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: The Conversation
May 23, 2019
by Timothy Webster
World War II ended in 1945. But the world has never stopped debating its legacy and how to make restitution for the damage done to the war’s victims.
Source: Washington Post
May 22, 2019
The three young men, dubbed the Silver Spring Three, poured blood on draft cards in suburban Maryland.
Source: NPR
May 22, 2019
Soldiers brought in to excavate found undisputed evidence of a mass grave: skulls with bullet holes, shoes and tattered clothing worn on the last day of people's lives.
Source: Washington Post
May 22, 2019
She escaped slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, then led hundreds of other people to freedom.
Source: National Geographic
May 22, 2019
"This finding is also a critical piece of the story of Africatown, which was built by the resilient descendants of America’s last slave ship."
Source: KSMU
May 22, 2019
NPR's Cokie Roberts answers questions about women's voting rights and history.
Source: NY Times
May 22, 2019
As a presidential candidate in 2016, Mr. Trump criticized the Obama administration’s plans for the bill.
Source: The Conversation
May 22, 2019
by Edward Gitre
The novel idea of surveying GIs reflected the growing prestige of opinion polling and social surveying and democratic virtue.
Source: Smithsonian.com
May 21, 2019
Some argued that the site should be left to decay into ruins, but officials have decided to maintain it as a testament to the city’s dark history.
Source: NY Times
May 21, 2019
Two cultural projects that examine the Alabama city’s role in the civil rights movement are drawing throngs of visitors and encouraging a surge of downtown construction.
Source: The Atlantic
May 21, 2019
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
Source: New Yorker
May 20, 2019
Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.
Source: The Conversation
May 20, 2019
by Kenneth Seligson
While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica.
Source: Time
May 20, 2019
The history of Henry Cabot Lodge and literacy tests.
Source: NPR
May 20, 2019
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karissa Haugeberg, assistant professor of history at Tulane University, about what it was like to get an abortion before Roe v. Wade.
Source: NY Times
May 19, 2019
The historic aircraft are part of the “D-Day Squadron” that left Sunday for a weeklong, trans-Atlantic flight in preparation for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Source: Washington Post
May 19, 2019
Reagan’s legacy on abortion is far more complicated, and antiabortion advocates have long considered his actions a disappointment.
Source: NY Times
May 18, 2019
The three-paragraph letter — now valued between $25,000 and $35,000, according to the Virginia auction house — warned Lafayette, the French general who commanded troops in several Revolutionary War battles, of pending danger from the British.
Source: AP
May 18, 2019
“Museums preserve what’s important to society. They tell our stories, give historical context to contemporary issues and help us imagine a better future."
Source: The Post and Courier
May 17, 2019
The Make It Right Campaign helped bring down the Silent Sam Confederate statute in Chapel Hill, N.C., in August, and campaign supporters are eyeing nine more — including Charleston’s Calhoun monument.
