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: NY Times
Jul 19, 2019
The U.S.S. Eagle PE-56, which lost 49 of 62 crew members, was located by a civilian dive team.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Jul 19, 2019
An oral history of the ethnic cleansing in Belarus, as remembered by those who should have been far too young to endure such a tragedy.
Source: Truth Out
Jul 19, 2019
by Emily Thuma
The story of how women fought to end violence.
Source: NPR
Jul 19, 2019
In light of President Trump's comments about four freshmen lawmakers, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard Professor Khalil Muhammad about the history of dissent in American political life.
Source: The New York Review of Books
Jul 18, 2019
by Marilynne Robinson
A brief history of John Winthrop and the misconceptions of "A City on a Hill".
Source: Washington Post
Jul 18, 2019
The restored cabin opened to the public in 2017 and was dedicated in honor of Agnes Kane Callum. The property also has an exhibit that describes the working farm, and lists the names of the enslaved people who lived there.
Source: Time
Jul 17, 2019
by Katharine Wilkinson
A female scientist made the connection between carbon dioxide and global warming in the mid 19th century.
Source: History.com
Jul 17, 2019
A surprising number of the Apollo spacecraft’s critical parts ended up being crafted and assembled by hand, by a vast battalion of little-known and little-heralded workers back on earth.
Source: Politico Magazine
Jul 17, 2019
by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Lawmakers will vote on the Raise the Wage Act, which would boost the minimum wage across the country to $15 an hour by 2024. This would be a crucial step toward the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade.
Source: NY Times
Jul 16, 2019
For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Jul 16, 2019
Did urban settlement spring from the hearts and minds of the people, or from elites’ strategies for increasing their own power?
Source: The Conversation
Jul 16, 2019
by Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk
I recently conducted a study on ambiguous speech, using Armstrong’s famous quote to try to figure out why and how we successfully understand speech most of the time, but also make the occasional mistake.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 15, 2019
A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead
Source: Washington Post
Jul 15, 2019
From that drive to encourage blacks to go back where they came from to waves of nativist attacks on Catholics, Jews, Asians and Hispanics in nearly every generation that followed, “go home” rhetoric is as American as immigration itself.
Source: NPR
Jul 15, 2019
It will include a quote from Turing: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be."
Source: CNN
Jul 14, 2019
Frank Bowman III, a law professor at the University of Missouri, is out with the definitive history of impeachment in his new book, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors; A History of Impeachment for the Age Of Trump."
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jul 14, 2019
Before the statue and long before the brand-new museum, there were pirates, real-estate ventures and public executions
Source: CNN
Jul 14, 2019
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation officially declaring July 13 "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day," thus honoring the former Confederate general, slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Source: ABC News
Jul 13, 2019
The filming of "Bisbee '17," a documentary about what happened July 12, 1917, was a history lesson for residents recruited to play historical figures in the production filmed exactly 100 years later that weds documentary and collective performance.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 13, 2019
Ted Cruz took to criticizing Tenessee for celebration of a Confederate general and KKK Grand Wizard.
