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: Smithsonian
Jun 12, 2019
by Sam Wineburg
The first president wanted to unite citizens of all religions without alienating Catholics, freethinkers and Jews.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 12, 2019
In recent months, migrant children have been housed in tents; it is unclear what their accommodations will be like at Fort Sill.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 12, 2019
by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Starting in the 1850s, proponents of the movement for women’s rights traded their long dresses for bloomers—and paid a heavy social price for it.
Source: AP
Jun 11, 2019
While the library has also faced criticism from residents over the traffic it will bring and people it will displace, Tuesday’s decision was largely celebrated by neighborhood organizations and business groups.
Source: CBS News
Jun 11, 2019
As Anne Frank's 90th birthday approaches, historian Edna Friedberg said it's important to remember the sacrifices Otto Frank and others made to keep her legacy alive.
Source: History.com
Jun 11, 2019
During Prohibition, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Source: Lancaster Online
Jun 10, 2019
The flag represents the 127th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops and is being sold by the Grand Army of the Republic Museum in Philadelphia to bolster the museum’s finances.
Source: AP
Jun 10, 2019
People are more likely to engage with history if other actual people — not facts or data or even anecdotes — can act as guides and say, even in subjectivity-saturated ways: This is what it felt like.
Source: Think Progress
Jun 10, 2019
Sen. Josh Hawley says not to compare Trump's behavior to Nixon's because Watergate was more than 40 years ago.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 10, 2019
“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.
Source: Perspectives on History
Jun 10, 2019
by Jennifer M. Miller
Today's deep apprehension about the consequences of misinformation and foreign subversion can make it easy to forget that such fears are not new.
Source: NPR
Jun 10, 2019
Dean was a key Watergate insider – and whistle blower – due to his special role as White House counsel.
Source: Euro News
Jun 10, 2019
A new dam being built on the River Tigris is believed to responsible for potentially displacing around 50 thousand people from the area, and the historical losses are incalculable.
Source: Baltimore Post Examiner
Jun 9, 2019
Authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch offer insight into a little known chapter in the saga of America’s finest son.
Source: CBS News
Jun 9, 2019
David Eisenhower's grandfather commanded the greatest military operation of history's most terrible war.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 8, 2019
by Associated Press
Redocumenting and recreating civil rights history in Montgomery, Alabama.
Source: TPM
Jun 7, 2019
They may represent a minority position, but the sentiment shows just how far the Myth of the Lost Cause, a systematic effort to rehabilitate the racist legacy of the Confederacy, has spread.
Source: Politico Magazine
Jun 6, 2019
by Joshua Zeitz
How World War Two transformed United States citizens from divided patriots into united believers of the "arsenal of democracy".
Source: NY Times
Jun 6, 2019
The commissioner, James O’Neill, said he was sorry on behalf of the New York Police Department for officers’ actions during a seminal 1969 clash outside a gay bar.
Source: The Boston Globe
Jun 6, 2019
“I’d like to see there be not another Ken Burns but maybe 10 other Ken Burnses."
