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: ZD Net
Jul 12, 2019
Microsoft creates a program that aims to use AI to preserve the world's cultures in the face of globalisation.
Source: History
Jul 12, 2019
Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.
Source: History Channel
Jul 12, 2019
Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.
Source: History
Jul 11, 2019
In 1969, NASA was spending millions on the Apollo space program. Some argued that money could be better spent.
Source: Scientific American
Jul 11, 2019
Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk
Source: Politico Magazine
Jul 11, 2019
by Bruce Ackerman
We owe Congress’ control of the Census not just to the Constitution, but to Republicans doing the right thing in the 1920s. Now Trump wants to roll it all back.
Source: New York Times
Jul 10, 2019
When will we finally learn we cannot predict people’s character from their appearance?
Source: The Conversation
Jul 9, 2019
by William Hauk
Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of U.S. trade negotiations with other countries and raised and lowered tariffs as it saw fit, while the president did little but sign his name.
Source: NY Times
Jul 9, 2019
For generations of black Americans, The Defender, influential and tough, was a force: “You knew it didn’t happen if it wasn’t in The Defender.”
Source: Time
Jul 9, 2019
Ross Perot, the self-made Texas billionaire and one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in U.S. history, died on Tuesday. He was 89.
Source: Yahoo News
Jul 9, 2019
“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living is responsible for, is a good idea,” McConnell said.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 9, 2019
Perhaps, the theory was, just by existing, Gay-Straight Alliance groups could make gay kids feel less alone, and that itself could reduce suicide risk, which was common among gay teens at the time.
Source: Perspectives on History
Jul 9, 2019
by Alison Miller
The archive’s unquestionable historical value means there’s more than money at stake in the process of finding a new home for it.
Source: Reuters
Jul 8, 2019
The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of “comfort women”, a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
Source: NY Times
Jul 8, 2019
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” said the principal of a high school in Boca Raton, Fla.
Source: NBC News
Jul 8, 2019
No news articles were found in which McConnell has previously spoken of his ancestors being slave owners.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 8, 2019
While Ocasio-Cortez may catch heat from the American left for giving Evita a platform, the Argentine first lady’s legacy is as strong as ever in her own country.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 8, 2019
Japan’s colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula ended more than seven decades ago yet that legacy still roils everyday politics on both sides of the strait.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 7, 2019
A small African-American community has existed less than 10 miles from the president’s former plantation for generations. Only recently has the full extent of their relationship been revealed.
Source: NY Times
Jul 6, 2019
Issues of educational inequality raised by a 1970s-era practice remain relevant today, but language can obscure what’s really at stake.
