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: New York Times
Jul 6, 2019
A feature film. A monument. Tattoos in her honor. People looking for a hero have found one in this one-woman precursor to today’s progressive politics.
Source: Chris Riback’s Conversations
Jul 5, 2019
How is today’s polarized, disrupted world one in which Russia can thrive?
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jul 5, 2019
Council’s vote to stop celebrating Founding Father’s birthday is latest twist
Source: AP
Jul 5, 2019
Grants, provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are given across four categories: capacity building, project planning, capital, and programming and interpretation.
Source: National Geographic
Jul 5, 2019
Swashbuckling Begum Samru commanded armies, took a litany of lovers, and dubbed herself Joanna, after Joan of Arc.
Source: NBC News
Jul 5, 2019
Rev. Carl Schlegel, a German immigrant, spoke on behalf of people attracted to the same sex in the early 1900s.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 5, 2019
A historian finds Catholic iconography with women performing acts that only men are allowed to do today—and that the works were covered up. Others aren’t convinced.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 4, 2019
A rare female icon of the Revolutionary War, she is credited with creating the first American flag.
Source: Black Perspectives
Jul 3, 2019
by Denise Lynn
Read about the "Trenton Six" and their similar story to the Central Park Five.
Source: Time
Jul 3, 2019
Douglass’ message — about America struggling to live up to the lofty goals it set for itself at the founding — continues to be relevant.
Source: History
Jul 3, 2019
The Independence Day tradition dates nearly as far back as the country's beginning and was proposed by one of the Founding Fathers.
Source: Share America
Jul 3, 2019
Ethnic Mongolians in Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region in China, are facing increased pressure from the Chinese Communist Party.
Source: Newsweek
Jul 2, 2019
An American flag featuring a 13-star circle was at the epicenter of controversy after Nike decided to stop the release of a sneaker featuring the symbol.
Source: Harvard Business Review
Jul 2, 2019
Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, an expert in business history, discusses the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. (now Chiquita Brands International).
Source: Washington Post
Jul 2, 2019
And Nixon didn’t even speak in person.
Source: Eurasia Review
Jul 1, 2019
Survivors showed a significantly decreased volume of grey matter in the brain compared with controls of a similar age who had not been directly exposed via personal or family history to the Holocaust.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jul 1, 2019
Sneaker maker pulls Independence Day-themed shoe after NFL star raised concerns about symbolism
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 1, 2019
Forty years after Margaret Thatcher’s era-defining election victory in 1979, Britain once again appears divided and ungovernable, with a decision to make.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 1, 2019
by Matthew Delmont
Kamala Harris took part in a bold experiment as a child—and the experiences of her generation may transform the debate over desegregation.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 30, 2019
Making a landmark documentary about LGBTQ Americans before 1969 meant digging through countless archives to find traces of a forgotten subculture.
