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: The Atlantic
Jul 30, 2019
Many historians insisted this field already exists: it's history.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
Jul 30, 2019
The finding by the Federal Highway Administration puts pressure on the Obama Foundation to find a way to “resolve adverse effects” and turns up the heat on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to order the foundation to make those changes.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Jul 30, 2019
Nearly 16,000 pages of diaries, letters, speeches and other documents are available on the library’s crowdsourcing platform.
Source: Pacific Standard
Jul 30, 2019
by David M. Perry
A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 30, 2019
by Tim Naftali
In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.
Source: The North Star
Jul 30, 2019
Containing more than 4 million photographs, the collection will be distributed among a number of cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Getty Research Institute.
Source: The Conversation
Jul 30, 2019
by Rachel Caufield
While other countries set strict limits on the length of campaigns, American presidential races have become drawn-out, yearslong affairs. It wasn’t always this way.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Jul 29, 2019
by Brigit Katz
Most recently, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posing in front of the sign with guns.
Source: AP
Jul 29, 2019
Trump will join national and state leaders and dignitaries at Tuesday’s event, a commemorative session of the Virginia General Assembly at which Trump is to deliver remarks.
Source: Time
Jul 29, 2019
"The tweets said two things — that Baltimore was full of rodents, but also that no humans would want to live there. That’s untrue."
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 29, 2019
Crowd was so eager to see Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, they threatened to trample others
Source: Forbes
Jul 28, 2019
Richards changed history by going out on many limbs throughout her life and career.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 28, 2019
A schoolteacher created the popular board game, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, for quarantined children. An Object Lesson.
Source: NPR
Jul 28, 2019
Does Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 86-year-old feminist icon, have any regrets about her professional life? Hardly.
Source: Snopes
Jul 28, 2019
American history is filled with examples where one partisan side alleges that some idea embraced by the other side threatens to compromise American national strength or sovereignty.
Source: Time
Jul 27, 2019
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19), a group led by historian Peter Cole, hopes to make sure the memory lasts beyond the weekend of July 27.
Source: NY Times
Jul 27, 2019
by Clay Risen
From Elizabeth Warren to Mike Pence, politicians want to claim America’s 26th president as their inspiration. They might want to reconsider.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 27, 2019
Was veteran combat pilot David L. Mandt still aboard his Grumman Bearcat when it went down in the bay? Rescue crews found an oil slick and one of his gloves.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 27, 2019
Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx were friendly and deeply connected.
Source: CNN
Jul 26, 2019
Interest in finding the Clotilda reignited in January 2018 after AL.com reporter Ben Raines discovered the remains of a ship near Mobile.
