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: National Review
May 27, 2019
Our young nation was very poor, the war was very expensive, and Congress and the states wanted everyone else to pay.
Source: New York Times
May 27, 2019
Contributions to the memorial have flagged, and federal money has become stretched across an expanding landscape of tributes.
Source: News-Decoder
May 26, 2019
Why are the U.S. and Iran at daggers drawn while Donald Trump has vowed to pull troops out of foreign wars?
Source: NY Times
May 26, 2019
The people of Africatown are already dreaming that the ship’s bones will reside with them, serving as a key not only to the past but to the future, attracting tourists and sparking a much-needed renaissance.
Source: Inside Sources
May 26, 2019
by Esau Williams
Theresa May’s exit is not likely to change Britian's relationship with Europe much.
Source: CBS News
May 26, 2019
Pam Elam and Coline Jenkins run the Monumental Women campaign. Their goal: to erect a monument in Central Park honoring women's suffrage pioneers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
May 25, 2019
by Ralph Seliger
How the Japanese-American organizers of a museum exhibit at Ellis Island entitled “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience” came to an amicable agreement with the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
Source: Yale News
May 25, 2019
by Wayne Willis
“Isn’t it interesting that you are talking to a man, who talked to a man who was exactly your age, only 110 years ago?"
Source: The Guardian
May 25, 2019
Translated into English for the first time, letters to grandmother and others reveal context of birthdays, boys and braces as well as the rising Nazi menace.
Source: Wall Street Journal
May 25, 2019
As recent events change how visitors see Confederate imagery, sites work to broaden the audience
Source: Time
May 24, 2019
by Thurston Clarke
Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.
Source: Washington Post
May 24, 2019
You can’t throw a potato peel without hitting a new bestseller about the perils of Nazi Germany.
Source: National Geographic
May 24, 2019
No one is sure how the holiday started, and people debate how it should be celebrated, but it still honors those who lost their lives in service of their country.
Source: Time
May 24, 2019
by Marc Wortman
A recently rediscovered diary recounts the harrowing final days of the fighting that brought the Communists to power.
Source: NY Times
May 23, 2019
Last month, the University of Minnesota board of regents held a special meeting to discuss whether to remove the names of four former university administrators at the school’s Twin Cities campus.
Source: Time
May 23, 2019
The observance now takes place every May in the U.S. and is marked by communities within the country’s 22.2 million Asians and 1.6 million Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders.
Source: Washington Post
May 23, 2019
Mount Vernon is also a Southern plantation where hundreds of people lived in servitude and abject poverty, and their stories deserve to be heard, too.
Source: NY Times
May 23, 2019
If you’re surprised that the issue of reparations for black Americans has taken so long to resolve, blame the president. President Andrew Johnson.
Source: Washington Post
May 23, 2019
For better or worse, there is no more important monument in any country than its money.
Source: Washington Post
May 23, 2019
Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.
