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: NPR
Jun 18, 2019
A four-year NPR investigation, led by Alabama-based reporters Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace, found an eyewitness to the attack who has never spoken publicly about what she saw.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Jun 18, 2019
by Karin Wulf
In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.
Source: California Historical Society
Jun 17, 2019
by Alison Rose Jefferson
Before, during and after the transcontinental line’s construction, in southern states, thousands of enslaved and then freedmen worked on the railroads grading lines, building bridges, and blasting tunnels.
Source: Pew Research Center
Jun 17, 2019
63% believing slavery affects the position of black people in American society today either a great deal or a fair amount.
Source: New York Times
Jun 17, 2019
As generations of pilots and mechanics age, will there be enough young people to keep the planes flying?
Source: New York Times
Jun 17, 2019
Professor Hill spoke with Jessica Bennett, gender editor at The New York Times and called for a greater recognition of gender-based violence in the political sphere, and stronger leadership on the issue.
Source: The American Historian
Jun 17, 2019
by Wilma King
June Nineteenth is widely celebrated for the abolition of slavery in Texas and the Confederate States in general.
Source: CNN
Jun 17, 2019
The growth of women's soccer is a microcosm of the fight for gender equality.
Source: NPR
Jun 16, 2019
Victoria Hui, a Hong Kong native and political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, explains Hong Kong's political history as protests continue there.
Source: The National Interest
Jun 16, 2019
Because of its propensity to catch fire, the Sherman soon gained several nicknames. “Tommycooker” (which was a World War I trench cooker), “Ronsons” (a la the cigarette lighter that were guaranteed in their ads to “Light up the first time, every time!”), and also what the Free Poles called “The Burning Grave.”
Source: The Week
Jun 16, 2019
Kings, queens, and emperors have ruled over nations for 5,000 years. How have they adapted to the 21st century?
Source: Space.com
Jun 15, 2019
If Congress still needs some convincing, the timing may be right.
Source: Historians for Peace and Democracy
Jun 14, 2019
by Van Gosse
Since the Civil War, a series of constitutional amendments, acts of Congress, and Supreme Court decisions have extended the right to vote, but always through negative prohibitions on what a state or locality may do.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 14, 2019
The bloody Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 also played out in the Persian Gulf, and hundreds of ships owned by or associated with the two sides were targeted in the conflict.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 13, 2019
This is the second time the museum has come under fire for its treatment of the second African American member of the Supreme Court.
Source: Time
Jun 13, 2019
by Olivia B. Waxman
President Trump's use of executive privilege in comparison with other American presidents.
Source: SPLC Learning for Justice
Jun 12, 2019
A celebration of freedom should put the work of the people who fought and struggled to achieve it at the center; thinking of freedom as something achieved instead of something granted.
Source: NY Times
Jun 12, 2019
A review of Linda Hirshman's Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment.
Source: The Conversation
Jun 12, 2019
by Stephen Groening
The techniques and technologies described in the novel are very much present in today’s world.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 12, 2019
Trump is just the latest president to try to shield White House documents and discussions from Congress
