely known as the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Source: National Security Archive
Sep 9, 2019
by William Burr
The newly declassified documents reveal the Soviet atomic project posed a major challenge to U.S. intelligence and expands our knowledge of the role of German scientists in advancing the Soviet nuclear program.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 9, 2019
by Kate Clarke Lemay and Martha S. Jones
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story of the women and their contributions to American democracy.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 9, 2019
by John Hoberman and Tim Naftali
After Tim Naftali's article on Ronald Reagan's racism earlier this year, the Atlantic published two letters discussing Daniel Patrick Moynihan's views on race.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Sep 8, 2019
The presence of newfound artifacts is evidence, archaeologists say, that native people in Northern California carried on their traditions and maintained tribal ties much longer than many historians thought.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 8, 2019
“We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized."
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 7, 2019
by Alan Taylor
“Take a step into a visual time capsule now, for a brief look at the year 1989.”
Source: Washington Post
Sep 7, 2019
by Gillian Brockell
Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.
Source: NY Times
Sep 7, 2019
The debate in Massachusetts comes at a time of reckoning over the nation’s history.
Source: NY Times
Sep 7, 2019
With Congress prepared to again clash over gun safety, in the aftermath of a murderous August, the circuitous route to passage taken by the assault weapons ban 25 years ago illustrates just how perfectly the legislative stars must align for contentious gun measures to become law.
