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 Magazine
Sep 6, 2019
Ever since the 17th century, educators and architects designed university housing with societal mores in mind.
Source: African American Intellectual History Society
Sep 6, 2019
by Jessica Parr
The sale of The Ebony and Jet Magazines have raised concerns among historians, archivists, and the Black community.
Source: Politico Magazine
Sep 5, 2019
What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House, to the fighter pilots prepared to ram the cockpit and to the passengers.
Source: Time
Sep 5, 2019
When President Trump held up a map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path, it included a Sharpie-drawn extension to show the storm hitting Alabama.
Source: History.com
Sep 4, 2019
Includes comments by James P. Ronda, Henry W. Brands, Beth Lew-Williams, and Richard White.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 4, 2019
100 years of football history through artifacts from the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Source: Harvard Magazine
Sep 4, 2019
by Adele Logan Alexander
The brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 3, 2019
by Eliga Gould
Given the similarities between the U.S. and U.K. political systems and the personal parallels – and affection – between Johnson and U.S. President Donald Trump, Americans might wonder whether the president has a similar power to suspend Congress.
Source: Origins
Sep 3, 2019
by Zeb Larson
Twenty-five years ago, South Africa peacefully transitioned from a white-minority government to a black majority government, yet the legacy of apartheid still lingers today.
Source: NY Times
Sep 1, 2019
The event served to underscore the divisions in Europe and within Poland itself.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 1, 2019
Photo buffs know the truth behind the classic photo "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper": It was staged.
Source: Reuters
Aug 31, 2019
Germany’s president asked for forgiveness for his country on Sunday for the suffering of the Polish people during World War Two as Poland marked 80 years since the Nazi German invasion that unleashed the deadliest conflict in human history.
Source: NY Times
Aug 31, 2019
Beyond the lynchings, 1919 became notable for another tactic that white mobs used to strike at the heart of African-American communities: attacking black churches just as they were emerging as the center of black life in America.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 31, 2019
“It was not my job to make the rough edges of history smooth, even for the president,” Lonnie Bunch writes.
Source: NY Times
Aug 30, 2019
An underwater exploration this month revealed the wreckage, much of it well preserved by cold water, lack of light and layers of silt, that likely contains documents with information about an ill-fated expedition that set sail in 1845.
Source: Time
Aug 30, 2019
by Peter Cole
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 30, 2019
The goal for the Cold War rivals was the same: to prove that animals could survive in orbit so that people could, too. But why did the Soviets use dogs, while the Americans used primates?
Source: Washington Post
Aug 28, 2019
Featuring the work of historians Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Leslie M. Harris, Walter Johnson, Daina Ramey Berry, and Andrés Reséndez.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Aug 27, 2019
Two of the most famous figures in American history share more than space in a history textbook.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 27, 2019
Whether we’re considering corking the top of an erupting volcano, erecting a wall to guard against a tornado or pumping water into a fault line to stop an earthquake, humanity’s solutions are often shortsighted and sloppy.
