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: Newsweek
Jun 20, 2019
Just this week, the Confederate Defenders of Charleston monument in South Carolina was splattered with red paint, and police have already accused two people of vandalism.
Source: History Channel
Jun 20, 2019
by Philip Deslippe
Over a century ago, a Hindu monk named Swami Vivekananda spoke about yoga to a crowd in Chicago. In the decades since, it has gone from unknown to mainstream.
Source: Politifact
Jun 20, 2019
The historical origins of the term and how some historians interpreted her statement.
Source: Vox
Jun 20, 2019
by Ranjani Chakraborty
The hidden history of a North Carolina coup.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Jun 20, 2019
by Meilan Solly
The newly opened underground network features a brick oven once used to heat the baths’ caldarium, as well as a contemporary video art installation.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 20, 2019
A new book, “Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918,” makes it clear that Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple were more than just friends, according to its editors.
Source: Vox
Jun 20, 2019
The 1994 “tough on crime” law remains a big topic of debate in 2020 Democratic debates. Here’s what you need to know.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Jun 19, 2019
A new display explores gay life beyond the historic riots at the National Museum of American History
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 19, 2019
"The reparations conversation is much more layered and much more nuanced than people realize," Daina Ramey Berry said.
Source: NY Times
Jun 19, 2019
With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?
Source: Washington Post
Jun 19, 2019
by Calvin Schermerhorn
When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.
Source: NY Times
Jun 19, 2019
The governor’s proclamation is part of a cultural moment in which Americans are increasingly grappling with the nation’s past sins.
Source: AP
Jun 19, 2019
In addition to documents, photographs and the indexed genealogies of thousands of descendants, the project includes recorded interviews with dozens of living descendants.
Source: Daily Beast
Jun 19, 2019
In 1987, Trump attacked Reagan’s deployment in the Gulf to protect ‘ships we don’t own, carrying oil we don’t need destined for allies who won’t help.’
Source: NY Times
Jun 19, 2019
More than 150 years later, historians have discovered the Bible for the first time, a unique artifact of the 16th president’s life that they did not even know existed.
Source: Slate
Jun 19, 2019
by Rebecca Onion
A new book takes a historical look at how tech affects our collective mental state—and somehow, it’s not tedious.
Source: Before the Quagmire
Jun 18, 2019
Written by William J. Rust, The Mask of Neutrality: The United States and Decolonization in Indonesia, 1942–1950 examines three periods of America’s evolving engagement with Indonesia and the groups battling for control there.
Source: Richard Nixon Foundation
Jun 18, 2019
by Jeffrey B. Morris
The Burger Court was, on the whole, a pragmatic, flexible court, no more likely that its predecessor to be overly restrained by precedent.
Source: NY Times
Jun 18, 2019
“It’s legislation that we think has finally reached its moment,” said Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, the chief sponsor of the measure.
Source: Time
Jun 18, 2019
by Arica L. Coleman
The debate about reparations for slavery is not a new one — and the history of the idea shows just how many roadblocks there are to a meaningful conversation about the topic.
